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Hunt for captured al-Qaida fugitive started with narrow escape in southwestern Pakistan RAWALPINDI, Pakistan (AP) - The stunning arrest of Sept. 11 mastermind Khalid Shaikh Mohammed by Pakistani intelligence and CIA agents began with a near miss last month in a dusty border town and became a feverish chase fueled by communications intercepts and suspects' interrogations, security officials said Sunday. Mohammed, an unidentified man of Middle Eastern origin and Pakistani Ahmed Abdul Qadus were arrested early Saturday in Rawalpindi, a bustling city adjacent to the capital. Mohammed and the unidentified man were handed over to U.S. authorities and spirited...

<p>RAWALPINDI, Pakistan — The stunning arrest of reputed September 11 mastermind Khalid Shaikh Mohammed by Pakistani intelligence and CIA agents began with a near miss last month in a dusty border town and became a feverish chase fueled by communications intercepts and suspects' interrogations.</p>

RAWALPINDI -- Three suspected terrorists including two foreigners were arrested from Rawalpindi in the wee hours of Saturday in two operations jointly launched by American FBI and local sensitive agencies, and it was suspected that one of the arrested foreigners was Khalid Sheikh Muhammad an operational chief of al-Qaeda, confirmed the sources in the Federal government. In the first operation launched at a house in Westridge-2, Nisar Road at 2.30am these agencies rounded up one Ahmad Qadoos, followed by a thorough search of the house and taking away of a tape-recorder, few cassettes, a computer set and few other...