CAMPAIGN AGAINST TERRORISM: Captured Senior Officials Interrogated by US as Mullah Omar Hunt Continues

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AMERICAN OFFICIALS have begun interrogating the two highest- ranking Taliban and al-Qa'ida officials in their custody while the hunt for Mullah Mohammed Omar continues without much success.

Mullah Abdul Salam Zaeef, the high-profile former Taliban ambassador to Pakistan, and Ibn Al-Shayak al-Libi, who ran Osama bin Laden's training camps, were handed over to the Americans by, respectively, the Pakistani and Afghan governments.

Mr al-Libi is being held in Kandahar, where the prisoners include three British Muslims captured fighting among Taliban ranks. Mullah Zaeef is on board an American warship in the Arabian Sea. They are expected to be moved to the US base at …