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To: IQBAL LATIF who wrote (46790)	8/3/2004 6:23:35 PM
From: IQBAL LATIF	Respond to of 50167

In the past 72 hours, Pakistani officials made several more arrests of alleged Al-Qaeda members. Pakistani Officials do not provide the identities of the men charged, with the exception of a Syrian. These arrests follow the recent capture of Ahmed Ghaliani, who was wanted for the embassy bombings in Africa and also the capture of man responsible for the raised threat level in the U.S.A. The men arrested are said to have ties with known Al-Qaeda members. It is being stated that two of the men captured are high ranking Al-Qaeda members with bounties on their heads. original news source: ap.tbo.com One of the men arrested identified himself as a Syrian named Juma Ibrahim. He was taken in Sunday in Hafizabad, a town near the eastern city of Lahore, said district police chief Aslam Ghauri. He said the man told authorities that he was in the town for business, but had no references and could not say who he was meeting with, Ghauri said. The man has been turned over to Inter-Services Intelligence, Pakistan's spy agency, Ghauri said. The senior government official said another man had been arrested trying to board a plane in Lahore with several questionable documents. He would give no details. "Yes, we have made several arrests of al-Qaida linked people," said the official. It was not clear where the other arrest was made or how significant the suspects are. The official said they were believed linked to other al-Qaida suspects taken in recently, including a computer expert arrested July 13 that has been identified as Mohammad Naeem Noor Khan, also known as Abu Talha. Information provided by Khan, as well as another al-Qaida suspect, Ahmed Khalfan Ghailani, a Tanzanian arrested July 25, was a major factor in the decision by U.S. Homeland Security Secretary Tom Ridge to issue a warning about a possible al-Qaida attack on prominent financial institutions in New York, Washington and Newark, New Jersey. Pakistan is definitely a hotbed of terrorism and should be the focus of the War on Terrorism, along with Syria, Iran and Saudi Arabia. However of all the countries guilty of allowing extreme ideology to influence their masses, Pakistan seems to be making the greatest effort of fighting it. Musharraf is truly our ally in this fight, but how long will Musharraf remain in power? Assassination attempts have been made against him and his cabinet, and it is only a matter of time, before a change in the political atmosphere in the country occurs. How long can we count on Pakistan's alliance and what happens when we don't have it anymore? Posted by: worldwatcher On: Tue August, 3 2004 @ 01:54 GMT atsnn.com

To: IQBAL LATIF who wrote (46790)	8/3/2004 6:27:01 PM
From: IQBAL LATIF	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 50167

Breaking news...............Pakistan's "friends", a reference to its close war on terrorism ally the United States. Two top key S. African terrorists held in Pakistani province ISLAMABAD: Two South Africans in Pakistani custody have told interrogators they had planned to attack tourist sites in Johannesburg, a security official said Tuesday. "They had hatched a plot to carry out terrorist attacks on Johannesburg's main tourist sites," the official, who is familiar with the interrogation, told. The pair -- Abu Bakar and Zubair Ismail -- were arrested last week in the eastern Pakistani city of Gujrat along with Tanzanian Al-Qaeda operative Ahmed Khalfan Ghailani, indicted by the United States over the 1998 bombings of US embassies in Nairobi and Dar es Salaam. Bakar, a doctor, and Ismail, described as new recruits to Osama bin Laden's terror network, had arrived in Pakistan's second largest city of Lahore early July, the official said on condition of anonymity. They joined Ghailani in Gujrat, 160 kilometers (100 miles) southeast of Islamabad, and together hid out in a rented house. The house was stormed by police commandoes on July 25 and after an eight hour shootout the pair were arrested with Ghailani, his Uzbek wife, three other women and some Pakistani "facilitators." Maps, foreign currency, computers, computer discs and Arabic-language documents were found in his hideout, another security official said. Information Minister Sheikh Rashid said the information on the computer was "valuable" and had been passed on to Pakistan's "friends", a reference to its close war on terrorism ally the United States.