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Pakistan Bags Another One Pakistani officials confirm that a major al-Qaeda operative was captured in Peshawar a few days ago, Agence France-Presse reports today: Pakistani security forces arrested an Egyptian Al-Qaeda operative in the northwestern city of Peshawar bordering Afghanistan, a security official said. The official identified the man as Abdul Rehman and said he was on the most wanted list of the US Central Intleligence Agency. "He is an important Al-Qaeda operative who had been hiding in Pakistan," the official who could not be identified told AFP on Wednesday. The Pakistanis continue to roll up major AQ players in...

<p>ISLAMABAD, Aug. 2. — Pakistani intelligence agents found plans for new attacks against the United States and Britain on a computer seized during the arrest of a top Al-Qaida suspect wanted for the 1998 twin US embassy bombings in East Africa, the information minister said.</p>

Pakistan Arrests Al Qaeda Suspect, Eight Militants Sun Jun 13, 2004 01:16 PM ET ISLAMABAD (Reuters) - Pakistan arrested an al Qaeda suspect with a $1 million reward on his head and eight other militants suspected of ambushing Karachi's military commander last week, the information minister said on Sunday. Information Minister Sheikh Rashid Ahmed told Reuters that an Arab national, an important member of the al Qaeda network, had been arrested. He was identified as Musaad Aruchi."The al Qaeda person is the nephew of Khalid Sheikh Mohammed," the minister said.Khalid was the alleged mastermind of the September 11, 2001, attacks...

For one night, police had one of the FBI's most wanted al-Qaeda terrorists behind bars. Fazul Abdullah Mohammed was picked up in connection with an armed robbery in the steamy Indian Ocean port of Mombasa. It should have been a coup for Kenya's cops. They had a man with a $25-million bounty on his head who was indicted for planning the 1998 United States embassy bombings in East Africa.The problem was they didn't know his true identity, although Fazul's most-wanted poster had been collecting dust on the grimy walls of Kenyan police stations for years.A day after his detention on...

<p>Amman, , Apr. 26 (UPI) -- A senior al-Qaida operative was among four terrorists killed in a clash with Jordanian police in Amman last week, security sources said Monday.</p> <p>The sources told UPI Mowaffal Ali Adwan, code-named Abu Omar, was killed in the operation in a densely-populated neighborhood of al-Shahemi in eastern Amman last Tuesday.</p>

Pakistan in new al-Qaeda hunt Pakistan claimed it has fresh information that could lead to the capture or killing of Tahir Yuldashev, an Islamist leader from Uzbekistan with close ties to al-Qaeda. The confirmation of an intensified hunt for Mr Yuldashev in Pakistan's remote northern areas bordering Afghanistan, followed earlier reports that he had been badly injured in recent exchange of fire between Pakistani troops and militants, and was on the run. "We are actively following new leads for Yuldashev" said a senior Pakistani official on Sunday. "We are confident that he may be cornered. This would be a major,...

Pakistan Says Senior al-Qaida Leader Hurt 1 hour, 11 minutes ago By CHRIS TOMLINSON, Associated Press Writer ISLAMABAD, Pakistan - Pakistan's military badly wounded a senior al-Qaida leader, who is now hiding out in the country's western tribal area, a military spokesman said Saturday.Al-Qaida commander Tahir Yuldash — also known as Tahir Yuldashev — had been mentioned earlier as one of two possible "high-value targets" cornered when Pakistan's military began a sweep of South Waziristan on March 16. In a statement, military spokesman Maj. Gen. Shaukat Sultan said only that recent intelligence indicated that Yuldash was severely wounded and in...

Pakistan Finds Bodies of 8 Missing Soldiers VOA News 26 Mar 2004, 19:39 UTC AP Pakistani soldiers near Wana, Pakistan Pakistan's army has recovered the bodies of eight soldiers missing since an ambush late Monday in a remote tribal area along the Afghan border. Army spokesman, Major General Shaukat Sultan told the media in Islamabad Friday, the soldiers were killed in cold blood. He said their bodies were found near the town of Wana in the South Waziristan semi-autonomous region, where government troops have been searching for suspected al-Qaida militants since March 16. The military operation continues despite nationwide rallies...

<p>Five bodies of what appeared to be 25- to 30-year-old men were displayed to journalists at a military mortuary in Rawalpindi, a city near the capital Islamabad, late Sunday. Al-Zawahri, an Egyptian surgeon, is 52 years old.</p> <p>The bodies were laid out on stretchers and in open coffins in bloodied clothes.</p>