Pakistan has arrested two suspected al-Qaida members, following a shootout in the conservative western city of Peshawar.
Police and intelligence officers captured the first suspect after wounding him during an exchange of gunfire Thursday in Peshawar's upscale Hayatabad district.
The other man was arrested later in the day.
Pakistan has arrested dozens of suspected al-Qaida members during a month-long sweep.
Speaking to VOA Friday, Information Minister Sheikh Rashid Ahmed would not confirm reports that one of the men was Algerian, but said both were foreigners.
He said the suspect wounded in the gunfight is still hospitalized.
The heat is seriously on Musharraf. He didn't just convert to Christianity. Everyone is scrambling these days...
NO credible steps by Pak to dismantle terror infrastructure
Hindustan Times - New Delhi,India
The Pakistani regime has not taken any credible steps so far to dismantle the terrorist infrastructure in the country even though recent reports have indicated ...
http://www.hindustantimes.com/news/181_955289,00080001.htm
BRITISH say US gave terror suspects a heads up
Christian Science Monitor - USA
... nabbed in Pakistan; a few megabytes of intelligence retrieved from a computer point to a conspiracy and several plotters; the US raises its terror alert and ...
http://www.csmonitor.com/2004/0819/p07s01-woeu.html
PALESTINIAN 'terror morally justified'
Al-Jazeera - Qatar
By Lawrence Smallman. A leading radical philosopher, who has been compared to Bertrand Russell and Jean-Paul Sartre and praised by ...
http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/B2B64712-ADEE-4CD8-88BA-7DD50A476002.htm
AN odd building out on this terror list
Newsday - Long Island,NY,USA
... me. "My son just returned from a six-week trip there. So we aren't easily scared. We live with terror every day there.". The list ...
http://www.newsday.com/news/local/newyork/columnists/ny-nydugg183934207aug18,0,7705840.column?coll=ny-ny-columnists