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NAME: PAK RAUF 20071218Ix TAPE: EF07/1505 IN_TIME: 11:20:58:11 DURATION: 00:02:25:04 SOURCES: AP TELEVISION DATELINE: Rawalpindi/Islamabad, 18 Dec 2007 RESTRICTIONS: SHOTLIST: Rawalpindi 1 Wide of traffic leading towards Adiala jail 2 Local residents walking on side of road 3 Wide of traffic on street 4 Various of mosque in area from where Rauf is alleged to have escaped ++CLIENTS PLEASE NOTE: THIS IS NOT THE MOSQUE FROM WHICH RAUF ALLEGEDLY ESCAPED FROM++ 5 Policeman directing traffic Islamabad 6 Wide of Interior Ministry meeting 7 Mid shot of Interior Minister Hamid Nawaz talking to Interior Secretary Kamal Shah 8 Officials seated 9 SOUNDBITE: (English) Hamid Nawaz, Interior Minister in Pakistan's caretaker cabinet: Yes, this is a very unfortunate incident It should not have happened So there is a serious security lapse somewhere Rawalpindi 10 Wide of street 12 Wide exterior of McDonald's fast food restaurant, where it is alleged that Rauf dined with police before making his escape from a mosque 13 McDonald's logo 14 Mid of customers inside restaurant shot through the window 15 Police patrolling nearby Islamabad 16 SOUNDBITE: (English) Hamid Nawaz, Interior Minister in Pakistan's caretaker cabinet: We have one or two very good leads which we are working on and people who are closely involved in his escape have also been apprehended We are working on those very leads and we are very sure that this incident which unfortunately has occurred would be remedied in the shortest possible time 18 Mid of Nawaz seated at his desk Rawalpindi ++NIGHT SHOTS++ 19 Various of police checking vehicles at a checkpoint on main road leading to Islamabad STORYLINE: Pakistani officials expressed optimism on Tuesday that they will recapture a British suspect in an alleged plot to blow up trans-Atlantic jetliners, saying they have arrested five people, including two police officers, on suspicion they helped him escape Rashid Rauf was arrested in Pakistan in August 2006 before the plot was foiled Britain has sought his extradition, both as a suspect in the 2002 killing of his uncle there, and to question him as a key person in the airplane plot He has denied involvement in both cases He was presented before a judge in the capital, Islamabad, on Saturday in connection with the extradition proceedings, but on his way back to jail, he tricked police into stopping to let him pray at a mosque, then slipped out the back door One of Pakistan's leading newspapers, The News, also reported on Tuesday that Rauf allegedly dined with police officers at a local McDonald's in Rawalpindi Interior Minister Hamid Nawaz called Rauf's escape unfortunate and a serious security lapse We have one or two very good leads which we are working on, and the people who were closely involved in his escape have also been apprehended, he told AP Television He said Rauf's possible escape routes have been blocked but he had a eight or nine hour head start on police Nawaz said the five people who were arrested include two police officers and one of Rauf's uncles He said he did not know if al-Qaida was behind the escape, pending completion of an investigation A judge in Rawalpindi on Tuesday granted a police request for permission to question the two detained officers for six days, said a local police official The escape is an embarrassment for the government of President Pervez Musharraf, who made Pakistan a key ally of the United States in its war on terror following the September 11, 2001, attacks in America