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To: IQBAL LATIF who wrote (42944)	6/27/2002 6:07:50 PM
From: IQBAL LATIF	Respond to of 50167

Pakistan government has handed over to the US authorities some 327 suspected Al-Qaeda members since the launch of the US-led anti-terror campaign in Afghanistan last year. Senior defence sources told Dawn Wednesday that over the last eight months Pakistani authorities apprehended a total of 378 suspected Al-Qaeda associates of whom 327 are now in the American custody. Military intelligence sources confirmed the total tally and said Yemenis topped the list of those arrested. There are a total of 87 Yemenis and seven French nationals among the 327 suspected Al-Qaeda associates, besides an undisclosed number of Sudanese, Saudi Arabian, Palestinian, Syrian, Libyan, Moroccan and Chechnyan nationals. Sources said these Al-Qaeda members were transported by the American authorities to some unknown foreign location where they were under interrogation. Pakistani authorities, who are working in close co-operation with the US security agencies, made these arrests during a series of search operations. These raids were conducted by special forces in collaboration with the military intelligence in various parts of the country, including the tribal areas. The highest ranking Al-Qaeda associate apprehended so far by the Pakistani authorities is Abu Zubaydah, considered to be the right hand man of Osama bin Laden. Zubaydah's capture in Faisalabad on March 28 during a midnight raid was the result of a joint Pakistan-US intelligence operation. He is now in the US custody at an undisclosed place and reportedly under intense interrogation. Pakistani troops are deployed in thousands along the country's tribal belt bordering Afghanistan to nab Al-Qaeda members who may have taken refuge there following the US-led military operation in Afghanistan.

To: IQBAL LATIF who wrote (42944)	6/27/2002 7:15:20 PM
From: IQBAL LATIF	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 50167

Karachi police got a major breakthrough in the investigation of the car bomb blast outside the US Consulate General Karachi on June 14, as two arrested hardcore activists of banned militant outfit Lashkar-e-Jhangvi, Akram Lahori and Attaur Rehman alias Naim Bukhari, confessed to their involvement in the blast, sources said on Thursday. Well-placed sources told The News that an official announcement in this regard would be made in next two or three days, probably by Federal Interior Minister Lt-Gen (retd) Moinuddin Haider in Karachi. It is reliably learnt that two different teams of US Federal Bureau of Investigations (FBI) and a Pakistani Joint Interrogation Team (JIT) interrogated both Akram Lahori and Attaur Rehman and declared them "black" in US Consulate General bomb blast case. Sources disclosed that during investigation, both the accused reportedly confessed to their links with al-Qaeda network and Taliban. The accused persons also revealed to the investigators their future targets, the sources said. However, after a passage of more than 10 days, neither the Capital City Police nor the Crime Investigation Department (CID) has accepted the arrest of the two accused in any case. The sources said Akram Lahori and Attaur Rehman alias Naim Bukhari were taken to Punjab from Sindh; and on their pointation, a joint team of Punjab police and FBI conducted raids at several places and arrested dozens of activists of Sipah-e-Sahaba Pakistan and Lashkar-e-Jhangvi. Akram Lahori had been arrested by CID and Attaur Rehman alias Naim Bukhari by the Field Wing of Pakistan Rangers. The sources said that some 134 new AK-47 rifles, dozens of rocket launchers, heavy quantity of explosive material and other weapons were recovered by police and Rangers in Karachi on the pointation of the two accused.