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Afghans Arrest Alleged al-Qaeda Members
Monday, February 25, 2002
(10:02 PM)
Times Internet Limited

ISLAMABAD, Pakistan -- Source
Afghan security officials have arrested three alleged members of Osama Bin-Laden's al-Qaeda network, the Afghan Islamic Press (AIP) reported Monday.

The Pakistan-based private news agency quoted the official Radio Kabul on Monday as saying that the three were taken into custody on Sunday night at Mokur in southern Ghazni province on the Kabul-Kandahar highway.

The trio were named as Mullah Rahimullah, Ghulam Destgeer and Akhtar Mohammad, the agency said, quoting the radio broadcast monitored in the Pakistani city of Peshawar.

According to AIP the Kabul-Herat highway, which passes through the former Taliban stronghold of Kandahar, was dangerous and several passengers had been killed by bandits.

"Every moment there is a feeling of danger from Herat to Kandahar," a trader from the southwestern Pakistani city of Quetta said.

"There are several incidents of passenger murders in a week," he said.
(The Times of India News Source)
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