Militant wanted in US consulate bombing arrested

Описание: (18 Nov 2004)

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1. Exterior of US Consulate following car bomb blast showing large hole blown in compound wall, pan to emergency services and onlookers
2. Security forces standing on guard at hole in compound wall
3. Wreckage of van
4. Various of emergency services

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5. Still of two looks of Naveed-ul-Hasan
6. Still of Naveed-ul-Hasan with beard
7. Still of Naveed-ul-Hasan with lighter beard and larger glasses

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8. Emergency services, pan to officers examining damaged van
9. Officers examining damaged van
10. Wreckage of white jeep
11. US flag above consulate, pull out to exterior of consulate with ambulances in foreground

STORYLINE:

Pakistan has announced the arrest of a suspect wanted for a deadly bombing near the US Consulate in Karachi two years ago.

Interior Minister Aftab Khan Sherpao said authorities arrested Naveed-ul Hasan, an alleged member of the outlawed militant group Harkat-ul-Mujahedeen al-Alami, near Pakistan's main border checkpoint with India at Wagah, near the eastern city of Lahore.

Sherpao said Hasan was wanted for the suicide bombing near the US Consulate in Karachi that killed 14 Pakistanis in June 2002, and another smaller blast during New Year's celebrations in 2002 at a popular club in the city that wounded at least nine people.

He said Hasan, who had a two million rupee (33,300 US dollar) bounty on his head, had been running a clothing shop near Wagah for the last few months.

Since July, Pakistan says it has rounded up dozens of terror suspects in towns and cities around the country, even as it wages a bloody military campaign against al-Qaida-linked militants along its lawless border with Afghanistan.

In the past three years, Pakistan has handed over to the United States about 600 al-Qaida suspects.

The counter-terrorism efforts of Pakistani President General Pervez Musharraf have made him a key ally of the West against religious extremism, but drawn criticism at home from those uneasy at his strong ties with Washington.

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