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October 13th, 2008
Posted: 02:53 PM ET

(CNN) — A U.S. citizen was arrested on unspecified charges Monday in a rugged tribal area of Pakistan that borders Afghanistan and is forbidden to most foreigners, a Pakistani official said.

The American, identified as Jude Kenan, was arrested in Shabqadar, in the Charsadda district of the Mohmand Agency in North Waziristan, said Pakistan Police Station House Officer Qayum Khan. Kenan, a college student from Florida, was leaving the tribal areas through the Yakaghund police checkpoint when he was arrested, Khan said.

Authorities said Kenan was in possession of a U.S. passport as well as a camera, laptop and dagger. Kenan said he was in the region to meet “Habibullah,” the police official said.

A U.S. Embassy spokesman in Islamabad told CNN he had no information on the matter.


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