Pakistani agents are searching for two north African associates of a captured al-Qaida operative who is accused in the 1998 bombings of U.S. embassies in east Africa, security officials said Saturday. The suspects were identified only as a Libyan named Abu Farj and an Egyptian named Hamza. They are believed to have spent time in Pakistan with Ahmed Khalfan Ghailani, a Tanzanian caught in Pakistan on July 25 with 13 other foreigners after a shootout in the eastern city of Gujrat. Ghailani, one of the FBI’s 22 most-wanted terrorists, has a $25 million American bounty on his head stemming from his suspected involvement in the bombings of U.S. embassies in Kenya and Tanzania that killed more than 200 people, including 12 Americans. Full Story
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