Zawahri Report Was Wrong
Mon, Sep 27, 2004 at 4:25:48 pm PDT
Reports of the capture of Ayman al-Zawahri were greatly exaggerated.
ISLAMABAD, Sept 27 (Reuters) - Pakistan officials denied an Al Arabiya television report on Monday that top al Qaeda official Ayman al-Zawahri has been arrested in Pakistan.
“It is a negative, it is wrong,” Brigadier Javed Cheema, Director General of the Interior Ministry’s Crisis Management Cell, told Reuters.
But there have been other important developments in Pakistan: Pakistanis Arrest Four Militant Suspects.
KARACHI, Pakistan - Security forces following up on a raid that killed a top al-Qaida fugitive arrested four more suspected extremists Monday, and Pakistan’s president predicted the investigation would lead to more high-profile militants.
President Gen. Pervez Musharraf lauded the killing of Amjad Hussain Farooqi, who died in a four-hour gunbattle Sunday after vowing never to surrender. Farooqi was wanted for his alleged role in the 2002 beheading of Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl and in two assassination attempts on the Pakistani president in December 2003. Three other Pakistanis, one of them an Islamic cleric, were arrested in the raid.
“We eliminated one of the very major sources of terrorist attacks. He was not only involved on attacks on me but also on attacks elsewhere in the country. So a very big terrorist has been eliminated,” Musharraf told reporters in the Netherlands while traveling home from New York.
Now you might think this is good news. But don’t be fooled. According to the Axis of Kerry, even though Pakistan has broken up the ring of bloodthirsty monsters who butchered Daniel Pearl and began a wave of Islamic beheadings, the US is no safer. And don’t forget, Bush lied. And he’s Hitler too.
