Pakistan releases al Qaeda suspect

BBC:

A Pakistani computer expert alleged to have had links with al-Qaeda has been released without charge after three years in custody.

Mohammad Naeem Noor Khan, 25, has been reunited with his family in the city of Karachi, officials and his lawyer said.

Mr Khan was accused of acting as a link between al-Qaeda leaders and militants.

His detention led to the arrest of a suspect in the 1998 US embassy bombings in East Africa, and information on terror plots in the UK and US.

Deputy attorney general Naheeda Mehboob Ilahi announced his release in a Supreme Court hearing, but gave no further details.

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Pakistani investigators said Mr Khan had invented secret codes, which enabled al-Qaeda operatives to send encrypted emails and messages via the internet.

Shortly after his arrest, police said a search of his computer files and email records revealed an active global al-Qaeda network, which was planning attacks in Britain, Pakistan and the US.
I think this guy should have been sent to Gitmo. Hopefully they are watching him and his family to see who he associates with. It is actions like this that cause people to doubt Pakistan's commitment to winning this war. For some reason during the three years he was held he was never charged with a crime much less tried. It appears he could have been tried in the US for offering material assistance to a terrorist operation.

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