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To: George Coyne who wrote (710789)	11/3/2005 10:48:24 AM
From: paret	Respond to of 769667

Looks like we captured another one of Michael Moore and Cindy Sheehan's Freedom fighters. Key al-Qaida figure reportedly captured Suspect is a leader of European terror network, officials tell NBC News Mustafa Setmariam Nasar is shown in an undated file photo distributed by the U.S. Rewards for Justice program in connection with a $5 million reward offered for his capture. Rewardsforjustice.net By Lisa Myers, Jim Popkin and Robert Windrem NBC News Nov. 3, 2005 WASHINGTON - A key figure in al-Qaida’s terror network in Europe with a $5 million bounty offered by U.S. authorities on his head has been arrested, U.S. counterterrorism officials tell NBC News. Two U.S. officials, speaking on condition of anonymity, said that the alleged terrorist, Mustafa Setmariam Nasar, also known as Abu Musab al-Suri, is an expert in explosives and chemicals who trained recruits at al-Qaida terror camps in Afghanistan before the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks in the United States. Nasar was born in Syria but is married to a Spanish woman and has Spanish nationality. He has traveled extensively in Europe and has militant connections in Europe, Pakistan and elsewhere, and security experts believe his arrest could prove to be an intelligence bonanza for the CIA and other U.S. and European counterterrorism agencies. Nasar also is a “pen jihadist” whose writings carry great weight in the militant underworld, the officials said. He has written extensively on the Internet of his desire to use chemical or biological weapons against the United States, an effort he has described as “dirty bombs for a dirty nation." $5 million reward Last year, the U.S. government announced a $5 million reward for information leading to the capture of Nasar. In September 2003, Nasar was among 35 people named in an indictment handed down by a Spanish magistrate for terrorist activities connected to al-Qaida. Nasar is alleged to have close ties with the suspected leader of the terror group’s cell in Spain, a Syrian-born Spaniard named Imad Yarkas. Some reports have indicated that Nasar was involved in the March 11, 2004, mass-transit bombings that killed 191 people in Madrid, Spain, though the U.S. officials have said it's not clear what role he might have played. Nasar's name also has been linked to the July 7 terror bombings in London, but the Metropolitan Police and Home Office were unable to offer immediate comment on British interest in Nasar in connection with the July 7 attack, which killed 56 people including four bombers. The circumstances of Nasar’s arrest were not immediately clear. The Associated Press reported Thursday that a man believed to be Nasar was captured in a raid this week in Quetta, the capital of Pakistan’s southwestern Baluchistan province. A second suspect, identified as Jaish-e-Mohammed, a Pakistani Islamic militant group allegedly linked to al-Qaida, also was arrested and a third suspect, a Saudi named Shaikh Ali Mohammed al-Salim, had been killed during the raid. The AP quoted Pakistani intelligence officials as saying that al-Salim had been living with the man believed to be Nasar. Report on arrest said inaccurate In addition to confirming Nasar’s identity, the U.S. counterterrorism officials, as well as Pakistani government officials, told NBC News that that report on the timing of the arrest was inaccurate. They said Nasar was arrested prior to Monday in Quetta, in a raid was the result of intelligence information that pointed to an al-Qaida safe house there. Pakistan, a key U.S. ally in its war on terrorism, says it has arrested more than 700 al-Qaida suspects since the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks in America, and has handed most of the suspects to the United States. The last reported arrest of a suspected key al-Qaida figure in Pakistan was in May, when Abu Farraj al-Libbi, the alleged mastermind of assassination attempts against Pakistani President Gen. Pervez Musharraf, was nabbed after a shootout in a northwestern town. He was later handed over to the United States.