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South Africa not a staging ground for al-Qaeda
South Africa was not a staging platform for al-Qaeda terror attacks, National Police Commissioner Jackie Selebi said on Monday.He was speaking to journalists in Cape Town at the opening of a three-day Interpol African workshop on the prevention of bio-terrorism. He said South Africa had "received" people associated with al-Qaeda and might very well have a few people who sympathised with the organisation. However the police ably and capably dealt with them. "It isn't a big problem. It is a problem that we must be alive to at all times," he said. "So we are no staging platform or a conduit... for attacks." Posted by: Dan Darling 2005-11-21 |
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