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To: IQBAL LATIF who wrote (41296)	10/30/2001 10:08:17 AM
From: b-witch	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 50167

Ike, Have you seen this from the Foreign Affairs thread, #8204? Do you have any comment? Pakistan hands over three nuclear scientists to US Islamabad, October 30: Pakistan has handed over three retired nuclear scientists accused of having links with terrorist mastermind Osama bin Laden to US authorities for investigations, media reports said on Tuesday. Among those handed over is Sultan Bashiruddin Mahmood, Pakistan's retired top nuclear scientist. Mahmood, along with two of his retired colleagues -former chief engineer of Pakistan Atomic Energy Commission (PAEC) Abdul Majeed, and former PAEC scientist Mirza Yousaf - have been handed over to a joint team of FBI and CIA officials for further investigations, The Pakistan Observer daily reported. Quoting credible diplomatic and official sources, the paper said Mahmood was questioned by Pakistani intelligence agencies for alleged links with Taliban militia and Osama bin Laden. He was released on October 26 after being "cleared" by security agencies, but was again picked up from his home by security agencies on the night of October 28. Quoting sources close to Mahmood's family, the paper said the scientist returned home in a precarious state of mental and physical health. During the time spent with his family after being released by the security agencies, Mahmood appeared nervous, conspicuously quiet and displayed signs of extreme stress, the report said. "He did not talk much. Throughout the two and half day sat home he was constantly watched and nobody was allowed to meet him", it said. Mahmood, who was again picked up on October 28, told his family while leaving that if they did not hear from him in a few days, they must deem him dead, the paper said. expressindia.com

To: IQBAL LATIF who wrote (41296)	10/30/2001 10:32:45 AM
From: Pam Wooten	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 50167

Ike, It never ceases to amaze me, the speculation/lies that are printed/spoken in the media and then quietly retracted later when the damage has been done. I guess they will just have to wait to see the results of Bush/Musharraf team to finally know the truth. On another matter .... The round up is continuing. Cheers, Pam (10-30) 06:06 PST LONDON (AP) -- An Egyptian man arrested in London last week has been charged with conspiring in the murder of the leader of Afghanistan's northern alliance, according to court papers made public Tuesday. Yasser al-Sirri, 38, was charged in the death of Ahmed Shah Massood, the charismatic military leader of the coalition of forces battling Afghanistan's Taliban. Massood was mortally wounded in a suicide bombing two days before the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks in the United States. "On or before Sept. 9, 2001, (al-Sirri) conspired with others unknown to murder" Massood, the court papers charged. Al-Sirri was also accused of soliciting support for a banned organization -- the Egyptian radical group al-Gamaa al-Islamiyya -- raising funds for terrorism, stirring up racial hatred and making available property for the purposes of terrorism. Al-Sirri had been scheduled to appear at Belmarsh Magistrates' Court on Tuesday, but the hearing was delayed because he was ill. His lawyer, Gareth Pierce, told district judge Timothy Workman that al-Sirri was suffering from "migraine and sickness." It was unclear when the hearing would be held. Massood, a veteran guerrilla commander often called the "Lion of the Panjshir" because of his military prowess against the former Soviet Union, had become the symbol of opposition to Afghanistan's ruling Taliban, which is now targeted by a U.S.-led bombing campaign for harboring terror suspect Osama bin Laden. Massood, 48, died of his wounds on Sept. 15. He was defense minister in the government of Burhanuddin Rabbani until they were both thrown out of Kabul in 1996 by invading Taliban troops. He moved quickly to rally warring factions against the Taliban, forming an alliance which has fought for five years to prevent the Taliban from gaining full control of Afghanistan. Al-Sirri's arrest under the Terrorism Act was not directly linked to the Sept. 11 attacks, police said. Prosecutors charged him with publishing "threatening and abusive material ... intended to stir up racial hatred" and having "invited persons unknown to provide money intending it should be used or having reasonable cause to suspect it would be used for the purposes of terrorism." Prosecutors also alleged he was involved in an arrangement that may have resulted in an unknown amount of money being used for terrorism. Al-Sirri has lived in Britain since 1984 and runs a center that acts as a public relations contact for Islamic fundamentalist groups. It recently circulated a statement by Mohammed Atef, third-ranking leader of bin Laden's al-Qaida network. Al-Sirri has declined to say how he obtained the statement. He has been sentenced to death in Egypt, where security officials allege he was a top official in the military wing of Islamic Jihad, the terrorist group blamed for the 1981 assassination of President Anwar Sadat and a series of assassination attempts in the 1990s.