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85 ALLEGED AL-QAEDA MEMBERS ARE IN PAKISTANI JAILS
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Alleged
Al-Qaeda members detained in Pakistani prisons.
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Report
by IOL Correspondent
ISLAMABAD,
Feb. 19 (IslamOnline) - Some 85 alleged members of Al-Qaeda network are in
different Pakistani jails following the fall of the Taliban government in
war-stricken Afghanistan, an interior ministry official told IslamOnline on
Tuesday.
A
majority of the alleged Al-Qaeda members were arrested during attempts to enter
Pakistan after ousting the Taliban regime, the official said and added that some
of them had been arrested from different Pakistani cities on a tip-off.
According
to a report, compiled by Islamabad-based Afghan Center for Research and Studies,
out of 85 Al-Qaeda detainees, about a dozen had been handed over to U.S. forces
in Afghanistan by Pakistani authorities, although they were arrested on
Pakistani soil.
Some
21 alleged Bin Laden’s companions detained in different Pakistani jails have
been identified as Abdul Aziz Bin Abdul Rehman (Saudi Arabia), Abdullah Bin
Mohammed Saleh Al-Amni (Saudi Arabia), Abdul Rehman Bin Abdullah Bin Ali Ahsbati
(Yemen), Fahad bin Omar-ul-Sharif (Saudi Arabia), Tariq Bin Saleh Bin Hussein
(Saudi Arabia), Zaid Bin Saleh Bin Mohammed Arf (Saudi Arabia), Mohammed Bin
Asif Wamani (Syria), Abdul Nasir Hafiz Wamani (Syria), Fauzi Khalid Al-Waeda
(Kuwait), Abdullah Kamil (Kuwait), Abdul Aziz Al-Shami (Kuwait), Khalid Bin
Abdullah Mashhad (Kuwait), Mohammed Bin Hamid Al-Qarni (Saudi Arabia), Rasheed
Owaida (Saudi Arabia), Sharifl-ul-Sanani (Yemen), Ismaeel Al-Jazairi (Al-Jazira)
, Habib-ul-Tazi (Yemen), Shafiq Al-Badri (Saudi Arabia), Mosab-Al-Sharif (Saudi
Arabia), Abu Bakr Al-Shamrani (Saudi Arabia, and Fahad Fauzan Al-Fauzan (Saudi
Arabia).
According
to the official, the government has not so far decided anything definitive about
the fate of respective detainees. However, he added, their handing over to U.S.
forces, if demanded, could not be ruled out. In other case, he said, they might
be handed over to their respective countries.
In
reply to a question, the official said that most of the detainees had been
booked for entering the country without valid documents. Otherwise, no serious
charge has so far been framed against them, he added.
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