(22 Jan 2009) SHOTLIST
Bara Qadeem , Khyber Agency
1. Wide of police and Frontier Corps checkpoint on road leading into Khyber tribal Agency
2. Mid of armed policeman at checkpoint
3. Wide of street in area where Pakistan security forces arrested suspected al-Qaida militants on Wednesday
4. Low angle shot of Mumtaz Khan, the brother of two of the men arrested
5. SOUNDBITE (Pashto) Mumtaz Khan, Brother of two of the men arrested:
"At seven (a.m. on Wednesday)(0200 GMT) the soldiers came and arrested people. At that time my brothers were on their way to pray, they (security forces) told them to go back inside the house. Then they entered my house and arrested my brothers."
6. Wide of people on street
7. SOUNDBITE (Pashto) Mumtaz Khan, Brother of two of the men arrested:
"We did not see any Arabs there and we haven't seen any guns or bombs or anything else with them either."
8. Wide of yard of house where arrests were made
9. Women and children huddled together
10. Mid of clothes on clothesline
11. Close of woman crying
12. Close of young girl crying
13. SOUNDBITE (Pashto) Abdullah Khan, Father of two of the men arrested:
"We don't know whether they were Arabs or not because we have no link to them. If you have no relation to somebody how can you know who they are?"
14. Close of mother of two of the men arrested, holding up photo of her son
15. Close of photo of one of the men arrested
16. Various of police and security forces at checkpoint
Islamabad
17. Wide of Special Advisor to Prime Minister on Interior Affairs, Rehman Malik posing for group photo with police academy graduates and personnel
18. Mid of Malik (centre) flanked by senior police officers
19. Malik walking with police officials
20. SOUNDBITE (English) Rehman Malik, special advisor to Prime Minister on Interior Affairs:
"They are militants. They are the enemy of humanity and therefore they will be dealt (with) according to law of the land. They are seven in number, one is foreigner and the rest of them are Pakistani."
21. Malik planting tree on police academy grounds
STORYLINE
Pakistani police, acting on a tip from US intelligence agents, arrested a man they said was an al-Qaida suspect believed to be linked to the 2005 London transit bombings, Pakistani security officials said on Thursday.
Zabi ul Taifi, a Saudi national, was among seven al-Qaida suspects detained in a raid near the main northwest city of Peshawar, the officials told The Associated Press.
Officials said an unmanned spy plane and three helicopters hovered over the area during the raid on a house on the outskirts of the city, which has long been a hub of militant activity.
The officials spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorised to speak to media.
A family living in next door to the raided house said the police stormed the neighbouring house before coming in to their own home and arresting two members of their family.
Distressed family members insisted they had had little contact with their neighbours and were unaware of the nature of their activities.
Pakistan's Interior Ministry chief Rehman Malik confirmed seven people, including one foreigner, had been arrested.
He did not identify the detainees or detail their alleged crimes.
The arrests appear to be a fresh blow to al-Qaida in Pakistan, already under fire from stepped-up US missile strikes on militant targets in Pakistani regions bordering Afghanistan.
The Afghan border is home to scores of al-Qaida and Taliban militants and is believed by some to be a likely hiding place for Osama bin Laden and other extremist leaders.
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