Breaking News: Top Al Qaeda Operative Taken into US custody

WASHINGTON (AFP) - The United States has taken into custody a top al-Qaeda operative who plotted the assassination of Pakistan's President Pervez Musharraf and other officials, a Pentagon spokesman said Friday

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UPDATE: Abd al-Hadi al-Iraqi was also accused of commanding al Qaeda's paramilitary operations in Afghanistan and launching attacks on U.S. and coalition forces from Pakistan, the Defense Department said.

The Iraqi was detained trying to get back into Iraq to "manage al Qaeda's affairs" there, according to Pentagon spokesman Bryan Whitman.