This is where the most recent terror alerts came from. ] The figure, Muhammad Naeem Noor Khan, was described by a ] Pakistani intelligence official as a 25-year-old computer ] engineer, arrested July 13, who had used and helped to ] operate a secret Qaeda communications system where ] information was transferred via coded messages. Al Queda has a new job opening for a sysadmin with a bad attitude. You must also be able to use Photoshop and make banners. ] The Pakistani official said Mr. Khan told investigators that ] he had received 25 days of training at a militant camp in ] Afghanistan in June 1998. By the time Mr. Khan had risen ] to his current position, the official said, Qaeda figures had ] arranged his marriage and were paying him $170 a month ] for rent for his house in Lahore and $90 for expenses. ] Mr. Khan was in contact with the brother of the Indonesian ] Qaeda leader Hambali, who was studying in a religious ] school in Karachi, and who was deported in December ] 2003. Mr. Khan has told interrogators that his Qaeda ] handler was a Pakistani he knew as Adil or Imran, who ] assigned him tasks related to computer work, Web design ] and managing the handler's messages. His correspondents ] included a Saudi-based Yemeni, Egyptian and Palestinian ] nationals and Arabs in unknown locations, and someone ] described as the "in-charge" in the city of Khost in eastern Afghanistan. The New York Times | Intelligence: Captured Qaeda Figure Led Way to Information Behind Warning |