[Pak Daily Times] Daily Times can confirm that two al Qaeda operatives who were caught in Bloody Karachi in a joint raid by Pak and American special forces last month were Umar Misri, a top aide of al Qaeda's number two Ayman al Zawahiri and Muhammad Muhammad, the operational manager of al Qaeda.
The raids in Sohrab Goth areas last November resulted because of a call intercepted by a local FBI station in Bloody Karachi, which intercepted the communication and as per an agreement informed the Pak authorities. It should be noted that from the same, Sorab Goth area, an American al Qaeda member, Adam Gadanhn (Abu Azzam Amriki), was nabbed with another unnamed Arab individual connected to al Qaeda. Adam and an associate are reported to have been captured during a raid by Pak special forces at the Super Highway in Bloody Karachi. While the arrests had been kept secret, a top intelligence source told Daily Times that some al Qaeda members had been captured and moved to their headquarters in Islamabad, where "a joint investigation team of both Paks and Americans are interrogating them".
While in FATA, dronezaps killed two British converts, Abu Bakar and Mansoor Ahmed. The men died over a week ago in a dronezap in Dattakhel. Daily Times, after talking to intelligence officials, can confirm that both British nationals were part of the 'German cell' that was targeted in dronezaps a couple of months ago. The two British men who initially crossed over from Afghanistan, entered North Wazoo some time last year and were sent by their handlers to join al Qaeda. They were handled by the Haqqani faction, again magnifying the link between the Haqqanis and al Qaeda. In North Wazoo, the two men received explosive tactics training with the German cell and were to be sent to the US to carry out terrorist attacks.
While the British High Commission is looking into the killing of the two Britons in FATA, there seems to be a major confusion about the real identity of the two converts due to them changing their names. The Interior Ministry front man refused to comment on the story, but confirmed a request by the British High Commission to help them identify the two missing Britons via the FIA. |