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| Pakistani man arrested at US embassy in Chile |
| 2010-05-12 |
| [Dawn] A Pakistani man will be charged with violating gun control laws in Chile Tuesday after traces of explosives were detected on his body and belongings during a visit to the US embassy, police said. The suspicious substance was detected when the man identified as Mohamed Said Uf Rejaman, 28, went through a security checkpoint on Monday, prompting embassy staff to notify police. He was arrested on site. Police experts found traces of a TNT explosive derivative on the suspect's hands, cell phone, bag and documentation. The man said he did not know where it had come from and he was only at the embassy to renew his visa. He arrived in Chile about three months ago on a visa and had been working at a hotel in the capital. Police have raided his home in downtown Santiago. The arrest came just a week after Pakistani-born naturalised US citizen Faisal Shahzad was pulled off a plane to Dubai and arrested for allegedly leaving a sport utility vehicle rigged to explode in New York's crowded Times Square. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #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 He would not say why the visa had been revoked.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 |
| #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 |