US media reports said information gleaned from Ahmed Khalfan Ghailani and a computer expert named by the New York Times as Muhammad Naeem Noor Khan, also known as Abu Talha, prompted a high level alert against a possible attack by al-Qaeda on financial institutions in United States.
The Minister said a computer expert had been arrested but refused to name him or draw any link between what his interrogators had discovered and the alert in the United States.
He also said the capture of Tanzanian-born Ghailani had given intelligence officers more material to work on. "We have got some very important information out of Ghailani," Rashid said.