MJ Martin (4 Nov 2005)
"Key al-Qaida figure reportedly captured"


Key al-Qaida figure reportedly captured
MSNBC  | Nov. 3, 2005 | Lisa Myers, Jim Popkin and Robert Windrem
 

WASHINGTON - A key figure in al-Qaida’s terror network in Europe with a $5 million bounty offered by U.S. authorities on his head has been arrested, U.S. counterterrorism officials tell NBC News.
 

Two U.S. officials, speaking on condition of anonymity, said that the alleged terrorist, Mustafa Setmariam Nasar, also known as Abu Musab al-Suri, is an expert in explosives and chemicals who trained recruits at al-Qaida terror camps in Afghanistan before the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks in the United States.
 

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