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To: IQBAL LATIF who wrote (49631)	1/20/2006 4:23:59 AM
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Hunt for clerics present at al-Qaeda dinner continues PESHAWAR: Security officials continued their hunt on Thursday for two pro-Taliban clerics who dined with top al-Qaida operatives the night of last week’s US missile strike, hoping to glean new details about the attack and who was killed. The officials say Faqir Mohammed and Liaqat Ali were likely responsible for burying, and concealing, the bodies of as many as four al-Qaeda operatives killed in the US assault that targeted, but missed, the network’s No 2 leader, Ayman al-Zawahri. Faqir reportedly returned near the scene of the attack in tribal region two days later to lead an anti-US protest. "The government is actively hunting for them," said a senior government official with high-level access to information on the Damadola attack. "Once we have them in custody, more will definitely be revealed" about that night, said the official, who declined to be identified because of the sensitive nature of the investigation. Faqir and Ali’s movements since the attack make them prime suspects in the supposed concealment of the bodies, officials say. They were both in Damadola at the time of the pre-dawn assault, but escaped unscathed, according to intelligence officials. The officials were also investigating the identities of three al-Qaeda militants reportedly killed in the air strike. One of the dead was said to be Midhat Mursi, 52, also known as Abu Khabab al-Masri, a top Al-Qaeda bomb maker. Another was reported to be Abu Obaidah al-Masri, Al-Qaeda’s chief of operations for the eastern Afghan province of Kunar. The third was Abdur Rehman al-Maghribi, the Moroccan son-in-law of Zawahri and the head of al-Qaeda’s media operations, the Pakistani media reported.