KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — NATO says it has captured a senior
al-Qaida facilitator and former Osama bin Laden associate in northern
Afghanistan.
In a statement Thursday, NATO says the facilitator
was based in Pakistan and is a former associate of bin Laden, who was
killed in a U.S. raid in Pakistan on May 2. NATO says the man may have
been with the al-Qaida leader in 2001.
NATO did not release the
detainee's name and or other details except to say he was captured
Wednesday during an operation in Nahri Shahi, in northern Balkh
province.
NATO said the man is one of several senior al-Qaida and
Taliban insurgents captured in the province since February. It said a
total of 35 people associated with al-Qaida and the Taliban have been
captured in Balkh during that period. AP
