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Terror suspect responsible for attacks in China killed

Terror suspect responsible for attacks in China killed

Author: AP
Publication: Khaleej Times
Date: May 25, 2004
URL: http://66.234.3.46/DisplayArticle.asp?xfile=data/subcontinent/2004/May/subcontinent_May601.xml&section=subcontinent&col=class=stories

President Pervez Musharraf said yesterday that a top terror suspect responsible for several attacks in China has been killed by Pakistani security forces in the northwestern tribal region.

"He was one of the most wanted terrorists in China. He was killed here," Gen. Musharraf told a televised gathering of students in Islamabad.

President Musharraf did not identify the suspected terrorist or say precisely when or where he was killed.

Pakistan's army killed dozens of suspected terrorists, including foreigners, in an operation two months ago in Wana, a district of the South Waziristan tribal region near the border with Afghanistan.

None of the identities of foreigners killed in the March operation have been revealed. Forty-eight Pakistani troops died.

Security forces arrested 163 suspects, many of them local tribesmen who were subsequently freed. But officials said that others included Arabs, Chechens, Uzbeks and ethnic Uighurs from southwestern China.

Wary of further casualties, the Pakistani government has since been working through tribal intermediaries to get low-level Al Qaeda and Taleban militants to accept an amnesty and lay down arms. In return, they would be allowed to stay in the tribal regions.

No foreigners have accepted the offer. Gen. Musharraf said yesterday that the Pakistani army remains present in South Waziristan and warned that the fugitives would be eliminated if they do not surrender.

"I know that Al Qaeda people are hiding there," he said. "I am 500 per cent certain."
 


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