Afghan police arrest men with Al-Qaeda Memo

The Pakistani Times is reporting the capture of letters from Zawahiri and Mullah Omar. It will be interesting to see in the weeks ahead what is written in these letters and what intelligence they have provided to American forces. Below is the contents of the article.

Afghan police says that it arrested Thursday two suspected Taliban insurgents carrying letters from the movement's fugitive leader and Al-Qaeda second-in-command Ayman al-Zawahiri. The Afghan nationals were arrested separately in eastern Nangarhar province. "One of them was carrying letters from (the Taliban's) Mullah Omar and Ayman al-Zawahiri," a report said. The man had served as a district chief in Nangarhar during the 1996-2001 Taliban regime, the report said. "The second man was arrested with some 500 'night' letters which asked people not to cooperate with the 'illegitimate government' and to obey orders of Mullah Omar and Ayman al-Zawahiri."