Posted on 01/29/2006 11:36:57 AM PST by Dog
ISLAMABAD: Pakistani security forces arrested a suspected Turkish Al-Qaeda militant in a northwestern tribal region near the Afghan border, a security official said on Sunday.
The man, seized on Saturday, identified himself as Mohammad Yusuf and said he was a Turkish national, a security official said.
The 25-year-old was apprehended when security forces stopped a vehicle at a check point at Shah Alam, five kms from Wana, the main town in the South Waziristan region, he said.
Pakistan has deployed thousands of troops into the tribal areas to hunt down Al-Qaeda and Taliban militants who crossed the border after Afghanistan's hardline Taliban Islamic regime fell in late 2001.
Security officials say Pakistan has captured some 700 Al-Qaeda linked militants and conducted a series of operations to flush out militants from the rugged tribal terrain.
I'll bet he had a warm and comfy Saturday night in a nice Pakistani interrogation room.
ABC radio news says there was a 10,000 man demonstration is favor of Alqaida in Pakistan and the Pak military was absent. Also, the Pak military did not follow up the recent bombing of the Alqaida dinner party so many Alqaida escaped.
This arrest is in the area between Damadola and Peshawar....a whole lot of coinky dinks happening in that general area since that airstrike.
It sure does seem that there's a kind of shadow force out there with CIA ties, at least that is what some sources are suggesting.
There has been significant Taliban/AQ sympathy in Pakistan for years. It should not surprise us that it is still so.
There goes another al Qaeda #3! </sarc)
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