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Abu Faraj al-Libbi (n and an alleged member of the Al-Qaeda terror organization. He was arrested on May 2 , 2005 in Mardan , a town 30 miles north of Peshawar , in northwestern Pakistan. The arrest came through the joint co-operation of the U.S. and Pakistan, and was made by the Pakistani Inter-Services Intelligence service. In August 2004 Pakistani officials stated that al-Libbi (also known as Abu Faraj Farj) had become "number three" in al-Qaeda as "director of operations", a role once filled by Khalid Sheikh Mohammed . Upon al-Libbi's arrest U.S. and Pakistani authorities continued to claim him as the third most important figure in al-Qaeda. According to a BBC report, he was riding Pillion on a Motorbike when he and his driver were ambushed by Pakistani agents, some of whom were wearing Burqa s. While being apprehended, al-Libbi tried to destroy a notebook, which U.S. officials are now trying to decode. The events leading up to the ambush began with US agents intercepting a mobile phone call made by al-Libbi. They zeroed in his location to a busy road a quarter of a mile away on the outskirts of Mardan, about 75 miles northwest of Islamabad , and tipped-off Pakistani authorities. Plainclothes Pakistani agents arrived in Mardan and hung out, waiting for him to arrive. He is the chief suspect in two failed assassination attempts on the life of the Pakistan i President, General Pervez Musharraf . According to the ''New York Times'', "Mr. Libbi's suspected accomplice in those attacks was a well-known Pakistani militant named Amjad Hussain Farooqi , who was also implicated in the murder of the Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl in February 2002 . Mr. Farooqi was killed last September in a shootout with security forces in southern Pakistan." This is not the Anas Al-Liby who was indicted for an "operational role" in the bombings of two American embassies in East Africa in August 1998 . The forms 'al-Libbi' and 'al-Liby' are alternative transcriptions of the same Arabic name (الليبي), meaning "the Libyan." "When ''The Sunday Times'' contacted a senior FBI counter-terrorism official for information about the importance of the detained man, he sent material on al-Liby, the wrong man." According to European intelligence experts contacted by ''The Sunday Times'' the man was not the terrorists’ third in command. It is not known to what extent these experts were referring to Anas or to Faraj or to the man in custody by whatever name. It is known that the intelligence officials who have him in custody firmly maintain he was third in command as insisted all along. On December 1 2005 Human Rights Watch listed al-Libi as one of 26 Detainees In CIA Custody . REFERENCES |
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