Pak rules out handover of radical to US

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http://www.telegraphindia.com/1040731/asp/foreign/story_3565608.asp

Islamabad, July 30: Pakistan today ruled out the possibility of handing over top al Qaida terrorist Ahmed Khalfan Ghailani to the US until the interrogation process is complete.

Arrested by Pakistani security forces on Sunday from Gujarat, 120 km east of Islamabad, with several accomplices including his Uzbek wife and two South Africans, Ghailani was on the FBI’s list of 22 most-wanted terrorists with a bounty of $5 million.

Investigators are scouring a computer and several disks seized when they captured Ghailani and 13 others after a 14-hour gunbattle with security forces last weekend in Gujarat.

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And on a related note :eyes:

Bin Laden's network 'crumbling'

http://www.gulf-daily-news.com/Story.asp?Article=88162&Sn=WORL&IssueID=27133

ISLAMABAD: The network supporting Osama bin Laden was crumbling after the arrest of a top Al Qaeda operative, one of the world's most wanted men, a senior government minister said yesterday.

The Tanzanian-born Ahmed Khalfan Ghailani had a $5 million reward on his head, and is wanted by the United States for his role in the 1998 bombings of two US embassies in East Africa.

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Pakistan's Interior Minister Faisal Saleh Hayat said that he was sure the African would prove a rich source of information on the Al Qaeda network that is supporting fugitive Bin Laden and his deputy Ayman Al Zawahri.

Both are believed to be hiding out in rugged mountains along the Pakistan-Afghanistan border.

That's funny, didn't I just see a post reporting Zawahri was capture somewhere along the Syrian boarder?