Pakistani police have arrested nine suspected Islamic militants in connection with a suicide bombing at a U.S. mission and a deadly attack on French nationals in 2002, a police official said Tuesday. The arrested men belonged to the shadowy Harkat-ul Mujahideen al-Alami and included the group’s leader Syed Sohail Akhtar, alias Mustafa, said Police Chief Syed Kamal Shah. They were detained in the restive port city of Karachi in overnight raids, he said. Shah said the suspects were involved in a June 14, 2002, suicide bombing at the U.S. consulate in Karachi that killed 12 Pakistanis. The group also carried out a similar attack outside the Sheraton Hotel in Karachi in May 2002 that killed 11 French technicians. Full Story
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