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November 3, 2005
Pakistan: Two Islamists Arrested - Suspected Al Qaeda Members
From today's Guardian, a report that a shootout has taken place in Quetta in Baluchistan province, Pakistan. The incident happened at a house where Pakistani security officials and three Islamists took place, which left one Islamist dead.
The two other suspects were apprehended, according to Pakistani officials yesterday. There is suspicion that one of those may be Mustafa Setmarian Nasar, a Syrian who is claimed to have had an involvement with the 11 March 2004 bomb atrocity upon Madrid trains, which killed 191 people and injured more than 1,500.
The other suspect is said to be a Pakistani belonging to Jaish-e-Mohammed, an Islamist group linked with al-Qaeda.
The dead man is a Saudi, named as Shaikh Ali Mohammed al-Salim.
The Syrian, Nasar, who is 47, is said by US Justice Dept to be an al-Qaeda member and former terror trainer at camps in Afghanistan. He specialised in teaching jihadists in poison and chemical attack. He is among 35 who were listed in a Spanish indictment for terrorist activities with al-Qaeda. He is said to have links with Imad Eddin Barakat Yarkas, who was jailed on September 26 this year for conspiracy involved with plotting the 9/11 US attacks of 2001. Yarkas was given a 27 year jail sentence.
Keywords: Al Qaeda, al Qaida, al-Qaida, al-Qaeda
Posted by Giraldus Cambrensis at November 3, 2005 6:21 AM
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