Three top al-Qaeda men nabbed in Lahore?

Jang, The News ^ | Wednesday, April 01, 2009 | Rauf Klasra

[gandalftb]

ISLAMABAD: In a major breakthrough, secret agencies captured three high-profile targets of al-Qaeda in Lahore on Tuesday (with) information obtained from the captured Afghan national during the Lahore attack.

Officials were highly optimistic that these three high-profile leaders, the network of these terrorists based in Lahore might be broken. The next target of al-Qaeda was said to be the Seraiki region of the southern Punjab.

12 people, mostly Pashto speaking and a couple of Uzbek and Tajik nationals, were arrested. They were said to be behind the attack on the Sri Lankan team on March 3.

Sources said the lone captured terrorist continued to divulge information, agencies raided certain places in Lahore city and immediately arrested nine people on the day of the attack at Manawan.

The Afghan provided big leads when he gave them the names of three top members of al-Qaeda leaders hiding in Lahore.

Sources said investigators were now quite hopeful that they might get useful information from these high-profile al-Qaeda men as they knew the plans of Baitullah Mehsud. They would be able to get more information about their plans to hit the Seraiki areas of the Punjab.

[gandalftb]

This source is highly credible. I don't think they got UBL or Z, but hopefully some second and third tier AQ.

[exist]

So what happens now does Eric Holder release these guys into Wyoming?

[null and void]

They’ll be release on their own recognizance?

[Straight Vermonter]

Possible big catch here.

[kromike]

They’ll be release on their own recognizance?

You bet. Bush made 'em behave badly. Obama will appoint them as "Business Czars" (assuming of course that they 'forgot' to pay taxes)...

[Jet Jaguar]

BTTT

[MEG33]

Possible Good News!

[gandalftb]

Some follow up, one of the captured Pahktuns is Hijratullah, AKA Nadeem Asghar. He is a Taliban under the command of Qari Hussain Mehsud (Baitullah's next-in-command). Hussain runs a training camp at Spinkai Ragzai, S Waziristan that specializes in recruiting young boys from madrassas for suicide bombings.

Hussain has been killed twice already by the Paki's. After his sighting on Monday in Lahore, those reports seem to be exaggerated.

[N. Theknow]

Al-Qaeda = Arabic for ACORN

[gandalftb]

Correction: We also killed Hussain back on on Jan 27, 2008 in a missile strike on his compound, target coordinates provided to us by (guess who?), the Paki’s.

[BuffaloJack]

> Al-Qaeda = Arabic for ACORN

Priceless!!!

[50sDad]

As long as we didn't put panties on anyone's head!

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[csvset]

the lone captured terrorist continued to divulge information

US launches first strike in Arakzai tribal agency

Hmm... You have to wonder if these two events are connected.

[gandalftb]

More follow up: In an earlier post:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2219897/posts

Of Baitullahs claims over Lahore, Baitullah refuses to discuss his connection to another group Fidayeen-e Islam whom have also claimed responsibility for Lahore.

Now we know that the Lahore was in fact a Fidayeen attack and now know that the Fidayeen-e Islam is headed by none other than Qari Hussain Mehsud, Baitullah's second-in-command.

[gandalftb]

They are all Mehsud cousins, but with differant operational areas. Hakimullah works more closely with AQ’s Uzbeks in the Afghan theater, makes his money drug trafficking into Pakistan. Hussain works with Taliban Punjabis in E Pakistan, including the LeJ, the Mumbai attackers. Hussain then moves the drugs across Pakistan and into India.

[BOBTHENAILER]

Miss Universe, fresh from Guantanamo, will visit the “Hapless Three” soon.

[OrioleFan]

I hear Obama is looking for someone with management experience to run GM...

[rfp1234]

Is it legit or another April Fool joke?!

[ScottinVA]

They’re probably former guests at Club GITMO.

[ScottinVA]

“They are all Mehsud cousins”

Aren’t they all?? Typical mohammedan inbreeding.