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US and Pakistani agents interrogate Taliban leader
munaeem | 04 March, 2007 06:31
Security officials said Taliban’s former defence minister is being interrogated by US and Pakistanis agents. They hope to extract valuable information from him.
“He is being interrogated by a joint team of Pakistani and US officials in Islamabad,” a senior security official said on condition of anonymity. He did not specify which US agency the officials were from.
He was was flown to the capital Islamabad by helicopter after his capture.
Mullah Obaidullah Akhund, who had a one-million-dollar bounty on his head posted by the US Central Intelligence Agency, was arrested with four other suspects on Wednesday in Quetta.
Akhund was arrested at a Quetta hotel on the basis of “very solid” intelligence, officials said. Plain-clothes agents picked him up when he arrived at the hotel where the other four suspects were already staying.
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