Pakistan arrests senior Qaeda leader

A senior al-Qaeda leader has been arrested in southwest Pakistan along with two other high-ranking operatives for the global terror network, the army announced yesterday.
Younis al-Mauritani, who was involved in planning and carrying out international operations, was picked up in the suburbs of the southwestern city of Quetta, the military said in a statement.
Cooperation between the CIA and Pakistan's Inter-Services Intelligence agency led to the arrests by the paramilitary, it said, without saying when Mauritani was detained.
It named the two other senior operatives as Abdul Ghaffar al-Shami and Messara al-Shami.