Islamabad: A two-member FBI team is in
Pakistan to investigate several recent terrorist attacks in
Islamabad and nearby garrison city of Rawalpindi, including
strikes in which US nationals were killed or injured.
The FBI team visited a police station in Rawalpindi
yesterday and collected samples from a cache of arms and
explosives seized in a raid on a terrorist hideout in January.
Tight security measures were put in place when the FBI
agents went to Saddar Bairooni police station and nobody was
allowed inside during their 90-minute visit. A Pakistani
employee of the US embassy accompanied the two agents.
Additional Inspector General of Police Muhammad Aslam
Khan Tareen said the FBI agents examined explosives seized by
local police.
"They just wanted to examine it and compare it with
(explosive) material they already had," he said.
The explosives examined by the FBI team were recovered
during a raid on a terrorist hideout in Dhoke Lakhan area on
January 29. Police had then seized explosives, detonators,
potassium chlorate, grenades and two motorcycles and arrested
nine suspected terrorists. Another suspect had managed to
escape.
All the suspects belonged to Wana, the main town in the
lawless South Waziristan tribal region.
Bureau Report
