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Did Pak Stage Khalid arrest? 

REUTERS TUESDAY, MARCH 11, 2003

ISLAMABAD : A grainy video purporting to show the
arrest of two al-Qaida leaders has done little to
deflect accusations that Pakistan may have staged
this month’s raid to give it leeway to abstain in
a UN vote on an Iraq war.

On Monday, the ISI held an unprecedented news
conference to show foreign journalists what it
said were images of a March 1 raid in Rawalpindi
that netted al-Qaida kingpin Khalid Sheikh
Mohammed.

But few of journalists present were convinced the
video —which did not show Mohammed’s face nor any
sign of a struggle —was genuine.

On Tuesday, former ISI chief Hamid Gul said he
believed Mohammed was actually arrested some time
ago in a different city.

“They are trying to cover up,” he said. “I believe
he was arrested before, probably in Karachi .” One
intelligence source said Mohammed had been
arrested three days before, from the Tench Batta
suburb of Rawalpindi.

Gul said news of the arrest appeared to have been
leaked at a critical time, just as Pakistan was
facing huge US pressure to support a UN Security
Council vote authorising war on Iraq.

Meanwhile, Pakistan has arrested 10 men in
Peshawar for suspected al-Qaida links and an
intelligence source says one was believed to have
had contact with Osama bin Laden.
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