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A rchive Date
[ 20-07-2005 ]
Category
[ International Relations ]
sub-Categoy
[ Britain ]
      [http://cnews.canoe.ca/CNEWS/World/2005/07/20/1139675-ap.html

      London crackdown nets arrests
      July 20, 2005

      KARACHI, (AP) - Police have detained a man with direct links to the London bombings, amid a crackdown that has led to the arrests of dozens of suspected militants, an intelligence official said Wednesday.

      "We have an important man in our custody," the senior intelligence official told The Associated Press on condition of anonymity. "I am not in a position to disclose his name right now, but the maximum that I can tell you is that he has some direct links with the London attacks."

      Speaking in the eastern city of Lahore, the official declined to say when the man was arrested, or elaborate on his alleged links with the London bombings.

      "We have apprehended several suspects, more arrests are in the offing," Lahore police chief Tariq Salim said. "It will continue until they are rooted out."

      Authorities say they are holding at least seven people suspected of links to the London bombers.

      The rest were detained on suspicion of unrelated crimes within Pakistan.

      Police raided homes, mosques and Islamic seminaries to make the arrests.

      Investigators are trying to determine whether the London bombers received training or other assistance from extremists in Pakistan.

      Security officials believe one of the London bombers spent a few days at a religious school in Lahore, a city in Pakistan where many militant groups have clandestine operations.

      Police say 28 people in Karachi were detained, including a senior figure in Pakistan's largest Islamic group, Jamaat-e-Islami, and a cleric allegedly linked with Sipah-e-Sahaba, a Sunni Muslim group banned for suspected involvement in attacks against Shiite Muslims, a minority in Pakistan.

      Another 35 people were detained in the eastern province of Punjab and dozens were detained late Tuesday in Pakistan's capital, Islamabad, police sources said on condition of anonymity.

      Authorities reported the detention of nearly 100 people on Tuesday, days after President Gen. Pervez Musharraf renewed a pledge to eliminate religious extremism amid concern that Islamic schools in Pakistan promote militancy.

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