Pakistan On A Roll! Mor Al Queda Arrests Made

[Annie]

http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=sto.../wl_nm/security_pakistan_alqaeda_dc&printer=1

Pakistan Arrests Two More Al Qaeda Suspects

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ISLAMABAD (Reuters) - Pakistan has arrested two more foreigners believed to be members of al Qaeda in the last 24 hours, local intelligence officials said Tuesday.

They were the latest in a series of arrests of members of the radical Islamic network in Pakistan, which U.S. officials have said led to information about a plot to bomb buildings in Washington and in the New York area.

In the latest arrests, one man was apprehended at a bus stop in the Hafizabad town in Punjab province, but officials were unsure of his nationality.

"He first said he was from Yemen but later changed his statement to say he was Egyptian," one of the officials, who asked not to be named, told Reuters. "We are still checking his nationality. He does not have a passport."

In another swoop, authorities arrested a foreign al Qaeda suspect along with two Pakistanis who were traveling to the eastern city of Lahore, also in Punjab, from the nearby town of Sheikupura Monday night.

No other details were immediately available about the arrests, which follow the capture of at least two important al Qaeda members last month.

Pakistan also arrested a policeman in Lahore over the weekend for suspected links with militant groups, interior ministry spokesman Abdul Rauf Chaudhry told Reuters.

 

[Democrat4Bush]

I thought we had no allies?

 

[Annie]

Well, without France, ya know, ummmm :huh:

 

[insein]

With allies like the french, who needs enemies?

 

[Annie]

Looks like a biggie:

http://www.boston.com/news/world/as...eda_suspects_arrested_in_sweep_pakistan_says/

Two key Qaeda suspects arrested in sweep, Pakistan says
US has bounty on one detainee
By Paul Haven, Associated Press | August 4, 2004

ISLAMABAD, Pakistan -- Government forces have arrested two "high-level" Al Qaeda suspects, one with a multimillion dollar US bounty on his head, widening a sweep against Al Qaeda's vast web of operatives that has netted at least six suspects, officials said yesterday.

Among those detained in the past two days were a policeman accused of passing information to Al Qaeda militants, a Syrian arrested at a bus stop, and a man carrying suspicious documents who was seized trying to fly out of the country.

Officials said the suspects, who were not identified, are believed to be linked to a militant already in custody who provided crucial intelligence leading to the arrest of a top fugitive last week and to Washington's issuing a warning Sunday of terror threats to US financial institutions.

Pakistan's interior minister said the arrest of the high-ranking targets in eastern Punjab province was a major break only days after agents caught Ahmed Khalfan Ghailani, the Tanzanian sought by US officials for the 1998 bombings of US embassies in East Africa.

"In addition to Ahmed Khalfan Ghailani, whose bounty was $25 million, we have captured another most-wanted suspect with a bounty on him running into the millions of dollars," Faisal Saleh Hayyat told reporters in the capital.

He said both men were of African origin but refused to identify them or their nationalities.....