They nabbed a courir:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/worldlatest/story/0,1280,-4380919,00.html
More al-Qaida Arrests Made in Pakistan
Tuesday August 3, 2004 11:46 AM
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By PAUL HAVEN
Associated Press Writer
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan (AP) - Pakistani authorities have arrested several more al-Qaida suspects in the past few days, including one man seized trying to leave the country from an airport in the eastern city of Lahore and another arrested in a nearby town, a senior government official and police said.
The arrests were all made in the last 72 hours and the suspects were being interrogated, said the government official, who spoke on condition of anonymity.
One of the men arrested identified himself as a Syrian named Juma Ibrahim. He was taken in Sunday in Hafizabad, a town near the eastern city of Lahore, said district police chief Aslam Ghauri. He said the man told authorities that he was in the town for business, but had no references and could not say who he was meeting with, Ghauri said.
The man has been turned over to Inter-Services Intelligence, Pakistan's spy agency, Ghauri said.
The senior government official said another man had been arrested trying to board a plane in Lahore with several questionable documents. He would give no details.
``Yes, we have made several arrests of al-Qaida linked people,'' said the official. It was not clear where the other arrest was made or how significant the suspects are.
The official said they were believed linked to other al-Qaida suspects taken in recently, including a computer expert arrested July 13 that has been identified as Mohammad Naeem Noor Khan, also known as Abu Talha.
Information provided by Khan, as well as another al-Qaida suspect, Ahmed Khalfan Ghailani, a Tanzanian arrested July 25, was a major factor in the decision by U.S. Homeland Security Secretary Tom Ridge to issue a warning about a possible al-Qaida attack on prominent financial institutions in New York, Washington and Newark, New Jersey.
Ghauri said the Syrian suspect was arrested at a bus station. He had no passport or travel documents, only a U.N. refugee agency card that identified him as a refugee and allowed him to travel to Islamabad.
Meanwhile, more information emerged about the hunt that led authorities to Ghailani.
A senior intelligence official told The Associated Press that the man had spent some time in the tribal area of South Waziristan before traveling in recent weeks to Gujrat. He said he was helped by al-Qaida ``facilitators'' who arranged for him to hide in several local houses and stay out of sight.
Ghailani is African and would stand out among the tribal people along the Pakistan-Afghan border, but he likely never was seen by the locals.
``When these people enter a house, they don't come out. They have one or two local people who arrange food for them, and even they rarely see the person,'' said the intelligence official, who also spoke on condition his name not be used. ``They try to maintain that level of secrecy.''
Ghailani is also suspected of spending time in the southern port city of Karachi, home to a number of local extremist groups as well as al-Qaida, and in the eastern city of Lahore.
``We were searching for him for a while and we were several days behind him in different cities, until the moment was right and we caught him,'' the senior government official said.
Take a look at his encrypted documents.
I cn nt spll courier
Al Qaeda leadership is taking a major hit over the last three weeks. We are rolling them up left and right.
Regardless of whether these people are giving information about Bin Laden or Zawahiri's whereabouts, it would be wise for all of our troops and assets to remain vigilant, because Bin Laden cannot know whether he is safe or not and may be forced to make a move.