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To: IQBAL LATIF who wrote (43781)	3/15/2003 6:27:45 PM
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The News..Three al-Qaeda operatives held in Lahore ISLAMABAD: Pakistani authorities said on Saturday they had arrested a leading al-Qaeda member, Moroccan national, Yasir al-Jaziri in Lahore. An intelligence source said the capture was made thanks to information received from another senior al-Qaeda figure, Khalid Sheikh Muhammad, who was arrested in Rawalpindi two weeks ago and is now in US custody. Khalid is often portrayed as number three in al-Qaeda, behind Osama bin Laden and his deputy Ayman Al Zawahiri, and is suspected of being a leading figure behind the September 11, 2001, attacks on the United States. "He (al-Jaziri) is less important than Khalid Sheikh Muhammad but he is quite an important person," Secretary Interior Ministry Tasneem Noorani told Reuters. Noorani said al-Jaziri had been picked up in Gulberg suburb of Lahore on Saturday evening. Information Minister Sheikh Rashid Ahmed said al-Jaziri was perhaps one level down from Muhammad in the organisation. "This is the biggest catch since Khalid Sheikh," the intelligence source said, adding a second man, an Afghan called Gulzeb, alias Jaffar, had also been captured. The intelligence source said a third man, a Pakistani who fought with the Taliban in Afghanistan, was also arrested in a second raid in the Gulberg area later on Saturday night. Al-Jaziri is thought to be involved in al-Qaeda's business operations, and the intelligence source described him as a US-educated "computer whiz". Intelligence sources said local experts were still trying to crack the security codes on two laptops and some CDs which were found at the one-room apartment. Another source said travellers cheques and maps of "various installations" around the country had also been seized. There have been a series of bomb attacks, mainly on Western and Christian targets in Pakistan since September 11, 2001, and al Qaeda has been linked to several of those attacks. "We were chasing him for some three months and this raid was conducted along with American FBI," one source said. The FBI is helping Pakistan track down al-Qaeda members who may be hiding in the country, but Pakistani authorities deny FBI agents actually take part in raids.