PAKISTAN: A PAKISTANI ANTI-TERRORIST COURT IN KARACHI HAS REMANDED FOR A WEEK TWO OF THE SIX SUSPECTS ACCUSED OF HAVING LINKS WITH AL-QAEDA

Record ID: 352127

  • Title: PAKISTAN: A PAKISTANI ANTI-TERRORIST COURT IN KARACHI HAS REMANDED FOR A WEEK TWO OF THE SIX SUSPECTS ACCUSED OF HAVING LINKS WITH AL-QAEDA
  • Date: 3rd May 2003
  • Summary: (W3) KARACHI, PAKISTAN (MAY 3, 2003) (REUTERS) 1. SV PEOPLE GATHERED IN COURT LOBBY 0.03 2. SV ACCUSED MOHAMMED ANWAR ALIAS JABBAR AND HABIBULLAH ALIAS ABDUL SALAM, WITH A BLANKET OVER THEIR HEADS SITTING WITH POLICE GUARDS 0.09 3. SV MASKED ACCUSED 0.13 4. SV POLICE AND PLAIN CLOTHED OFFICIALS STANDING OUTSIDE THE COURT ROOM 0.18
  • Embargoed: 18th May 2003 13:00
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  • Location: KARACHI, PAKISTAN
  • Country: Pakistan
  • Reuters ID: LVA44GEA2VHBLVPNK18JH4FQ1MMH
  • Story Text: A Pakistani anti-terrorism court in southern port city
    of Karachi has remanded for a week two of the six suspects
    accused of having links with al-Qaeda network.



    The judicial magistrate of an anti-terrorism court in
    southern Karachi on Saturday (May 3) gave six days' remand to
    two out of the six suspects arrested for alleged links to
    al-Qaeda terrorist network.

    The accused Mohammed Anwar alias Jabbar and Habibullah
    alias Abdul Salam were brought to the court amid strict
    security.

    They had been arrested with a vehicle loaded with 134 kilo
    explosives, TT pistols and other ammunition, in the outskirts
    of Karachi on Tuesday (April 28).

    On Tuesday (April 28) Pakistani security forces also
    arrested four other alleged al-Qaeda members including a
    Yemeni national Waleed Muhammad Bin Attash, alias Khalid
    Al-Attash, believed to have been involved in attack on the
    U.S. warship Cole in Yemen in 2000, in a raid in Karachi.

    Two others suspected al-Qaeda natonals, Jawad al-Bashar
    and Fardin Shah were arrested in Pakistan's western province
    Balochistan on Thursday (May 1) on the information suplied by
    the suspected terror network's activists previously arrested
    in Karachi.

    One of them is believed to be an Egyptian and the other an
    Afghan national. Maps of sensitive installations in Gwadar
    Port, Balochistan and Miran Shah airport were also recovered
    from them.

    Jawad al-Bashar is suspected of being a close aide of
    Khalid Shaikh Mohammed, top al-Qaeda leader, arrested in
    Rawalpindi in March.

    And on saturday, two foreign national al-Qaeda suspects,
    believed to be Egyptian were arrested in Karachi.

    Yemen has asked Pakistan to hand over Waleed Muhammad Bin
    Attash, alias Khalid Al-Attasha, a government official said
    later on Saturday.

    The official said he was wanted for questioning regarding
    the U.S. warship bombing.

    The suicide attack on the Cole in Aden port killed 17 U.S.

    sailors.

    Washington said it believed Attash was also involved in
    planning the September 11, 2001, attacks on U.S. cities,
    blamed on al Qaeda.

    Yemen, the ancestral home of al Qaeda leader Osama bin
    Laden, is trying to shed its image as a haven for Islamic
    militants. It has arrested dozens of militants and suspected
    supporters of al Qaeda.


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