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To: IQBAL LATIF who wrote (46767)	8/1/2004 3:59:00 AM
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Khalfan’s arrest can lead to Osama: Faisal ISLAMABAD: Pakistani investigators have obtained some good leads from an arrested Tanzanian militant suspected of involvement in the 1998 bombings of two US embassies in east Africa, Interior Minister Faisal Saleh Hayat said Saturday. Ahmed Khalfan Ghailani, a Tanzanian on the FBI’s most-wanted list, was captured after a fierce eight-hour shootout with security forces in Gujrat on July 25. "He (Ghailani) has given us some good information during investigation," Faisal said. Ghailani was caught hiding with four men, three women including his Uzbek wife, and six children in a house in Gujrat. He is accused by the US of involvement in the August 1998 car bombings of the US embassies in Dar es Salaam and Nairobi. The attacks have been blamed on the al-Qaeda. The Nairobi attack killed 213 people and injured more than 5,000. Eleven people were killed in the almost simultaneous attack on the Dar es Salaam embassy. Ghailani was indicted in New York in Dec 1998 for his alleged role in the Dar es Salaam attack and now carries a five million dollar bounty on his head. His trail went cold after 1998. He is reported to have hidden in both Afghanistan and Liberia. A Pakistani security officials said he had quietly moved to Gujrat around four weeks ago. "This is a very significant capture because he was an important player in the al-Qaeda hierarchy," Faisal said on Friday, calling the arrest "a phenomenal success in the international fight against terrorism." Ghailani’s capture is a serious blow to al-Qaeda and certainly weakens the network further." Faisal was confident his arrest could shed light on the whereabouts of al-Qaeda chief bin Laden. "Every high profile arrest certainly opens new avenues and a new approach towards achieving the ultimate objective of capturing bin Laden," the minister said. Ghailani is now being interrogated by Pakistani intelligence agencies, and Islamabad will consider handing him over to the US if it seeks extradition, the minister said. "We will certainly consider any US request for his custody ... once we have concluded our own investigations."