Wednesday, September 23, 2009 NEW YORK: One Pakistani amid six persons was kept into custody for 10 hours for investigations during FBI raids against the suspects in Qeens area here.Geo News correspondent, Sami Ibrahim in his report said that FBI raiding Queens area here arrested six persons, of them, included one Pakistani also. The report said that this string of raids had started, when a few days ago some Afghans were arrested in U.S. from whom such a laptop was recovered in which bomb making devices were found saved and on the basis of the information obtained from laptop, FBI raided a flat located in Queens area here and arrested the six persons present over there.The correspondent said that FBI released the five Afghans after initial interrogation, but one Pakistani, Abdul Mannan, hailing from Quetta and living in U.S. for the last 15 years, was still in their custody.
BAGHDAD: Nearly 500 U.S. Army combat engineers who specialize in clearing roads of explosives started shifting to southern Afghanistan."We are probably going to be the beginning of the influx you are going to see to Afghanistan," Lt. Col. Kevin Landers, commander of the Fort Carson, Colo.-based 4th Engineer Battalion, said as crews packed crates and cleaned vehicles for the flight to Kandahar.Obama has ordered 17,000 more U.S. soldiers and Marines to Afghanistan to bolster the 38,000 American troops already battling the resurgent Taliban."We are going to take this footprint out of Iraq," said Landers, whose battalion received word of its reassignment last month just after taking command of clearing roads in Baghdad of bombs and debris.
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