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.
BEIRUT: Thousands of people converged Saturday on central Beirut to mark the fourth anniversary of the assassination of Lebanese former premier Rafiq Hariri.Waving Lebanese flags and carrying pictures of the slain leader, men, women and children gathered under sunny skies in Martyr's Square where members of the parliamentary majority were to address the crowd. The rally comes as final preparations are underway in The Hague for the launch of the international tribunal set up to bring Hariri's killers to justice. It also comes as the country prepares for legislative elections in June that will pit Western-backed political parties against a Hezbollah-led alliance backed by Syria and Iran.Hariri died in a massive car bombing on February 14, 2005 that also killed 22 others. The assassination was widely blamed on then Lebanese power-broker Syria, which has denied any involvement. The attack on the Beirut seafront was one of the worst acts of political violence to rock Lebanon since t...
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