{"id":922,"date":"2006-05-26T11:48:01","date_gmt":"2006-05-26T11:48:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/amrani.cc\/wp\/?p=922"},"modified":"2006-05-26T11:48:01","modified_gmt":"2006-05-26T11:48:01","slug":"2006-5-26-at-least-1000-al-qaeda-suspects-nabbed-in-pakistan-new-study-html","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/amrani.cc\/wp\/?p=922","title":{"rendered":"At least 1,000 Al-Qaeda suspects nabbed in Pakistan, new study reveals"},"content":{"rendered":"<div data-src=\"v5\">A recently published <u><a title=\"PIPS Study on arrests in Pakistan\" href=\"http:\/\/www.pips.com.pk\/Pakistan\/AlQaida.asp\">study<\/a><\/u> by a Pakistani think-tank revealed there were at least 1,000 Al-Qaeda suspects picked up in Pakistan over the past four years.<\/p>\n<p>The study, conducted by the Pak Institute for Peace Studies, based on monitoring media reports, disputed the official figure, of 660 detainees, given previously by the Pakistani government:<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153Pakistani security agencies arrested more than 1,000 al-Qaeda suspects between January 2002 and May 2006. Of them, 70 came from Algeria, 86 from Saudi Arabia, 20 from Morocco, 22 from the United Arab Emirates, 11 from Libya, 7 from Kuwait, 20 from Egypt, 28 from Indonesia, 18 from Malaysia, and 36 from the West Asian countries. They also included 18 citizens of Western countries: 5 from the United States, 2 from Australia, and 11 from the United Kingdom. They also included an unknown number of French and German citizens.\u00e2\u20ac\ufffd<\/p>\n<p>The study excluded the Afghani and Pakistani suspects nabbed by the security forces.<\/p>\n<p>There were reports since the start of the manhunt for al-Qaeda suspects that the Pakistani intelligence services were exaggerating the importance of many of the detained Arab detainees, to appease the US and gain more financial and political support for <a title=\"General's Profile\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Pervez_Musharraf\">General Pervez Musharraf\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s<\/a> regime. There were occasions too when the Pakistanis handed the Americans ordinary Arabs, not involved in politics, as \u00e2\u20ac\u0153high value al-Qaeda targets.\u00e2\u20ac\ufffd<\/p>\n<p>Pakistan was also the destination for several <u><a title=\"HRW Rendition report\" href=\"http:\/\/hrw.org\/reports\/2005\/egypt0505\/\">rendition<\/a><\/u> flights, in and out, that ferried Islamist terror suspects to interrogation centers in the Middle East and other locations.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div data-src=\"v5\">A recently published <u><a title=\"PIPS Study on arrests in Pakistan\" href=\"http:\/\/www.pips.com.pk\/Pakistan\/AlQaida.asp\">study<\/a><\/u> by a Pakistani think-tank revealed there were at least 1,000 Al-Qaeda suspects picked up in Pakistan over the past four years.<br \/>\nThe study, conducted by the Pak Institute for Peace Studies, based on monitoring media reports, disputed the official figure, of 660 detainees, given previously by the Pakistani government:<br \/>\n\u00e2\u20ac\u0153Pakistani security agencies arrested more than 1,000 al-Qaeda suspects between January 2002 and May 2006. Of them, 70 came from Algeria, 86 from Saudi Arabia, 20 from Morocco, 22 from the United Arab Emirates, 11 from Libya, 7 from Kuwait, 20 from Egypt, 28 from Indonesia, 18 from Malaysia, and 36 from the West Asian countries. They also included 18 citizens of Western countries: 5 from the United States, 2 from Australia, and 11 from the United Kingdom. They also included an unknown number of French and German citizens.\u00e2\u20ac\ufffd<br \/>\nThe study excluded the Afghani and Pakistani suspects nabbed by the security forces.<br \/>\nThere were reports since the start of the manhunt for al-Qaeda suspects that the Pakistani intelligence services were exaggerating the importance of many of the detained Arab detainees, to appease the US and gain more financial and political support for <a title=\"General's Profile\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Pervez_Musharraf\">General Pervez Musharraf\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s<\/a> regime. There were occasions too when the Pakistanis handed the Americans ordinary Arabs, not involved in politics, as \u00e2\u20ac\u0153high value al-Qaeda targets.\u00e2\u20ac\ufffd<br \/>\nPakistan was also the destination for several <u><a title=\"HRW Rendition report\" href=\"http:\/\/hrw.org\/reports\/2005\/egypt0505\/\">rendition<\/a><\/u> flights, in and out, that ferried Islamist terror suspects to interrogation centers in the Middle East and other locations.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[225,226],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/amrani.cc\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/922"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/amrani.cc\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/amrani.cc\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/amrani.cc\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/amrani.cc\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=922"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/amrani.cc\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/922\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/amrani.cc\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=922"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/amrani.cc\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=922"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/amrani.cc\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=922"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}