Another top al-Qaeda arrest

2004-08-03 17:44

Islamabad - Pakistani authorities have arrested two high-ranking al-Qaeda terrorists of African origin, including one with a multi-million dollar US bounty on his head, in a days-long sweep that has netted a number of other terror suspects, officials said on Tuesday.

Interior minister Faisal Saleh Hayyat said the arrests in eastern Punjab province constituted another major break, just days after intelligence agents swooped down on Ahmed Khalfan Ghailani, a Tanzanian wanted for the 1998 bombings of US embassies in East Africa.

"In addition to Ahmed Khalfan Ghailani, whose bounty was $25 million, we have captured another most wanted suspect with a bounty on him running into the millions of dollars," Hayyat told a press conference in the capital.

- AP