PESHAWAR: Pakistani police backed by American FBI agents arrested four men on Tuesday suspected of close ties to Osama bin Laden's al-Qaida network, said a report on Tuesday.
The four men, all from Afghanistan, were arrested in a three-hour raid at the Jalozai Refugee Camp, 45 kilometers (27 miles) east of Peshawar, they said.
Authorities seized documents, a computer and a mobile phone. Two passports also were confiscated, one from Afghanistan the other from Saudi Arabia, the police officials said.
The operation was carried out based on information provided by the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation, which has been cooperating with Pakistani officials in the war on terror, Pakistani officials said. It was unclear how many FBI agents took part in the raid, which used armored personnel carriers for security.
The names of two suspects, Sayed Abdur Rehman and Abdul Ghaffar, tallied with names of people on an FBI wanted list, a Pakistani security official in the operation said. The two others were identified as Akhtar Mohammad and Mohammad Idrees.
The Jalozai Refugee Camp is run by the Itehad-E-Islami Afghanistan group, made up of former Afghan fighters who fought against the Soviet invasion in the 1980s. |
