Al-Qaeda's 12 Members Arrested From Big Cities, Contacts With Al-Zawahri Revealed

Twelve AlQaeda members have been arrested from Islamabad and central Punjab. They revealed their contacts with AlQaeda;s top leader AlZawahri. They also disclosed that operational wing of Al Qaeda has been involved in dozens of terrorists' activities. Informed sources said that four suspects were arrested from a religious school of Amar Pura Lahore by secret agencies. They were arrested on the indentification of accused already taken in custody from Islamabad. According to sources Satureday morning law-enforcing agencies arrested Qari Shafique and Qari Shakeel, including four other persons in a raid from Jamia Kausaria Hanfia, Rawalpindi. The local police remained uninformed from the arrests. According to police the operational group of Alqaeda was involved in carrying out terrorists' activities at Mananwaan police Training Center Lahore, attack on FIA office, several activities in Islamabad and Rawalpindi, like attack on Denmark Embassy, throwing of hand granade on a foreign restaurant, NATO terminal attack and suicidal attack on POF Wah cantt. This group was also involved in the killing of former minister shahbaz Bhatti and proscuter FIA chaudhary Zulfiqar. Sources said that these groups remain in contacts all the time. It consists og two wings called information and operational wings. However, operational wing carries ot terrorists' activities. This network began coming to light when on August 20, a GateWay Exchange was raided in Green Town Sialkot. A explosive laden vehicle was recoved from suberban area Bhara Khoh of Islamabad during a grand opration. This raid resulted in a big success in the shape of arrest of Hammad Adil belonging to an influential family. He is the brother of SP Kamran Adil of Punjab police and is an active member of Al Qaeda network. On the disclosure of Hammad Adil explosive filled toys and toy planes were recovered and an accusee Shoeb Andrabi was arrsted from Gilani house located in Khayaban e Kashmir of Tanole area. On the revelation of Hammad, two suspects including one foreignner belonging to Alqaeda were arrrested from Punjab University. The raids for arrsting the other members of the network was extended to whole of Punjab province on the diclosures of arrested group members. Four important Alqaeda members were arrested from Gujrat and Gijranwala including a medial doctor and his son. The arrests of six Alqaeda members of a seven member group from Lahore and Hammad Adil, his brother Adnaan Adil, Shoeb Andaraabi and Abdullah Umar from Islamabad are considered a great success. Police claimed that after the arrests and recovering of explosives and other fatal weapons the network involved in terrorists' activities has weakened. Meanwhile two brothrs who are engineers have been arrested from Faisal Town Gujrat suspicious of having cntacts with Alqaeda and shifted to an unknown place. They were also involved with the telephone exchange of Al Qaeda raided in Sialkot.