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Top Pakistani
al-Qaida suspect
killed in raid
By Zarar Khan
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
KARACHI, Pakistan
Paramilitary police killed
a suspected top al-Qaida op
erative Sunday in a four-hour
gunbattle at a house in south
ern Pakistan that also led to the
arrest of two other men, the in
formation minister said.
Amjad Hussain Farooqi had
been wanted for his alleged
role in the kidnapping and be
heading of Wall Street Journal
reporter Daniel Pearl in 2002
and two assassination attempts
against President Gen. Pervez
Musharraf in December 2003.
“I as chief spokesman
for the government of Paki
stan confirm that our forces
have killed Amjad Hussain
Farooqi,” Information Min
ister Sheikh Rashid Ahmed
told The Associated Press
by phone from Amsterdam,
where he has gone on an of
ficial trip with Musharraf.
Ahmed said “two or three
other people were also ar
rested during a big gunfight.”
le declined to identify them
but said they were still being
questioned by authorities and
were “very important.”
An intelligence official
Karachi identified the ar
rested men as Abdul Rehman
and Yaqoob Farooqi. It was
not clear what relation, if any,
Yaqoob Farooqi had to Amjad
Hussain Farooqi.
Pakistan is a key ally of the
United States in its war against
terrorism and has arrested more
than 600 al-Qaida suspects, in
cluding several senior figures
in the terror network. Many of
them have been handed over to
U.S. authorities.
Since mid-July, Pakistan says
it has arrested at least 70 terror
ist suspects, including Moham
med Naeem Noor Khan, an al
leged al-Qaida computer expert
and Ahmed Khalfan Ghailani,
Tanzanian suspect in the 1998
bombings of U.S. embassies in
east Africa that killed more than
200 people.
Earlier Sunday, intelli
gence officials said authorities
launched a raid on the house
in Nawabshah, a town about
125 miles northeast of the main
southern city of Karachi, after
police received a tip that Farooq
was hiding there.
A paramilitary official
speaking on condition of ano
nymity, said the siege lasted
four hours.
The official said the suspect
who was killed — presumably
Amjad Hussain Farooqi — had
shouted in Urdu, the main lan
guage in Pakistan, that he’d
prefer death to capture. The sus
pect also pointed to the sky and
shouted: “I fulfilled my promise
to Allah,” he said.
Farooqi was believed to have
been an associate of Khalid
Shaikh Mohammed, the reput
ed al-Qaida No. 3 captured in
Pakistan last year.
Farooqi had been missing
since Pearl was abducted in Ka
rachi in January 2002.
Farooqi is also suspected of
taking part in the hijacking of an
Indian airliner to Kandahar, Af
ghanistan, in 1999 that resulted
in a hostages-for-prisoners ex
change that freed British-born
militant Ahmed Omar Saeed
Sheikh from an Indian prison.
Sheikh has been sentenced to
death for his role in setting up
the Pearl abduction.
Relief efforts in aftermath of
Jeanne topple those of 9-11
By Deborah Hastings
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
HUTCHINSON ISLAND,
Fla. — Jeanne, Florida’s fourth
hurricane in six weeks, piled on
destruction in already ravaged
areas Sunday, slicing across the
state with howling wind that
rocketed debris from earlier
storms and torrents of rain that
turned streets into rivers.
At least five people died in the
storm, which was a cruel rerun
for many still trying to recover
from earlier hurricanes. Jeanne
came ashore in the same area hit
three weeks ago by Hurricane
Frances and was headed for the
Panhandle, where 70,000 homes
and businesses remained with
out power because of Hurricane
Ivan 10 days earlier.
The storm peeled roofs off
buildings, toppled light poles,
destroyed a deserted commu
nity center in Jensen Beach and
flooded some bridges from the
mainland to the Atlantic coast’s
barrier islands. More than 1.5
million homes and businesses
were without power.
“The last three weeks have
been horrific,” said Joe Stawara,
owner of a Vero Beach mobile
home park where about half
the 232 trailers were damaged.
“And just when we start to turn
the comer, this happens.”
Until Sunday, no state had
suffered a four-hurricane pound
ing in one season since Texas in
1886. And the hurricane season
still has two months to go.
Rain blew sideways in wind
that reached 120 mph when the
hurricane’s eye hit land shortly
after midnight; by 5 p.m. EDT it
had weakened to a strong tropi
cal storm, with sustained wind
near 65 mph.
At least a foot of water rushed
through some streets in Vero
Beach, where a mattress floated
through one neighborhood.
The hurricanes have prompt
ed the largest relief effort in the
Federal Emergency Manage
ment Agency’s history, eclips
ing responses for the 1994 earth
quake in Northridge, Calif, and
the 2001 terrorist attacks, direc
tor Michael Brown said.
Frances was larger, while
Charley and Ivan were more
powerful. But Jeanne was bad
enough, once again sending
the Sunshine State into a state
of emergency.
Gov. Jeb Bush sought to re
assure weary Floridians. “This
will become a memory,” he said.
“This (will) come to an end, and
when it does we can probably
use the term ‘normal’ again.”
Seawater submerged the bot
tom floor of condominiums on
Hutchinson Island, where Josh
Lumberson rode out the storm.
The parking lot was under 5 feet
of sand and water, and sand rose
to the kitchen cabinets inside
first-floor condos. The ocean,
once 75 yards away, lapped at
the foundation.
“It sounded like the whole
building was coming down,”
Lumberson said. “You could
hear every metal screw coming
out of the walls.”
As the wind subsided, the
clang of metal siding could still
be heard on the barrier island.
Jeanne made landfall as a Cat
egory 3 hurricane with winds of
up to 120 mph just before mid
night Saturday at Hutchinson
Island, 35 miles north of West
Palm Beach. Frances struck in
almost the same spot.
Once inland, Jeanne’s 400-
mile diameter system trudged
across the state, passing north
east of Tampa. It then headed to
ward the Panhandle, which was
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and south to Miami, where one
person was electrocuted after
touching a downed power line.
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