Al-Qaida operative captured in Pakistan following firefight

Thursday, May 5, 2005

ISLAMABAD, Pakistan -- Acting on a tip that foreign militants had been spotted, Pakistani commandos attacked two motorcyclists -- one disguised in women's clothing -- on a dusty graveyard near a hilly, rough-and-tumble northern town in the country's farm belt.

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