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Oerdin
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Sep 2001
time: 21:26
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Breaking news from CNN:
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ISLAMABAD, Pakistan (CNN) -- The man believed to be the key planner of the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001 -- and several al Qaeda attacks in the last 10 years -- was among three terrorism suspects arrested early Saturday in a house outside the Pakistani capital.
The arrest of Khalid Shaikh Mohammed is the single most important in the war on terror since September 11, said a law enforcement official close to the investigation.
Mohammed and two as-yet-unnamed men were arrested by FBI agents and Pakistani security authorities near Islamabad, the official said.
A senior U.S. official said the FBI was aware of the operation but had no official comment.
The arrest was made during a CIA-led operation, the official said. The official said the operation was "ongoing," but said it was unclear whether specific intelligence led to the arrest or whether Mohammed was captured as a part of a broader operation.
Mohammed is described as the strategist who helped coordinate finances and recruitment for the global terrorist network.
The U.S. State Department had offered up to $25 million for information leading to Mohammed's arrest.
Mohammed's al Qaeda roots run deep and wide. One senior government official characterized the breadth of Mohammed's involvement by describing him as the Forrest Gump of al Qaeda, in reference to the book and movie character who appeared in critical moments in recent U.S. history.
Mohammed was indicted in 1996 in the Southern District of New York for his alleged role in a Philippines-based plot to blow up 12 U.S.-bound commercial airliners within 48 hours.
Mohammed has been linked to the bombings of U.S. embassies in Kenya and Tanzania in 1998, the bombing of the USS Cole in 2000, Richard Reid's foiled 2001 attempt to blow up an airliner with a shoe bomb, and most recently, the bombings at the El Ghriba synagogue in Djerba, Tunisia, that killed 19 last year. The synagogue bombings were the first successful al Qaeda attacks outside Afghanistan after September 11, 2001, when terrorists hijacked four airlines and crashed them into the World Trade Center, the Pentagon and a field in Pennsylvania, killing more than 3,000 people.
Last September, Yosri Fouda, a reporter for the Arabic-language Al-Jazeera television network, said he interviewed Mohammed while making a documentary for the first anniversary of the September 11 attacks.
Fouda said Mohammed introduced himself as the head of the al Qaeda military committee. He told Fouda, complete with details, that he attended the meeting during which the decision was made to strike at America inside America.
Mohammed was born in Kuwait either March 1, 1964 or April 14, 1965. He carries a Pakistani passport.
-- CNN Islamabad bureau chief Ash-har Quraishi, correspondents Mike Boettcher, Susan Candiotti and Maria Ressa, and producers Justine Redman and Henry Schuster contributed to this report.
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MichaeltheGreat
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Apolyton Grand Executioner
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mooning the house that Ruth built.
Oct 1999
time: 21:26
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They can't keep anything under wraps in Pakistan. They can't even control their own government, which still has Taleban and al Qaeda sympathizers (or members) in the police, military and intelligence services.
A little over a week ago, a Pakistani air force pilot deliberately shot down a Pakistani chartered airplane carrying the Afghani Minister of Mines and Industry, four other Afghani officials, a US (Afghan-American) civil engineer who was a volunteer adviser to the Afghani government, and two other people, plus a two-man aircrew.
That detail didn't make the US press, (it officially was a "crash" shortly after takeoff with no explanation given)
75 Pakistani militia who were trained al Qaeda operatives is also one of those things that doesn't get a lot of coverage.
There's a few things with Daniel Pearl's murder that stink, including some indication that some people in the Pakistani government knew where he was before he was killed.
I'm sure they announced it because they figured all the bad guys knew instantly, so they may as well get some positive credit.
I'd be surprised if Mohammad went to Virginia (at least, until after all the interrogation is finished.) On US soil, there are definite rules. Before he gets there, there really aren't.
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Oerdin
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of Internet Music.
Sep 2001
time: 21:26
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CNN has written another article this time with more info. Apparently one of the other two men arrested with Khalid is named Mohammed Qadoos who is an Arab immigrant to Pakistan and a high ranking member of Pakistan's largest religious political party, Jamaat Islami. This seems to confirm people's suspisions that Pakistan's Islamic parties are in bed with Islamic militants.
CNN also reports that Khalid has been taken out of Pakistan but they don't say to where but U.S. government officials said there were no plans at this point to take him to the United States (my money is on Gitmo). The arrest in Pakistan was a CIA-led operation, according to a senior U.S. official who said the operation was "ongoing."
Khalid was almost caught one week ago during a raid in the Pakistani city of Quetta but he escaped during the gun fight and left several off his associates behind to be captured. The police learned of the Al Qaeda safe house in Rawalpindi, where Khalid was caught yesterday, by questioning several of the captives caught in the Quetta raid.
Here's the rest of the article
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