Law enforcement agencies have arrested 31 people on suspicion of links with Al Qaeda on the basis of information provided by Mahmoud the Weasel Qari Saifullah Akhtar, chief of Harkatul Jihad e Islami Alalmi, sources told Daily Times on Thursday. But sources said they were all small fry and that the police had failed to draw a blank to key players in the terrorist network.
| I think the writer meant that the coppers actually did draw a blank on the head cheeses... |
Qari Saifullah, a close aide to former Taliban commander Mulla Omar, was arrested in Dubai last month and handed over to Pakistan. Sources said that he had ratted out named seven important Al Qaeda operatives in Pakistan after spirited questioning with truncheons, but had denied his involvement in assassination attempts on President Pervez Musharraf and Prime Minister Shaukat Aziz.
Sources said intelligence officials wanted to know if had any information about Mulla Omar but he was tightlipped about the whereabouts of the Taliban leader.
| "I ain't sayin' nuttin', coppers!" |
An intelligence officer said that Qari Saifullah coordinated the terrorist network's activities in Malaysia, Indonesia, the Middleast and Pakistan. He said that intelligence agencies were in search of the seven Al Qaeda men named by Qari Saifullah, but he would not disclose their names, saying it could affect the investigations. |