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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>This follow-on post does some in-depth analysis of what the Muhajir arrest really means, and the game that's afoot here. Which is not the story the media is talking about. Mujahir's M.O. tells us a lot about Al-Qaeda, and he could be our Midway on that front of our War Against Islamists. I explain how and why.</p>

Note: 4GW = Fourth Generation Warfare Every operation tells us something. This operation tells us a lot, or at least enables us to draw some useful conclusions. For starters, Al-Qaeda truly does not appear to have prepared for a series of attacks post 9/11. Muhajir was in Pakistan and the Mideast since 1998, and could easily have been slipped back into the US ahead of September 11, 2001. Instead, he is arrested coming into the country on May 8, 2002. From Ashcroft's own statement: "Subsequent to his release from prison, he traveled to Afghanistan and Pakistan. On several occasions in...