Pakistan’s intelligence agency says it has detained 3 al-Qaida members close to Afghanistan

ISLAMABAD — Working with the CIA, Pakistani spies arrested three members of al-Qaida, including a top operative alleged to have been tasked by Osama bin Laden with targeting American economic interests around the world, Pakistan's army said Monday.

The arrest of Younis al-Mauritani close to the Afghan border is another blow to al-Qaida, which is still reeling following the deaths of bin Laden on May 2 in an American raid and the organization's second-in-command, Atiyah Abd al-Rahman, in a CIA missile strike last month.

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Greg Jaffe 05 Sep, 2011


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