War of nerves, what you see is not what is happening, in a classic trap of high espionage and close follow up. I assume that Al Qaeda operatives are being caged with some very quality followup by the joint work of CIA and ISI, look at this story..
Khalid Shaikh was arrested in mid-January,
declared captive on March 1
By Azfar-ul-Ashfaque
KARACHI: The man who managed to escape from the house in Gulshan-e-Maymar during a joint raid carried out by the Inter Services Intelligence (ISI) and police was Khalid Shaikh Muhammad and he was caught in the mid of January in Karachi, highly placed intelligence sources disclosed it to The News.
On January 9 two Al-Qaeda activists, Abu Hamza and Abu Omar, were arrested from a house of a woman leader of Jamaat-e-Islami in Gulshan-e-Maymar area.
Informed sources said Khalid Shaikh was also hiding in that house along with two other militants and managed to escape as Abu Omar and Abu Hamza gave cover to him by opening fire and throwing hand grenades on police which made easy his escape.
At that time the police sources said that one man made his escape owing to the slackness of the Rangers who were assigned to cordon off the backyard of the house during the operation. But as the encounter started the Ranger personnel escaped from the scene to save their lives.
Initially, the sources said, Abu Hamza and Abu Omar disclosed the identity of the fleeing man as Ameer Mouavia but later they retracted from their statements and confessed that they were residing with Khalid Shaikh Muhammad.
Pakistani intelligence officials kept such disclosure secret and worked hard to nab the fleeing man. During the raid the law-enforcement agencies had recovered three AK-47 assault rifles, five hand grenades, a satellite phone, a laptop, few CDs, some books, about one million rupees and US$ 25,000 from the house.
Sources said Khalid Shaikh who was armed with an Ak-47 assault rifle suffered bullet injuries while fleeing. He had thrown away his rifle in Gulshan-e-Maymar, which was later recovered from the bushes behind a government school.
Well-placed sources said ISI managed to trace Khalid Shaikh after hectic efforts of more than 72 hours after the Gulshan-e-Maymar encounter by using sniffer dogs and the data of the laptop. They keep a vigil on Khalid Shaikh who got refugee in a house in the outskirts of Karachi.
According to a senior officer, Khalid Shaikh was treated in that house and one of his hosts used to buy medicines for him from a medical store situated miles away from that house. The ISI waited for the right time and then caught him after four days.
Soon after his arrest he was shifted to a safe house in Karachi where he was investigated by high-ranking military officials. His arrest was kept secret from the present government and only a few military aides of President General Pervez Musharraf had knowledge about Khalid's arrest.
Pakistani agencies thoroughly interrogated Khalid Shaikh, particularly in connection with any of his possible links and any meeting with Osama bin Laden in Pakistan or Afghanistan. A senior security official disclosed that Khalid Shaikh had no knowledge about the presence of Bin Laden in Pakistan.
Intelligence sources said that Pakistani officials raided a house in Rawalpindi but Khalid was not arrested from there. However, the raid was conducted on Khalid's pointation.
However, the news of Khalid Shaikh's arrest was leaked when he was handed over to the United States authorities on March 1. "He was handed over to the American CIA officials on March 1 and they had leaked the news to the western media," sources said, adding that local investigators had captured many Al-Qaeda activists during the month-long investigations with Khalid Shaikh Muhammad. As a matter of fact, according to the official version Khalid Shaikh was arrested from Rawalpindi and not from Karachi. |
