The arrest was triggered when one of the suspects sat down in an Internet cafe in the wild frontier city Peshawar on Thursday morning and sent an apparently coded email inviting an Arab man to meet him. He was whispering furtively into his mobile phone in the Pashtu language, unaware of the six plainclothes intelligence agents posing as net browsers in the cafe. Shortly after, a bearded Arab man entered the cafe and approached the Pashtu-speaker. At that point the intelligence agents jumped up from their terminals and pounced on the two men.
| "Stick 'em up, Muggsy! Yer surrounded!" |
Habib whipped out a rod took out a pistol but was overpowered before he could fire it. Uniformed anti-terrorist commandos then arrived at the cafe in jeeps.
| "Cheezit! The uniformed anti-terrorist comandos!" |
Some 15 commandos blindfolded Habib, tied the hands and feet of the Arab man and bundled the pair into the waiting jeeps and drove off. |