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More al-Qaida suspects seized in terror raids across Pakistan
Pakistani soldiers swooped on two dozen suspected al-Qaida fighters after interrogating the man believed to be the terror network’s third in command, officials said yesterday.
Abu Faraj al-Libbi, captured this week, is thought to be al-Qaida’s operations chief, and security forces in Pakistan said he could also provide leads to the whereabouts of the network’s leader, Osama bin Laden, and his deputy, Ayman al-Zawahri. Both are believed to slip frequently between Afghanistan and Pakistan.
Yesterday, raids in Lahore, the capital of the eastern province of Punjab, Peshawar, capital of North-West Frontier Province, and the Bajaur tribal area, resulted in the arrest of more than 20 other al-Qaida suspects, as well as the seizure of guns and grenades.
Analysts said the success of the operations justified Pakistan’s assertion that it was winning the war against terrorism. “From the arrests it looks as if Pakistan has been quite successful in containing al-Qaida activity on its own soil,” said Khalid Mahmud of the Institute of Regional Studies in Islamabad.
Bin Laden aide had ten-strong British network
Al-Qaeda’S third-in-command, being interrogated after his capture in Pakistan, was in close contact with ten militants working for him in Britain, according to investigators.
So far Abu Farj al-Libbi has refused to reveal the whereabouts of Osama bin Laden and his key accomplices.
His British cell is said to include a radical cleric and a terror suspect awaiting trial but the eight other men are still at large.
Their role was allegedly to carry cash around the world for the network using a number of aliases. Counter-terror officials are not certain of the identity of the eight suspects, who are said to be of Pakistani and North African origin. British officials hope that they will eventually be allowed to question al-Libbi.
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