The Pakistani army says it's arrested a senior al-Qaeda leader, who was mainly responsible for planning and conducting international operations. A Pakistani general says the operation was conducted with assistance from the CIA.

Al Mauritani was nabbed, along with two other senior al-Qaeda operatives, in the suburbs of the southwestern city, of Quetta. He'd been tasked personally by Osama bin Laden to focus on targets of economical importance in the US, Europe and Australia. Police say Al Mauritani was planning to target US economic interests including gas and oil pipelines and power generating dams.