Pakistan Arrests Al-Qaeda-Linked Leader in Karachi, AP Says

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June 15 (Bloomberg) -- Pakistan police said the suspected leader of Lashkar-e-Jhangvi, a group linked to the al-Qaeda terrorist organization, is among 11 people detained in the city of Karachi, the Associated Press reported.

Police said Daud Badani is a brother-in-law of Ramzi Yousef, who is serving a life sentence in the U.S. over the 1993 World Trade Center bombings, AP reported. Badani is accused of organizing attacks in the southwestern city of Quetta. Badani's family denied the charges and said he isn't Yousef's brother-in- law, AP said. The 11 suspects were caught at the weekend.

The Pakistani army said it completed a five-day hunt for al- Qaeda and Taliban suspects in the tribal region of South Waziristan, on the border with Afghanistan, at the weekend. There were 55 suspected gunmen among 72 people killed in the operation, AP cited Major General Shaukat Sultan, an army spokesman, as saying. Some were non-Pakistanis, he said, without elaborating.

Al-Qaeda and Taliban fighters fled into Pakistan from Afghanistan to escape the U.S.-led war against terrorism that started in 2001. The army's latest operation is a ``large blow against terrorism,'' AP cited Lieutenant Colonel Tucker Mansager, a U.S. army spokesman in Afghanistan, as saying.

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Pakistan Detains Ex-Qaeda Head's Nephew and 9 With Terror Ties
By SALMAN MASOOD

Published: June 14, 2004


SLAMABAD, Pakistan, June 13 — Pakistani officials said Sunday that the government had arrested the nephew of Khalid Shaikh Mohammed, Al Qaeda's former head of operations.

Separately, the government detained nine people said to be part of a newly uncovered Qaeda-linked group responsible for a series of terror attacks.

The interior and information ministers announced that Mr. Mohammed's nephew, Mosabir Aroochi, was arrested this weekend in the port city of Karachi. Sheik Rashid Ahmed, the information minister, said a $1 million reward had been posted for Mr. Aroochi's arrest.

Mr. Aroochi does not appear on the F.B.I.'s list of its 22 most wanted terrorism suspects. Mr. Mohammed, who is suspected of having played an important operational role in the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks, was arrested in Pakistan in March 2003.

The arrests came as the Pakistani Army had been scouting for hundreds of foreign militants in the isolated tribal areas of northwestern Pakistan. That hunt follows five terrorist attacks in five weeks in Karachi, the country's largest city and commercial hub.

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Pakistan security swoop nets top al Qa'eda suspect

The men had been trained in the tribal region of Waziristan, bordering Afghanistan, where for the past five days Pakistani troops have been fighting local tribesmen and al Qa'eda militants. At least 50 people have been killed, including 15 soldiers.

There have been a spate of terrorist and sectarian attacks across Pakistan in recent weeks, which have created a major credibility problem for President Pervaiz Musharraf.

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Karachi corps commander’s would-be assassins caught

* Rashid says 11 to 12 terrorists arrested
* Khalid Sheikh Mohammad’s nephew among those arrested

Staff Report

ISLAMABAD: Security forces have arrested the suspected terrorists involved in Thursday’s attack on the Karachi corps commander’s motorcade.

Information Minister Sheikh Rashid Ahmad told Daily Times that the culprits belong to a new militant organisation called Jundullah (God’s Army). Seven soldiers, three policemen and a bystander were killed when unidentified attackers ambushed Corps Commander Lieutenant General Ahsan Saleem Hayat’s motorcade near Clifton Bridge on Thursday. The information minister said that Attaullah, naib ameer of the organization, has been arrested along with 11 or 12 other terrorists of Jundullah. The minister said that the arrested men had “definite links” with the terrorists hiding in South Waziristan. “During questioning, they confessed receiving training from Uzbek terrorists hiding in Wana,” he said.

AFP adds: Security forces have arrested a nephew of a top Al Qaeda operative and several other foreigners blamed for a series of attacks including an assassination attempt on a military commander, Interior Minister Faisal Saleh Hayat said on Sunday. The forces arrested an Al Qaeda operative who is the nephew of Khalid Sheikh Mohammad, and had a million dollar reward on his head, the interior minister said.

Mohammad, one of the chief planners of the September 11, 2001 attacks on the United States, was arrested in Pakistan in March 2003 in a raid from Rawalpindi. Hayat identified the man as Mosad Aruchi.

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