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Pak arrests Al-Qaeda aide, thwart major attack Lahore: Pakistani police have thwarted a "major terrorist attack" in the eastern city of Lahore after arresting six suspected militants, including an aide of a wanted Al-Qaeda operative, they said on Monday. Explosives, hand-grenades and ammunition were recovered during the weekend raids which netted an aide to Libyan Al-Qaeda militant Abu Faraj al-Libbi, who is wanted for masterminding two attempts to kill President Pervez Musharraf. "The group was planning a major terrorist attack in Lahore," senior police official Shafqaat Ahmed told AFP, without giving details. "We have arrested six suspected militants including Malik Tehsin who was an assistant of Abu Faraj al-Libbi, a wanted Al-Qaeda man," he added. Tehsin belonged to two banned Sunni militant outfits, Sipah Sahaba Pakistan and Laskar-i-Jhangvi, and received training in Afghanistan several years ago, Ahmed said. Tehsin, who met al-Libbi in Afghanistan, also helped him arrange logistics for terrorist attacks in Pakistan, he said. Pakistan has posted a reward of 20 million rupees for the arrest of al-Libbi for masterminding two attacks on Musharraf's motorcade last December 14 and 25. The United States has also offered a five-million-dollar reward on his arrest. Pakistani authorities in September shot dead local Al-Qaeda lynchpin Amjad Farooqi, a co-planner in the Christmas Day attempt on Musharraf's life and the beheading of US reporter Daniel Pearl. Other major successes against Al-Qaeda this year include Tanzanian national Ahmed Khalfan Ghailani, who was convicted for the 1998 twin bombings of US embassies in East Africa, and Pakistani Al-Qaeda computer expert Naeem Noor Khan. ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> Make a clean sweep of pop-up ads. Yahoo! Companion Toolbar. Now with Pop-Up Blocker. Get it for free! http://us.click.yahoo.com/L5YrjA/eSIIAA/yQLSAA/TySplB/TM --------------------------------------------------------------------~-> -------------------------- Want to discuss this topic? Head on over to our discussion list, [EMAIL PROTECTED] -------------------------- Brooks Isoldi, editor [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.intellnet.org Post message: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] *** FAIR USE NOTICE. This message contains copyrighted material whose use has not been specifically authorized by the copyright owner. OSINT, as a part of The Intelligence Network, is making it available without profit to OSINT YahooGroups members who have expressed a prior interest in receiving the included information in their efforts to advance the understanding of intelligence and law enforcement organizations, their activities, methods, techniques, human rights, civil liberties, social justice and other intelligence related issues, for non-profit research and educational purposes only. We believe that this constitutes a 'fair use' of the copyrighted material as provided for in section 107 of the U.S. Copyright Law. If you wish to use this copyrighted material for purposes of your own that go beyond 'fair use,' you must obtain permission from the copyright owner. For more information go to: http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/107.shtml Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/osint/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
