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South Korea denies report of Qaeda infiltration
South Koreaâs police chief denied on Wednesday a press report that a suspected member of Osama bin Ladenâs Al Qaeda network had secretly infiltrated the country this year.
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âI think the report is groundless,â Choi Key-Moon, head of the National Police Agency, told the National Assembly. Seoulâs JoongAng daily said on Wednesday the suspected Al Qaeda member had entered South Korea through a Southeast Asian country. He was later arrested in another country and is in US custody, according to the newspaper which quoted an unidentified South Korean intelligence source. A spokesman for the National Intelligence Service, South Koreaâs spy agency, denied that the agency was the source of the report.
Posted by: Fred Pruitt 2003-11-20 |
