Top al-Qaeda man's son caught
25/02/2004 12:25  - (SA)  

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Islamabad - A son of Osama bin Laden's top lieutenant, Ayman al-Zawahiri, has been captured by Pakistani forces, one of Pakistan's leading newspapers reported Wednesday.

The Urdu-language Jang daily said Khalid al-Zawahiri was arrested in an operation against Al-Qaeda suspects in South Waziristan, a semi-autonomous area bording Afghanistan, on Tuesday.

The report, quoting diplomatic sources, said Khalid was handed over to US custody soon after the arrest and flown out of Pakistan.

Military and government officials declined to confirm or deny the report.

Ayman al-Zawahiri, suspected by the United States as being one of the authors of the September 11 attacks, threatened new attacks in the US in a recording attributed to him by Al-Jazeera television station on Tuesday.

- SAPA

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