Khalid Sheikh Mohammad, who orchestrated the 9/11 terrorist strikes in theUS, was arrested in the Rawalpindi house of a woman office-bearer of theJamaat-e-Islami, having a relative in a Signals regiment of the Army, who wasarrested. All these incidents indicated a strong penetration of Al Qaeda andpro-Al Qaeda organisations into the lower and middle levels of the armedforces personnel stationed in Rawalpindi. Rashid Rauf, a Mirpuri resident of theUK, who was a prime suspect in the case involving an Al Qaeda attempt to blow up10-US bound planes in the UK last year, escaped last week while being taken froma court in Rawalpindi to his jail. Complicity of security personnel in hisescape was suspected.