Abdur Rehman (Libyan)
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Abdur Rehman was Libya
n citizen, suspected of being a member of al Qaeda, was killed during a shootout with Pakistan
i security officials.
The Pakistani newspaper Dawn
reported the shootout took place in the Hayatabad
neighborhood of Peshawar
, on the border of Pakistan's Tribal areas. The article stated he was shot during an arrest raid that was part of Operation Evening Star, and that a confederate escaped.
The house was raided based on a tip from the Inter-Services Intelligence agency that a "group of Afghan terrorists".
Dawn described Abdur Rehman as "the son of Muhammad", a "stocky figure in his mid-thirties", who had married a thirteen-year-old Pakistani girl three months earlier.
His wife was injured during the shootout.
According to Dawn a senior official identified the man who escaped as an Egypt
ian national named "Sulieman", wanted by the FBI, who offered a $100,000.
According to Dawn he had just one arm.
Dawn reported three identity documents found in the house identified him as "Qari Mohammad Ayub", "Mohammad Ayub", and "Mujahid Mohammad Ayub".
Abdur Rehman's wife Khadija said the man was a frequent visitor to their house.
She said she knew him only as "Ayub". She acknowledged knowing that her husband and her friends were wanted by the Americans. She said she and her husband had moved to the house when another friend of his had been arrested and sent to Guantanamo a month and a half earlier.
Dawn reported that the security officials who surrounded the house negotiated with Ayub for over three hours, and that Ayub had escaped into the Tribal areas when Adbur Rehman was shot after emerging from the house, hurling several hand grenade
s.
Dawn reported the house was just five metres from the border to the Tribal areas.
Libya
Libya is an African country in the Maghreb region of North Africa bordered by the Mediterranean Sea to the north, Egypt to the east, Sudan to the southeast, Chad and Niger to the south, and Algeria and Tunisia to the west....
n citizen, suspected of being a member of al Qaeda, was killed during a shootout with Pakistan
Pakistan
Pakistan , officially the Islamic Republic of Pakistan is a sovereign state in South Asia. It has a coastline along the Arabian Sea and the Gulf of Oman in the south and is bordered by Afghanistan and Iran in the west, India in the east and China in the far northeast. In the north, Tajikistan...
i security officials.
The Pakistani newspaper Dawn
Dawn (newspaper)
Dawn is Pakistan's oldest and most widely read English-language newspaper. One of the country's two largest English-language dailies, it is the flagship of the Dawn Group of Newspapers, published by Pakistan Herald Publications, which also owns the Herald, a magazine, the evening paper The Star and...
reported the shootout took place in the Hayatabad
Hayatabad
Hayatabad is a posh, modern suburb on the south-western fringe of Peshawar, the capital of the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan. It was named after Hayat Sherpao late Governor of NWFP & notable leader of Pakistan Peoples Party...
neighborhood of Peshawar
Peshawar
Peshawar is the capital of Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa and the administrative center and central economic hub for the Federally Administered Tribal Areas of Pakistan....
, on the border of Pakistan's Tribal areas. The article stated he was shot during an arrest raid that was part of Operation Evening Star, and that a confederate escaped.
The house was raided based on a tip from the Inter-Services Intelligence agency that a "group of Afghan terrorists".
Dawn described Abdur Rehman as "the son of Muhammad", a "stocky figure in his mid-thirties", who had married a thirteen-year-old Pakistani girl three months earlier.
His wife was injured during the shootout.
According to Dawn a senior official identified the man who escaped as an Egypt
Egypt
Egypt , officially the Arab Republic of Egypt, Arabic: , is a country mainly in North Africa, with the Sinai Peninsula forming a land bridge in Southwest Asia. Egypt is thus a transcontinental country, and a major power in Africa, the Mediterranean Basin, the Middle East and the Muslim world...
ian national named "Sulieman", wanted by the FBI, who offered a $100,000.
According to Dawn he had just one arm.
Dawn reported three identity documents found in the house identified him as "Qari Mohammad Ayub", "Mohammad Ayub", and "Mujahid Mohammad Ayub".
Abdur Rehman's wife Khadija said the man was a frequent visitor to their house.
She said she knew him only as "Ayub". She acknowledged knowing that her husband and her friends were wanted by the Americans. She said she and her husband had moved to the house when another friend of his had been arrested and sent to Guantanamo a month and a half earlier.
Dawn reported that the security officials who surrounded the house negotiated with Ayub for over three hours, and that Ayub had escaped into the Tribal areas when Adbur Rehman was shot after emerging from the house, hurling several hand grenade
Hand grenade
A hand grenade is any small bomb that can be thrown by hand. Hand grenades are classified into three categories, explosive grenades, chemical and gas grenades. Explosive grenades are the most commonly used in modern warfare, and are designed to detonate after impact or after a set amount of time...
s.
Dawn reported the house was just five metres from the border to the Tribal areas.