(New York Times) - A senior leader of Al Qaeda, Abd al-Rahim al-Nashiri, its chief of operations in the Persian Gulf, has been captured, American officials said Thursday. A pivotal planner of the 1998 embassy bombings in East Africa and the October 2000 attack on the American destroyer Cole, Nashiri was captured earlier this month at an airport in a foreign country, and had been in the process of planning several terrorist attacks when caught.
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