{"id":77,"date":"2004-08-03T14:18:34","date_gmt":"2004-08-03T19:18:34","guid":{"rendered":"\/?p=77"},"modified":"2004-08-26T23:10:38","modified_gmt":"2004-08-27T04:10:38","slug":"pakistanis-on-a-roll-in-terror-arrests","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/targetcentermass.net\/?p=77","title":{"rendered":"Pakistanis on a Roll in Terror Arrests"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Pakistan continued its hot streak as they <a href=\"http:\/\/www.reuters.com\/newsArticle.jhtml?type=worldNews&#038;storyID=5861649\" target=\"_blank\">nabbed two more with suspected ties to al Queda<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Pakistan arrested a suspected member of al Qaeda with a multi-million dollar price on his head and several others, government officials said Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>Arrests over the last three days in Pakistan follow on from an earlier sweep for militants which led to information of a possible attack in the United States and a subsequent rise in the U.S. state of alert.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We have arrested in the past 24 hours from Punjab another two people of African origin who in our view have links to al Qaeda,&#8221; Interior Minister Faisal Saleh Hayat told Reuters.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Before that another person was arrested who has a multi-billion dollar bounty on his head,&#8221; the minister added, but he declined to give any further details on the big catch.<\/p>\n<p>The crackdown on militants in Pakistan has apparently gathered pace since the capture of a computer engineer who acted as an e-mail postman for the groups by distributing coded messages. The New York Times said he was arrested in mid-July. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>This is the nature of the fight against a cell-based, loosely-organized outfit like al Queda, as any break in information can open up a few threads in the terror web.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pakistan continued its hot streak as they nabbed two more with suspected ties to al Queda. Pakistan arrested a suspected member of al Qaeda with a multi-million dollar price on his head and several others, government officials said Tuesday. Arrests over the last three days in Pakistan follow on from an earlier sweep for militants [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-77","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","category-war-on-terror"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/targetcentermass.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/targetcentermass.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/targetcentermass.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/targetcentermass.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/targetcentermass.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=77"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/targetcentermass.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/targetcentermass.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=77"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/targetcentermass.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=77"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/targetcentermass.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=77"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}