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Pakistan frees 'al-Qaeda suspect'
BBC
Monday Aug 20, 2007
A Pakistani computer expert alleged to have had links
with al-Qaeda has been released without charge after three years
in custody.
Mohammad Naeem Noor Khan, 25, has been reunited with
his family in the city of Karachi, officials and his lawyer said.
Mr Khan was accused of acting as a link between al-Qaeda leaders
and militants.
His detention led to the arrest of a suspect in the 1998 US embassy
bombings in East Africa, and information on terror plots in the
UK and US.
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Deputy attorney general Naheeda Mehboob Ilahi announced his release
in a Supreme Court hearing, but gave no further details.
Never charged
Mr Khan's lawyer, Babar Awan, confirmed that his client was back
with his family.
He noted that Mr Khan had been held without charge and had never
appeared in court.
Security sources told the BBC that Mr Khan had been quietly released
several weeks ago and that his home in Karachi was under surveillance.
The Supreme Court has been pressing the government for information
about hundreds of people whose relatives say were picked up by
intelligence agents in recent years.
Mr Khan was arrested in the eastern city of Lahore in July 2004.
Pakistani investigators said Mr Khan had invented secret codes,
which enabled al-Qaeda operatives to send encrypted emails and
messages via the internet.
Shortly after his arrest, police said a search of his computer
files and email records revealed an active global al-Qaeda network,
which was planning attacks in Britain, Pakistan and the US.
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