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Top al Qaeda fugitive detained

May 1, 2006 11:39PM PDT

KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) -- A top al Qaeda leader whose links stretch from Afghan terror training camps to extremist networks operating throughout Europe has been detained in neighboring Pakistan and possibly handed over to American authorities, according to a U.S. law enforcement official.

Mustafa Setmarian Nasar, a Syrian who also holds Spanish citizenship, was captured in a November 2005 sting in the southwestern Pakistani city of Quetta that left one person dead, said the American official, who declined to be identified further because the matter is sensitive.

http://www.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/asiapcf/05/02/pakistan.arrest.ap/index.html

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Gasp! Into the American "gulag"....
May 1, 2006 11:42PM PDT

Yay!

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(NT) (NT) dont you worry they may slap his wrist?
May 1, 2006 11:56PM PDT
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Abu Musab al Zarqawi?s April 25 videotape was made in Syria
May 2, 2006 12:14AM PDT
Abu Musab al Zarqawi?s April 25 videotape was made in Syria ? DEBKA-Net-Weekly 251 revealed last Friday

May 2, 2006, 3:04 PM (GMT+02:00)

US and Israeli intelligence experts traced the location where the rare tape was filmed to a former Red Crescent army base on Jabal Tanaf, 5 kilometers from the border of Iraq?s Anbar Province. They believe that after the US 2003 invasion of Iraq, the Syrian military handed the base over to Zarqawi?s men as a hideout and haven. Of late, he has established a rear headquarters at the rugged mountain site.

DEBKAfile?s Middle East sources note that proof that the al Qaeda in Iraq?s chief is currently operating out of Syria coincides with the easing of US, French and UN pressure on Syrian president Bashar Assad to desist from meddling in Lebanon and sponsoring terror, to cooperate with the UN Hariri investigation and to seal his border to insurgent and al Qaeda incursions of Iraq. The Syrian-Iraqi border is patently still in free use for the smuggling of manpower, arms, explosives and funds.


http://www.debka.com/