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Pakistan quizzes arrested foreigners over al-Qaeda links

AFP, Islamabad
Pakistani authorities were questioning yesterday six men with alleged links to al-Qaeda, at least three of them US citizens, on suspicion of plotting a militant strike, police said.
The men were detained Wednesday in the eastern town of Sargodha, at the home of a member of the Jaish-e-Mohammad, one of a number of militant groups active in Pakistan, which is battling a fierce Islamist insurgency.
Security officials said detainees were planning to strike "sensitive installations" in Pakistan and that maps and laptops were found, although details of die men's identities and intentions remained scant.
Muslim leaders in Washington said five of the men had been living in the state of Virginia until last month, while FBI officials said they were looking into whedier those missing students were indeed the men
being held in Pakistan.
Sargodha district police chief Usman Anwar -- who interrogated the suspects — told AFP dial they were picked up on suspicion of having links to al-Qaeda and other outlawed extremist groups in Pakistan.
"Five foreigners - two of them Pakistani-Americans, one Egyptian, one Ethiopian and one Eritrean - have been arrested," he said.
"We have also arrested Khalid Chaudhry, father of the two Pakistani-American brothers aged 22 and 25 years, who is also an American national and local leader of Jaish-e-Mohammad, for harbouring these five people."
The US embassy in Islamabad was unable to confirm that US nationals were being held in Pakistan, saying they were investigating
"We’re working on confirming idendties and nationalities. If we were to confirm they are American citizens, we
would provide consular services," said embassy spokesman Richard Snelsire.
Another senior Sargodha police official, Hasceb Shah, confirmed the arrests and nationalities, telling AFP: "A two-member FBI team has arrived in Sargodha to Interrogate the six men."
Sargodha is about 180 kilometres (110 miles) south of the capital Islamabad in the province of Punjab, which analysts say is Increasingly becoming a haven for Islamist militants.
Officials from the Council on American Islamic Relations told reporters in the United States that relatives of die men contacted the organisation on December 1 after they went missing from their homes close to the US capital.
Nihad Awad, CAlR's executive director, said the families brought along a farewell video showing one of the five men delivering a "final statement," and which included war images and Koranic verses.