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2004-05-27 Africa: Subsaharan

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Posted by Steve 2004-05-27 10:01:47 AM|| || Front Page|| [2 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Additional: Police Commissioner Jackie Selebi told Parliament South Africa had arrested and deported several people linked to the al-Qaida terror network, a newspaper reported Thursday.
The Star, a Johannesburg daily, said Selebi told the National Assembly's safety and security committe on Wednesday that the arrest days before the April 14 general elections here also prompted arrests of other al-Qaida suspects in Jordan, Syria and Britain. "We arrested some people who had evil intentions against this country - we did not tell anybody - five days before the election. We got these people to leave," the newspaper quoted Selebie as telling the committee. "In part of this operation, in London, the British police found boxes and boxes of South African passports in the home of one of these people," Selebi said.
The commissioner did not give any specifics on what action the al-Qaida suspects planned in South Africa nor did he explain why the government did not disclose the arrests until now. Selebi told the committee he was disclosing the arrests as an example of the battle faced by government in stamping out corruption in the Department of Home Affairs, which issues passports.

So it was just a catch and release program. Damm.

Posted by Steve 2004-05-27 10:55:38 AM|| 2004-05-27 10:55:38 AM|| Front Page Top

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