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UPDATE: Unfortunately this report proved to be incorrect. Correction posted here.

ThreatsWatch reports Gulbuddin Hikmatyar was arrested in Afghanistan today, and happy September 11 to you, too, asshole: 'Five years to the day after the al-Qaeda attacks in America, the man who invited Usama bin Laden to Afghanistan in 1996 has been captured. Afghan and Coalition troops acted on intel that Gulbuddin Hikmatyar was in his compound and the Hizb-i-Islami commander and al-Qaeda ally was arrested in eastern Afghanistan today' ... while Monsters & Critics reports ' a known al-Qaeda facilitator and six other suspected al-Qaeda associates were detained, coalition forces said. The commander of the Hizb-i-Islami militia in Hafezan in the eastern province of Nangarhar, Gulbuddin Hikmatyar, was arrested after credible intelligence led Afghan and coalition forces to his compound, the statement said' ... meanwhile, Debka reports 'Cyprus detains a ship bound for Syria from North Korea - on Interpol and Israeli tip-off about military cargo' ...