KABUL (AFP): Reports from the volatile Pakistan-Afghanistan border indicate that the world's most wanted man has been arrested by a platoon of US Special Forces.

Sgt Chuck Petersen of Boise, Idaho was quoted as saying: 'I joined the army to catch this (expletive deleted). Now we've got him hog-tied and we're gonna make sure he gets what's coming to him.'

The soldiers had been on a routine patrol when they heard tinny noises coming from a remote cave. Without waiting for back-up they surrounded it and burst in. 
 
They were not a minute too soon. Their prey was on the verge of releasing another horror on the US, the prime target of his previous atrocities.

'Tupac Shakur's hand was on the computer mouse, just a second away from sending another of his 'posthumous' videos to MTV', reported a Special Forces spokesman.