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Al-Qaeda fugitive detained by Pakistan (PAUL GARWOOD, 5/02/06, Associated Press)

A top al-Qaeda leader whose links stretch from Afghan terror training camps to extremist networks operating throughout Europe has been detained in neighbouring Pakistan and possibly handed over to American authorities, according to a U.S. law enforcement official.

Mustafa Setmarian Nasar, a Syrian who also holds Spanish citizenship, was captured in a November, 2005, sting in the southwestern Pakistani city of Quetta that left one person dead, said the American official, who declined to be identified further because the matter is sensitive.

The official, who spoke to the Associated Press late last week, said Mr. Nasar, who is also known as Abu Musab al-Suri, may now be in U.S. custody but did not specify where. He declined to comment further.