Report: Top Bin Laden deputy caught in Pakistan

Report: Top Bin Laden deputy caught in Pakistan


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JPost.com Staff, THE JERUSALEM POST Sep. 27, 2004

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Top Bin Laden deputy Ayman al-Zawahri has been caught
in Pakistan, according to a report from the region
quoted on Israel Radio Monday.

Pakistani forces operating against al Qaida
strongholds in the country report capturing the
Egyptian national, who was formerly the head of the
Egyptian Islamic Jihad, which operated in the past
against the Egyptian regime.

Earlier Monday, the US commander of coalition forces
in Afghanistan Lieutenant-General David Barno told
Reuters that there is little evidence of al Qaida
fighters still in Afghanistan, and that Pakistan's
crackdown on al Qaida-linked operatives has made life
harder for fugitives hiding in tribal areas near the
Afghan - Pakistani border.