A senior Al-Qaeda leader has been arrested along with two other high-ranking operatives, the army announced on Monday.
Younis al-Mauritani, who was involved in planning and carrying out international operations, was picked up in the suburbs of Quetta, the military said in a statement.
Cooperation between the CIA and Pakistan’s Inter-Services Intelligence agency led to the arrests by the paramilitary, it said, without saying when Mauritani was detained.
“In an intelligence-driven operation by Inter-Services Intelligence in coordination with Frontier Corps Balochistan, a senior Al-Qaeda leader, Younis al-Mauritani, mainly responsible for planning and conduct of international operations, was nabbed,” the statement said.
It named the two other senior operatives as Abdul Ghaffar al-Shami and Messara al-Shami.
“Al-Mauritani was tasked personally by Osama bin Laden to focus on hitting targets of economical importance in United States of America, Europe and Australia,” the army said.
“He was planning to target United States economic interests including gas/oil pipelines, power generating dams and strike ships/oil tankers through explosive-laden speed boats in international waters.”
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