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  • Key Al-Qaeda member Ghilani arrested (East Africa Embassy bombings suspect)

    07/29/2004 5:47:48 PM PDT · by plushaye · 11 replies · 489+ views
    BBC News ^ | July 29 2004 | BBC
    Pakistan says it has arrested a key suspect in the bombings of two US embassies in East Africa in 1998. He has been named as Ahmed Khalfan Ghailani, an al-Qaeda militant who has a $5m American bounty on his head. Pakistan Interior Minister Makhdoom Faisal Saleh Hayat said the Tanzanian was captured during a raid in a small town in central Pakistan on Sunday. Mr Ghailani was held with at least a dozen others after a shoot-out lasting several hours, the minister said. His Uzbek wife and two South African nationals were among those arrested with him, Mr Hayat added....
  • S. African terror suspect arrested in Mexico: report

    08/05/2004 5:52:24 AM PDT · by Dog · 39 replies · 1,032+ views
    www.chinaview.cn ^ | Aug 5 2004 | NA
    JOHANNESBURG, Aug. 5 (Xinhuanet) -- A South African citizen has been arrested in Mexico for alleged involvement in al-Qaeda-linked terrorist activities, South African media reported on Thursday, prompting further speculation about al-Qaeda presence in the country. The man, so far unidentified, was carrying a South African passport and a mobile phone that had been used to make calls to South Africa when he was nabbed in Mexico near the US border on Tuesday, said local newspaper Thisday. However, the South African government has yet confirmed if the man is genuine South African citizen or foreign national holding South African travel...