Pakistan Claims to Capture a Senior Al-Qaeda Leader

ISLAMABAD: Pakistan has announced that a “senior al Qaeda leader” named Younis al- Mauritani, who was responsible for conducting international operations and ordered by Osama bin Laden to hit US, European and Australian economic targets, has been captured.

Pakistani Military has also said the capture was helped by the United States through Inter-Services Intelligence which suggest that severd ties heavily damaged by the killing of bin Laden are improving.

Recoverd Files Show Close ties between C.I.A.Qaddafi's Spy Unit, NYT

TRIPOLI : According to documents found at the abandoned office of Libya’s former spymaster with new details of the close relations between American CIA and Libyan intelligence service, most notably suggesting that the Americans sent terrorism suspects at least eight times for questioning in Libya despite that country’s reputation for torture, The New York Times Reported. 

The Western intelligence services began cooperating with Libya after it abandoned its program to build unconventional weapons in 2004, but the files left behind as Tripoli fell to rebels show that the cooperation was much more extensive than generally known with both the C.I.A. and MI-6 the British Intelligence agency.