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4 Al Qaeda suspects arrested (Turks in Pakistan)
Dawn ^ | April 05, 2008 | Saleem Shahid

Posted on 04/05/2008 4:14:22 AM PDT by csvset

QUETTA, April 4: Four foreigners suspected of having links with Al Qaeda have been arrested from the Dera Murad Jamali area of Nasirabad district. They were travelling in a Peshawar-bound bus.

“The suspects are Turkish nationals. They were going to Jacobabad when security officials intercepted the bus on Thursday night,” sources told Dawn. They were handed over to the authorities in Quetta for interrogation.

According to sources, the bus coming from Quetta was intercepted by the Frontier Corps personnel on a tip-off. A large quantity of high explosives, 1,600 rounds of sub-machine gun, a laptop, 10 Jihadi books, CDs and a digital camera were found in their possession.

Fake Afghan refugee cards and dollars and riyals were also seized.

The sources said that three of the suspects carried Turkish passports, while the fourth man, also a Turkish national, had no travel documents.

“They might have links with Al Qaeda,” the sources said, adding that initial investigations suggested that they were planning to attack an airbase in Jacobabad being used by the US for providing logistic support to its forces in the region.


TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: alqaeda; alqaida; captured; foiled; globaljihad; gwot; jihad; pakistan; turkey
I wonder who dropped the dime on them? Fake IDs. Probably hoping to gain access to the base as worker bees and then kill innocent victims.
1 posted on 04/05/2008 4:14:23 AM PDT by csvset
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To: Cindy; Dog

Four scumbags caught prior to carrying out attack.


2 posted on 04/05/2008 4:15:46 AM PDT by csvset
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To: csvset

funny that the only teerorists they can find in Pakistan are Turks. Sure, Bin Laden, his cronies, and a great deal of the Taliban are based out of there and not a word. But a few nondescript Turks with false IDs are snapped up just like that. Amazing.

Anyways, its a good thing their situational aptitude for jihadi hunting came through this time, for our boys’ sake.


3 posted on 04/05/2008 4:35:57 AM PDT by Blackyce (President Jacques Chirac: "As far as I'm concerned, war always means failure.")
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To: csvset

Caught before carrying out the jihad.

Good deal and thanks for the ping, csvset.

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4 posted on 04/05/2008 1:24:19 PM PDT by Cindy
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5 posted on 04/06/2008 1:06:50 PM PDT by G8 Diplomat (Looking at a lot of the crap out there, bulls aren't big enough....it's blue whale sh*t)
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