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To: NickSE who wrote (78730)	3/1/2003 2:34:55 PM
From: greenspirit	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

Proving we can move on multiple fronts with assistance from our friends around the world. This big news was just released! Pakistan Says Arrests September 11 Mastermind story.news.yahoo.com. ISLAMABAD (Reuters) - Pakistan said it arrested on Saturday the suspected mastermind behind the September 11 attacks on the United States, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed. "We have finally apprehended Khalid Sheikh Mohammed," presidential spokesman Rashid Qureshi told Reuters. "It was the work of Pakistani intelligence agencies...It is a big achievement. He is the kingpin of al Qaeda." Mohammed was one of three people detained in a raid on a house near Islamabad earlier on Saturday. In June 2002, U.S. investigators identified Mohammed as the probable mastermind behind the September 11 attacks on New York and Washington. He was indicted in the United States in 1996 for his alleged role in a plot to blow up American civilian airliners over the Pacific. Kuwaiti-born Mohammed is a relative of Ramzi Ahmed Yousef, now serving a life sentence for involvement in the 1993 World Trade Center bombing. Pakistani security agencies have been hunting al Qaeda members with the help of U.S. intelligence agents since the ousting of the hardline Islamic Taliban government in neighboring Afghanistan in late 2001. Hundreds of al Qaeda militants and their Taliban allies are believed to have crossed into Pakistan since U.S.-led forces began hunting for them in Afghanistan after the end of Taliban rule.