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Al Qaeda mastermind was 'planning more attacks'

AFP, Islamabad
Khalid Shaikh Mohammed, the suspected mastermind of the September 11 terrorist attacks, was expected to be interrogated in US custody Monday amid reports that he was planning further strikes.
Officials said that Mohammed remained in Pakistan after his capture over the weekend in a raid in the northern city of Rawalpindi, but Information Minister Sheikh Rashid indicated that he could soon be transferred.
"Up until last (Sunday) night he was with us in Pakistan," Rashid told AFP.
"He was being interrogated by the joint Pakistani and US investigation team somewhere in the Islamabad-Rawalpindi region," he said referring to the capital and the nearby crowded garrison city where Mohammed was captured before dawn on Saturday.
Rashid said Mohammed "could be" flown out of Pakistan Monday.
"He is here in Pakistan in US custody," a security official told AFP, asking not to be named.
"He is such a mastermind, if we felt that he is wanted by a country where he committed some crime, we should not take a big risk" of keeping him in Pakistan, he said.
The arrest of Mohammed, considered number three in the al-Qaeda network after Osama bin Laden and his Egyptian deputy Ayman al-Zawahri, is one of the biggest coups of the 18-month war on terrorism.
Security officials said he was handed over to US custody late Saturday or early Sunday, and one senior military official said there had been a plan to fly him to the US military base at Bagram in Afghanistan early Sunday. However he was unable to confirm whether the plan went ahead.
Mohammed is believed to be al-Qaeda's operational director and the architect of the September 2001 attacks when four hijacked planes ploughed into New York's World Trade Center, the Pentagon and a field in Pennsylvania, killing more than 3,000 people. Mohammed is an uncle of Ramzi Yousef -- convicted over the 1993 bomb attack on New York's World Trade Center -- and he is also believed to have been planning fresh terror strikes.
According to Newsweek magazine, Mohammed was planning more attacks on US soil.
A February 26 intelligence report obtained by the latest edition of the news weekly said Mohammed "is actively involved in al-Qaeda attack planning in Conus (continental US)," according to the magazine's March 10 issue.
"He has directed operatives to target bridges, gas stations, and power plants in a number of local tions, including New York City," the report said.
The al-Qaeda leader had already been involved in planning additional attacks in the United States on September 11, 2001 but a ploy by network operatives to seize tanker trucks and crash them at filling stations, as well as to slash suspension cables on bridges, never came off.
The perceived risk posed by Mohammed led the Bush administration to raise the threat level to Code Orange three weeks ago. The alert was reduced to Code Yellow last week.