Abu Faraj al-Libbi was arrested May 2, 2005, in Mardan, Pakistan. At that time he was believed to be Al Qaeda's No. 3 leader. His circumstances of capture may be one of the most bizarre, as it involved cross-dressing Pakistani officers. Wearing the burqa (a body-length robe worn by women in conservative Islamic families), Pakistani intelligence agents ambushed Mr. Libbi while he was riding on the back of a motorbike, according to the BBC. He ran into a house and later surrendered.
He is now a detainee at Guantánamo Bay. It was originally hoped that his arrest, like that of many others, would lead officials to Osama bin Laden. Pakistani Information Minister Sheikh Rashid Ahmed said afterward that his security agents has gathered "a lot of tips" from the arrest and were "on the right track" to capturing the Al Qaeda leader.
