Qaeda behind Marriott terror attack: FBI

The US Federal Bureau of Investigation has informed Pakistan that the Al Qaeda-linked Al Kini group was behind a series of terrorist attacks in the country, including last year’s suicide car bombing of the Marriott Hotel.The FBI has asked Pakistan's Federal Investigating Agency to share its findings on these attacks that were gathered through interrogation of arrested suspects to help hunt down the top members of the Al Kini group. In its latest communication to the FIA, the FBI said the terror cells of the Al Kini group were involved in the bombing of the Marriott, the suicide attack in Rawalpindi that killed the army's surgeon general, Lt Gen Mushtaq Baig, and a bomb attack on a police station in Sargodha, the Dawn newspaper reported on Sunday (June 28).