Two Al-Qaeda Leaders Allegedly Arrested in Karachi: Report

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Two Al-Qaeda Leaders Allegedly Arrested in Karachi: Report

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A Lahore-based Daily Times reported on Monday that Pakistan has arrested two of the most wanted Al-Qaeda leaders, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and Sheikh Ahmed Salim, in southern city of Karachi and immediately handed them to the US intelligence agency FBI.

There has been no official confirmation of the arrests, while Pakistan's Interior Minister Moinuddin Haider has denied such reports, said the paper.

Quoting eyewitness in Jeelani Center in Kharadar, a thickly populated area of Karachi, it said that Khalid Sheikh Mohammed wasarrested from apartment number 715 in a raid by the Karachi Policeand FBI agents on June 16 this year.

Sources in Karachi, including some eyewitnesses, firmly believethat Sheikh Ahmed Salim, another top Al-Qaeda activist, was arrested on July 11 this year from another spot in Methadar, an area very close to the one from where Khalid Sheikh Mohammed was arrested, according to the paper. J

Sources said Sheikh Ahmed Salim was arrested on the informationprovided to the investigators by a member of a banned sectarian group, who was in police custody in Karachi.

The report quoted unofficial sources as saying that during the raid to arrest Sheikh Ahmed Salim, two persons, an Arab and a local, escaped and the security and intelligence agencies were looking for them.

Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and Sheikh Ahmed Salim are among the 22 most wanted Al-Qaeda activists with a head money of 25 million US dollars, offered under the "Rewards For Justice Program" of the USState Department.

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