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JULY 25, 2004 : (PAKISTAN : TANZANIAN A K GHAILANI AND TWO OTHER TERROR SUSPECTS ARE CAPTURED AFTER GUNBATTLE IN IN GUJRAT; GHAILANI WAS CAUGHT WHILE WAITING FOR "IMPORTANT NEWS FROM THE UNITED STATES" ; PLANS ARE FOUND FOR NEW ATTACKS AGAINST THE US AND UK ) Aug. 2. Pakistani intelligence agents found plans for new attacks against the United States and Britain on a computer seized during the arrest of a top Al-Qaida suspect wanted for the 1998 twin US embassy bombings in East Africa, the information minister said.The plans were found in e-mails on the computer of Ahmed Khalfan Ghailani, a Tanzanian arrested on 25 July after a 12-hour gunbattle in the eastern city of Gujrat, information minister Sheikh Rashid Ahmed said today. “We got a few e-mails from Ghailani’s computer about (plans for) attacks in the USA and UK,” he said, adding that the information has been shared with Pakistan’s allies — a reference to the USA. ... Interior minister Mr Faisal Saleh Hayyat confirmed that Ghailani was sharing “vital” information, but would not comment on what it was.
An intelligence official said on condition of anonymity that the information about a US attack appeared to be centred on New York.
The Home Office in London, which is responsible for policing and security in Britain, said it didn’t believe the computer seizure revealed a “specific threat” or that the British public needed to take any special action as a result.
The department said the threat from terrorism is “real and serious” and its position was unchanged.
-------------Pak seizes terror plans (More details on Foopie's arrest) , Associated Press VIA The Statesman ^ | July3 2004 | NA ISLAMABAD
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The officials said that two other suspects arrested with Ghailani, earlier thought to be insignificant, had provided information showing that Ghailani was expecting important news from the United States. Pakistani and U.S. officials are still trying to establish the nationalities of the two suspects.
An al Qaeda operative captured several weeks ago by Pakistani security forces, Abu Talaha, was described as one of the key sources of the documentary information on surveillance in the United States, according to a senior American intelligence official. Talaha remains in Pakistani custody, the official said.
-----------------?Al Qaeda Arrest In June Opened Valuable Leads," WashingtonPost ^ | 08/03/04 | Kamran Khan ?

JULY 25, 2004 : (PAKISTAN : GHAILANI IS CAPTURED WITH HIS WIFE & TWO SOUTH AFRICANS) Ghailani was captured along with his Uzbek wife and two South Africans after his driver led police to his hide-out, the intelligence source said. Among those found in the house were three women and five children. Ghailani had brought two other foreign comrades to his safe house after the group became nervous that security forces were closing in on the hotel in Gujarat where they had been staying, the intelligence source said. Security forces were now searching for the Pakistani who rented the house for Ghailani. ....Ghailani and his companions had spent time in Afghanistan fighting with the Taliban and were preparing to flee Pakistan along with their families, using fake travel papers, when the authorities caught up with them, a ministry official said. ---- Top Al Qaeda Men Resists Pakistani Interrogators(Not for long!) Reuters ^ | Jul 30, 2004 | Zeeshan Haider Posted on 07/30/2004 3:29:25 AM PDT by Dog