High Level al Qaida Member, Mohammad Rahim, Captured

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Pentagon officials announced that they have captured Mohammad Rahim, a high level al Qaida operative who had helped Osama bin Laden escape from Afghanistan. Seattlepi.com

WASHINGTON -- The Pentagon says authorities have captured a high-level al-Qaida figure who helped Osama bin Laden escape from Afghanistan in 2001.

Officials declined to say when or where Mohammad Rahim was captured - announcing only that he was handed over by the CIA to the Pentagon earlier this week and is being held at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.

Defense Department spokesman Bryan Whitman says Rahim is a close associate of bin Laden and has ties to al-Qaida organizations throughout the Middle East.