Time reports..Abu Zubaydah, one of Osama bin Laden's top deputies, is being held at a US naval facility on the Indian Ocean island of Diego Garcia, Time magazine reported on Sunday.
Zubaydah is the highest-ranking al-Qaeda member known to have been taken into US custody during Washington's war against terrorism triggered by the September 11 attacks on the United States.
US officials, who have been interrogating him for months, have steadfastly refused to disclose where he was being held. Before his arrest in Pakistan in April, Zubaydah, was thought to be the new chief of operations of the al-Qaeda network, organising remnants of the organisation to carry out further attacks against the United States.
Time, citing a source familiar with US anti-terror operations, said that Zubaydah was recently transferred from a US Navy ship to the American base in Diego Garcia. US authorities have been interrogating him since his capture and have issued a series of warnings about possible al-Qaeda threats against US interests as a result of the information gained. The information has led to a string of alerts about possible threats to the Statue of Liberty, apartment buildings, banks in the northeastern states, supermarkets and shopping malls. |
