TROVE OF AL-QAIDA INFORMATION FOUND.(MAIN)

Byline: WALTER PINCUS Washington Post

A wealth of documents, computers and other materials seized in surprise raids in Pakistan in which senior al-Qaida operative Abu Zubaydah was captured last week could lead to other al-Qaida leaders and disrupt planned future terrorist attacks, Bush administration officials said Tuesday.

Telephone numbers and names found in the raids at more than a dozen private homes are already being sent around the world for investigation, one official said. The residences and compounds served as ``safe houses'' for at least 20 al-Qaida members from outside Pakistan, along with 40 Pakistanis who may or may not have been Taliban or al-Qaida.

Zubaydah was organizing new attacks on American targets when he was captured in Pakistan last week, Bush administration officials said. Sources said it seemed …