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| 3 al-Qaeda members captured at Afghan refugee camp |
| 2005-12-02 |
| Three foreigners with suspected links to Al-Qaeda were arrested in an Afghan refugee camp in northwestern Pakistan, intelligence officials said. The men were arrested on Wednesday from a mud-walled compound in Jalozai, a sprawling refugee settlement about 25 kilometres east of Peshawar, capital of the North West Frontier province, one intelligence official said on condition of anonymity. The second intelligence official, who also could not be named, said a large number of police and intelligence agents arrested the suspects from a bus they were travelling in following an intelligence tip off. Information Minister Sheikh Rashid Ahmed, who has officially announced arrests of Al-Qaeda suspects in Pakistan in the past, could not immediately confirm the reported arrests near Peshawar. The intelligence officials did not give nationalities or identities of the three men but said that they did not appear to be senior terrorist figures. |
| Posted by:Dan Darling |