| Sanaa and Washington have agreed on the arrest of at least two people in Yemen suspected of belonging to al-Qaeda, Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh was quoted as saying. "There are suspicions around some people whose names have come up, and they are two or three people currently being followed by security services," Saleh said in an interview. "They will be arrested." Saleh however denied that the suspects had links with the suicide bomb attack on the USS Cole warship in Yemen in October 2000 which left 17 US sailors dead. Saleh had told a Kuwaiti newspaper last week that some 25 people had been arrested in connection with the USS Cole attack. Saleh said in the Asharq al-Awsat interview that Yemen had delayed the suspects' trials, so as not to hinder the US investigation into the attack, whose primary suspect is Saudi-born Osama. |