Zakaria Osuli, a university lecturer, researcher and author, was arrested by the Taliban from Police District 11 of Kabul on January 31, reports Hasht-e Subh. No specifics were immediately available on the situation and whereabouts of Osuli.He recently published a book on Ahmad Shah Massoud, a prominent anti-Taliban commander of the Northern Alliance who was assassinated by two al-Qaeda operatives in north Afghanistan on September 9, 2001.