Did Al Jazeera Set Up Ramzi bin Alshibh?
Shahid Iqbal in Karachi In the first week of September, an Arab journalist travelled from London to Karachi to meet top Al-Qaeda operatives. A few days later, on the first anniversary of the September 11 terrorist strikes in the US, security and intelligence agencies raided an apartment complex in a posh area of Karachi. After a three-hour gun battle, five Al Qaeda activists were captured and two killed. Seven members of law-enforcement agencies also received injuries. Among those arrested was Ramzi bin Alshibh, who was on the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s most wanted list. Yosri Fouda, who works for the London bureau of Al Jazeera TV, claimed that Al Qaeda had chosen him to deliver a message to the world on the first anniversary of 9/11 attacks and brought him to Karachi from London. Al Jazeera has aired many exclusive interviews with Al Qaeda leaders, including Osama bin Laden. The FBI and the Central Intelligence Agency, however, claimed that the raid followed the interception o
