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India-Pakistan
Feds questioning al-Qaeda thugs
2002-04-01
  • Pakistan investigators assisted by FBI agents have begun interrogating suspected Al Qaeda and Taliban members arrested during raids involving US law-enforcement officers last week. "The interrogation process has begun. It is being carried out by our own intelligence agencies," senior Interior Ministry official Brigadier Javed Iqbal Cheema said. US Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) agents were collaborating with Pakistan intelligence officers to establish the identities of the detained foreigners, he said. Some 60 people, including 29 mostly Arab and Afghan militants linked to Al Qaeda, were arrested in the raids.

    Nearly 20 US law-enforcement agents supervised the lightning raids overnight on Wednesday in Faisalabad. Later raids were carried out in Lahore. "The Americans were armed and masked. They did not go inside the houses but stood outside," a police source said. Cheema said the operation was conducted by local police on the basis of intelligence provided by US officials. The detained foreigners have been shifted to police facilities in Lahore for questioning.
    So the U.S. backed them into a corner by providing the intel and the men to look over their shoulders while they did the raids. And there were probably American hard boys looking over their shoulders to make sure no coincidental telephone calls were made before the raids.
    • Posted by:Fred Pruitt

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