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LONDON (Reuters) -- Counterterrorism detectives said they had arrested five men in early morning raids today in northwest England. They were being held on suspicion of committing terrorism offenses including inciting an act of terrorism overseas. Police said the suspects, aged 21, 26, 27, 52, and 62, were detained after swoops at homes in Manchester and Bolton, and at a hotel near London's Heathrow Airport. The properties were now being searched.

Note: The following text is a quote: Two Individuals Plead Guilty to Offering to Bribe U.S. Army Contracting Official in Afghanistan Two dual Afghan/U.S. citizens today pleaded guilty for their roles in a scheme to offer $1 million in bribes to a U.S. Army contracting official in Afghanistan. Rohullah Farooqi Lodin, 48, from Irvine, Calif., and Hashmatullah Farooqi, 38, from New York City, pleaded guilty to one count of offering to bribe a public official before Judge Liam O’Grady in U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia. The U.S. Army in Afghanistan is responsible for the Commander’s Emergency...

Hundreds of people have gathered at a village in Pakistan's Punjab province for the funeral of key al-Qaeda suspect Amjad Farooqi. Farooqi was killed by security forces in a gun battle in Nawabshah, Sindh province, on 26 September. His family expects to receive his body later on Wednesday now that DNA tests have proven his identity. There is a heavy police presence in the village in Toba Tek Singh district amid fears of violence. President Pervez Musharraf said the killing of Farooqi had removed a "serious terrorist threat". Islamic tradition The BBC's Adnan Adil in Lahore says an official...

Amjad Farooqi's body was withheld for DNA tests Hundreds of people have gathered at a village in Pakistan's Punjab province for the funeral of key al-Qaeda suspect Amjad Farooqi. Farooqi was killed by security forces in a gun battle in Nawabshah, Sindh province, on 26 September. His family expects to receive his body later on Wednesday now that DNA tests have proven his identity. There is a heavy police presence in the village in Toba Tek Singh district amid fears of violence. President Pervez Musharraf said the killing of Farooqi had removed a "serious terrorist threat". The BBC's Adnan Adil...

Suspect's death raises doubts in Pearl caseBy Anwar Iqbal UPI South Asian Affairs Analyst Published 9/29/2004 6:27 PM WASHINGTON, Sept. 29 (UPI) -- The death of a terror suspect in Pakistan this weekend has raised fresh questions about the beheading of an American journalist almost three years ago. New information about the suspect, Amjad Farooqi, indicates that he, and not the man convicted for the murder of Daniel Pearl, plotted the journalist's abduction and the subsequent decapitation. Pearl, a Wall Street Journal reporter, was abducted in Karachi, Pakistan, on Jan. 23, 2002. A video released by his abductors showed masked...

Why Amjad Farooqi had to die By B Raman CHENNAI - Pakistani security agencies on Sunday killed Amjad Hussain Farooqi, alias Mansur Hasnain alias Imtiaz Siddiqui alias Hyder alias Doctor, who, according to them, was the mastermind behind the two aborted attempts to kill President General Pervez Musharraf in Rawalpindi last December. According to them, he was killed during an encounter with the paramilitary forces who had surrounded a rented house in Nawabshah in Sindh province, where he along with some others had been living for the past two months. On August 20, the Pakistani authorities had announced cash rewards...

Interior Minister, Aftab Ahmad Khan Sherpao has said that killed suspect Amjad Farooqi was maintaining close links with central leadership of Al-Qaeda who wanted to target important personalities including President general Pervez Musharraf. He was addressing a press conference here in PIDC on Monday. State minister for information, Aneesa Zeb, DG National Crisis Management Cell, Brig Javed Iqbal Cheema and PIO, Akram Shaheedi were also present on the occasion. Sherpao held that nothing would be concealed from the media whatever incident takes place in the country. About Amjad Farooqi he pointed out that security agencies had played a vital role...

Pakistan Says Pearl Killer Dies in Shootout Monday, September 27, 2004 KARACHI, Pakistan — Police stepped up patrols around foreign consulates and government offices in this volatile city Monday, fearing a backlash after Pakistani forces killed a suspected top Al Qaeda operative wanted for his alleged role in the 2002 kidnapping and beheading of Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl. Amjad Hussain Farooqi, also accused in two attempts on the life of President Gen. Pervez Musharraf in December 2003, died in a four-hour shootout Sunday at a house in the southern town of Nawabshah. Two or three other men, one...

KARACHI, Pakistan – Paramilitary police killed a suspected top al-Qaeda operative, wanted for alleged involvement in the kidnapping of Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl, during a four-hour shootout Sunday at a southern Pakistan house, the information minister said. Two other men were arrested. Amjad Hussain Farooqi was wanted for his alleged role in the kidnapping and beheading of reporter Daniel Pearl in 2002 and two assassination attempts against President Gen. Pervez Musharraf in December 2003. "I as chief spokesman for the government of Pakistan confirm that our forces have killed Amjad Hussain Farooqi," Information Minister Sheikh Rashid Ahmed told...

KARACHI, Pakistan (AP) - Paramilitary police killed a suspected top al-Qaida operative Sunday in a four-hour gunbattle at a house in southern Pakistan that also led to the arrest of two other men, the information minister said. Amjad Hussain Farooqi had been wanted for his alleged role in the kidnapping and beheading of Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl in 2002 and two assassination attempts against President Gen. Pervez Musharraf in December 2003. "I as chief spokesman for the government of Pakistan confirm that our forces have killed Amjad Hussain Farooqi," Information Minister Sheikh Rashid Ahmed told The Associated Press...

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PIR MAHAL, Pakistan (AP) - Long before Pakistan launched a new manhunt for him this week as a major al-Qaida-linked terrorist, Amjad Hussain Farooqi grew up "shy and cowardly" and was bullied by other boys, relatives said. But Farooqi changed after training with Islamic militants in Kashmir and Afghanistan, and is currently the chief fugitive suspect in the slaying of Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl and two recent attempts to assassinate Pakistan's president. Farooqi, 32, has been missing since Pearl was abducted in the southern city of Karachi in January 2002. Pearl's captors beheaded him and released a videotape...

PIR MAHAL, Pakistan (AP) - A man wanted in both the slaying of Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl and attempts to kill Pakistan's president grew up "shy and cowardly," but went on to train with Islamic militants in Kashmir and later tried to convince his family to join holy war, relatives said. Amjad Hussain Farooqi, 32, has been missing since Pearl was abducted in the southern city of Karachi in January 2002. Pearl's captors beheaded him and released a videotape of the killing. On Friday, senior security officials identified Farooqi as the organizer of two attempts to assassinate President...

ISLAMABAD (Reuters) - An al Qaeda-linked Pakistani wanted in the murder of U.S. reporter Daniel Pearl was behind two attempts to kill President Pervez Musharraf in December, intelligence officials said Friday. Musharraf, a key ally in the U.S.-led war on terror, was unharmed in the attempts on December 14 and December 25, but 15 people died in the latter, including the two suicide bombers. Intelligence officials said investigators had linked the attacks to Amjad Hussain Farooqi, a key suspect in the 2002 murder of Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl. Farooqi, still at large, is also the alleged mastermind of...