Pakistanis seize al-Qaida suspects in gun battle
Thursday, September 12, 2002
KARACHI, Pakistan -- Police commandos fought a pitched battle with al-Qaida suspects holed up in an apartment Wednesday, with combat spilling out onto adjoining rooftops. Two suspects were killed and five captured in the fighting, as Pakistan stepped up pressure on the remnants of the terrorist movement a year after it made its mark on the world.
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