It has been reported that a senior al-Qaeda member has been arrested and is now in US custody.
US officials have declined to name the man, but said he was not among the top three most wanted al Qaeda leaders: Osama bin Laden; his top lieutenant, Ayman al-Zawahiri; or the group's operational leader, Khailid Shaikh Mohammed.
Earlier this month Osama bin Laden's top operative in Yemen was killed in a US missile strike launched from an unmanned Predator aircraft.
In September US and Pakistani authorities captured Ramzi Binalshibh, another alleged planner of the strikes on the World Trade Centre and Pentagon.
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