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Pakistan police arrest 16 suspected al-Qaeda extremists
Police in Pakistan say they have arrested 16 mostly Arab men suspected of having links to Osama bin Laden's al-Qaeda group during raids in the eastern city of Lahore.
Police say the men, detained for illegally entering Pakistan from Afghanistan, were being interrogated over their suspected membership in bin Laden's global terror network.
Senior police deny that U-S law enforcement agencies were engaged in the raid, which came less than a week after a joint US-Pakistani police operation in Lahore and Faisalabad netted some 29 al-Qaeda suspects.
America's Secretary of Defense, Donald Rumsfeld, neither confirmed nor denied that U-S forces were holding Abu Zubaydah, believed to be a key bin Laden deputy, following last week's joint raids.
02/04/2002 19:01:00 | ABC Radio Australia News
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