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ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, June 12 — Several men believed to be American citizens have been taken into custody here during the past few weeks on suspicion of being linked to Al Qaeda, senior Pakistani officials said today. The Pakistani officials said most of the men had been picked up along with other suspected Al Qaeda and Taliban members in joint American-Pakistani raids in the country's remote tribal areas near the border with Afghanistan. They said they believe that the men form a disjointed network of disaffected Westerners who converted to Islam and have been drawn to militant causes, fighting alongside Al...

<p>PESHAWAR, Pakistan (AP)--A Muslim scholar who taught American-born Taliban soldier John Walker Lindh for six months in a remote Pakistan village has been arrested by police in a joint U.S.-Pakistan operation, a Muslim leader said Tuesday.</p> <p>Mufti Mohammed Iltimas was arrested near the Afghan border in the village of Bannu, according to Qari Abdullah, a local leader of one of Pakistan's largest Islamic groups, Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam.</p>