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2010-05-12 Caribbean-Latin America

Pakistani man arrested at US embassy in Chile

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Posted by Fred 2010-05-12 00:00|| || Front Page|| [2 views ] Top

#1 he was only at the embassy to renew his visa.

Because it's the US embassy that hands out Chilean visa to Pakistanis. Book him Danno and find his accomplices.

Posted by ed 2010-05-12 01:06|| 2010-05-12 01:06|| Front Page Top

#2 Chilean authorities have extended the detention of a Pakistani man found with traces of explosives as he visited the US embassy to discuss a revoked visa.

"I am innocent and I do not know why this is happening. I think it is the fault of the United States, where I wanted to go for a month. That's why I went to the embassy," the man, who police identified as Mauhannas Saif Ur Rehnab Khan, told reporters.

But a senior State Department official said in Washington Tuesday that the embassy had called Rehnab in after revoking his US visa. He would not say why the visa had been revoked.

State Department spokesman Philip Crowley said Rehnab had been called in "to clarify the information that we have on this individual. "And as he came into the embassy, our explosive detectors went off."

Posted by ed 2010-05-12 02:04|| 2010-05-12 02:04|| Front Page Top

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