Al-Qaeda member admitted to hospital

Published December 31, 2001

KOHAT, Dec 30: One of the three sick Al-Qaeda prisoners was admitted to a local hospital on Saturday amid tight security, it is learnt.

The security at the hospital has been strengthened.

All the three prisoners were first blind-folded and then taken to the hospital in an army vehicle for medical check-up. The names of the Al-Qaeda members could not be ascertained.

Meanwhile, personal files of about 50 Al-Qaeda men had been prepared so far in the wake of interrogation being conducted by an intelligence agency personnel.

It may be mentioned that after the FBI team, which left on Friday, another team of intelligence personnel started interrogating the Arabs and the French on Saturday.

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