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Pakistani Religious Leader Arrested for 'Links to bin Laden'
Sunday, December 23, 2001
Out There News

ISLAMABAD, Pakistan -- OTN
Pakistani law enforcement agencies on Sunday arrested a key religious leader here as part of their ongoing crackdown against religious and Jihadi organizations.

Islamabad police arrested Ghazi Abdul Rasheed, the deputy Khateeb (prayer leader) of the central mosque in the federal capital and a key leader of Afghan Defense Council Pakistan (ADCP), in connection with alleged links to Osama bin Laden and his Al-Qaeda network.

"We have arrested Ghazi Rasheed for his alleged connection with Al-Qaeda, and we are interrogating him," a senior official of the Islamabad police told Out There News on condition of anonymity.
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