Pakistan announced on Tuesday, 17 friend, the arrest of an important "commander of Al-Qaeda", a Yemeni national, Ali Mohammed Yacoub Kassim, alias Abu Sohaib Al-Makki, to Karachi in the south. The man does not appear, however, apparently not in the lists of members of Al Qaeda's most wanted in the world, and the Pakistani army has his capture as a "major event to disentangle the al-Qaida operating in the region.
" In a statement titled "Important commander of Al Qaeda arrested in Karachi," Pakistan Army ensures that Yacoub, is "an active and important member" of Osama bin Laden, who was killed two weeks ago by an American commando in northern Pakistan. "He was arrested by security agencies in Karachi," the huge economic capital, it is written in the text does not specify when the arrest took place.
"According to preliminary investigation, Al-Makki is Yemeni and worked directly under the orders of the leaders of al-Qaida along the border between Pakistan and Afghanistan," says the army. The announcement of the arrest came after Pakistan and the United States have highlighted their desire to "restore confidence" between the two allies, after the crisis resulting from the elimination of bin Laden in a secret U.S.
operation, but in a Pakistani garrison city. They have promised and that both countries would work now "package" in case of any action against "primary target" in Pakistan. The raid against the leader of al-Qaida has caused a stir at a population overwhelmingly anti-American, not for the death of bin Laden, who has raised little protest, but for the "violation of the sovereignty "of Pakistan.
For their part, some very senior officials and U.S. lawmakers have accused the Pakistani authorities at best incompetent, at worst, complicity in highlighting the fact that the leader of al-Qaida has been hiding for years in a city that contains about ten thousand soldiers. Since the raid, Washington and Islamabad, a key ally in its "war against terrorism" since late 2001, rival warnings: the first threat to cut off funds they pay in Pakistan since late 2001, the second to review its cooperation in intelligence in the war against terrorism. 
" In a statement titled "Important commander of Al Qaeda arrested in Karachi," Pakistan Army ensures that Yacoub, is "an active and important member" of Osama bin Laden, who was killed two weeks ago by an American commando in northern Pakistan. "He was arrested by security agencies in Karachi," the huge economic capital, it is written in the text does not specify when the arrest took place.
"According to preliminary investigation, Al-Makki is Yemeni and worked directly under the orders of the leaders of al-Qaida along the border between Pakistan and Afghanistan," says the army. The announcement of the arrest came after Pakistan and the United States have highlighted their desire to "restore confidence" between the two allies, after the crisis resulting from the elimination of bin Laden in a secret U.S.
operation, but in a Pakistani garrison city. They have promised and that both countries would work now "package" in case of any action against "primary target" in Pakistan. The raid against the leader of al-Qaida has caused a stir at a population overwhelmingly anti-American, not for the death of bin Laden, who has raised little protest, but for the "violation of the sovereignty "of Pakistan.
For their part, some very senior officials and U.S. lawmakers have accused the Pakistani authorities at best incompetent, at worst, complicity in highlighting the fact that the leader of al-Qaida has been hiding for years in a city that contains about ten thousand soldiers. Since the raid, Washington and Islamabad, a key ally in its "war against terrorism" since late 2001, rival warnings: the first threat to cut off funds they pay in Pakistan since late 2001, the second to review its cooperation in intelligence in the war against terrorism.
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