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(回答先: 【声を失った】 逮捕されたハリド・シェイク・ムハマド氏はＦＢＩ手配写真の男とはまったくの別人！！ ［ＢＢＣニュース］ 【追認を求む】 投稿者 あっしら 日時 2003 年 3 月 04 日 01:18:52)
Pakistan says it has no plans to hand a top al-Qaeda suspect to the United States after his arrest on its territory at the weekend.
Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, the suspected planner of the 11 September 2001 attacks on the US, was arrested in a joint Pakistani-CIA operation near the capital, Islamabad, and is now in Pakistani police custody.
"We have no plans to hand him over to the Americans," Pakistani Interior Minister Faisal Saleh Hayat told the BBC, suggesting that he might be handed over to Kuwait, his country of origin.
BBC security correspondent Frank Gardner says Sheikh Mohammed is now being questioned jointly by Pakistani and US intelligence officers.
The US considers Sheikh Mohammed such a senior figure within al-Qaeda that they will insist on access to him, intelligence sources say.
To gain that access, the al-Qaeda figure does not necessarily have to be on American soil.
Joint operation
Mr Hayat said that his police wanted first to question the 37-year-old suspect, who was picked up in a dawn raid with two other people, about his activities in Pakistan.
The minister also insisted that the suspect was still in Pakistan, dismissing earlier reports that he had been taken out of the country.
That's fantastic!
President Bush
"He is very much in Pakistan," the minister said, describing the arrest as a "big step forward in eliminating al-Qaeda" from his country.
Sheikh Mohammed's whereabouts are not being disclosed. The identity of an Arab man picked up with him is being worked out.
Washington has described him as one of al-Qaeda leader Osama Bin Laden's "most senior and significant lieutenants".
The Pakistani security minister added that his country and the US were "responsible partners in the global war against terror" and shared intelligence.
Intelligence sources say the successful arrest of the suspect was very much a joint operation.
Pakistan's Information Minister, Sheikh Rashid, said the arrest became possible after a telephone conversation picked up by a satellite revealed that Sheikh Mohammed would be in Rawalpindi on Saturday.
Pressure off
The suspect's capture in a bloodless operation at a suburban house in the city prompted joy in the US Government.
"That's fantastic!" was President George W Bush's reported reaction to the news.
Mr Mohammed has long been on the FBI's most wanted list, and the US had recently increased the reward for his capture to $25m.
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On Sunday, his picture on the website showed a red strip over the front marking that he had been located.
BBC Pentagon correspondent Nick Childs says that Bush administration has been under pressure at home from critics who complain it has neglected the hunt for al-Qaeda as it focused on Iraq, and the arrest will take some of that heat off.
Mr Mohammed has been indicted in America for plotting to blow up American commercial airliners in the Philippines in the mid-1990s.
Rashid Qureshi, a spokesman for Pakistan's President Pervez Musharraf, described the Kuwaiti as "the kingpin of al-Qaeda".
Hunt for al-Qaeda
US intelligence agents have been hunting remnants of Afghanistan's former Taleban regime and Osama Bin Laden's al-Qaeda network since the US-led military action in Afghanistan in late 2001.
Hundreds of al-Qaeda militants and former Taleban leaders are thought to have fled into Pakistan since US-led forces launched the strikes following the 11 September attacks.
The whereabouts of Bin Laden remain unknown
Among senior al-Qaeda suspects subsequently arrested are:
Ramzi Binalshibh, a Yemeni national, who is alleged to have been one of the main planners of the attacks in Washington and New York and is now in US custody.
Abu Zubaydah, thought to have been Bin Laden's field commander and handed over to the US after his capture in March 2002; he is said to have been co-operating with investigators and is thought to have been the source behind many of America's terror warnings since the 11 September attacks.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/2813245.stm
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