Pakistan has arrested a top al Qaeda suspect wanted by the United States, Al Arabiya satellite news channel quoted Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf as saying.

"The Pakistani president said the arrested person is Tanzanian who is married to an Uzbek woman, and who is wanted by the United States," the station said.

Musharraf told Al Arabiya the suspect was arrested on Sunday, but declined to name him, the station said.

Al Arabiya said the suspect may be Ahmed Khalfan Ghailani, a Tanzanian who is on the FBI's most wanted "terrorists" list for his alleged role in the 1998 bombings by al Qaeda of the U.S. embassies in Kenya and Tanzania.

I don't dispute that this is great news. It's a good thing to have him in custody, but why capture him on Sunday and then release the news on Thursday? Unless, it could be part of the July Surprise Chimpy had planned to distract from the attention on the DNC.

I think they were hoping for Bin Laden, and that would have been huge. But, as great as this news is, it's probably not huge enough to distract from coverage of Kerry's acceptance speech tonight, and its subsequent reporting tomorrow, however little of it there might be.

You know Al Jazeera is airing three hours a night of the conventions? Our networks are only airing one a night. Tuesday night had no major coverage at all -- only PBS and cable.