South Africans captured with al-Qaida terrorist

TWO South African men, captured along with a senior al-Qaida terrorist, were plotting attacks on tourist sites in their home country, and a senior police official said yesterday.

The official also claimed that the men vowed an unceasing battle against America and President George W Bush when authorities caught them after a 12-hour gunbattle,

The South Africans were identified as Feroz Ibrahim, believed to be in his 30s, and Zubair Ismail, a man in his 20s, by Raja Munawar Hussain, the chief of police in Gujrat, the eastern Pakistani city where they were arrested on July 25.