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S. Africa foiled Al Qaida-linked plot to disrupt recent elections

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Original Post Date: 2004-05-28 Time: 14:43:51  Posted By: Jan

[This is a strange one and I’m not sure what to make of it. Here in SA, tonight on TV news they showed one of the Jordanians who was arrested. He said the SA Govt wanted to offer him money to leave SA! But he had no intentions of leaving and was going to take the Government to court over the raid on his house.

There are lots of Muslims in South Africa, and we have strong ties with the PLO and other terrorist/anti-USA movements. So one does not know if they perhaps staged something (by arresting innocents) – while leaving the real terrorists to get away… We’ll have to watch these sorts of things in the future. Jan]

Johannesburg: South Africa foiled an Al Qaida-linked plot to disrupt last month’s general elections and passed along information that resulted in arrests in Jordan, Syria and Britain, Police Commissioner Jackie Selebi said.

“We arrested some people who had evil intentions against this country – we did not tell anybody – five days before the election,” Selebi said in comments to a parliamentary committee broadcast on national radio yesterday.

“The result is that you saw in Jordan, in and around those days, a number of people arrested who were called Al Qaida. A number of people were (also) arrested in Syria as a result of our operation,” Selebi said.

Selebi, speaking to the National Assembly’s safety and security committee, said the police operation had extended to Britain.

“In part of this operation, in London, the British police found boxes and boxes of South African passports in the home of one of these people, or an associate of these people, which says to me there must be a link that people are able to acquire these documents,” Selebi said.

There was no immediate word on what had been done with the suspects arrested in South Africa, although Selebi said “we got these people to leave” – possibly indicating that they had been deported or extradited.

South Africa’s Safety and Security Minister Charles Nqakula said that officials believed no Al Qaida cells were operating in the country, although he acknowledged that it was possible there were undercover operatives at large.

Source: Gulf News

URL: http://www.gulf-news.com/Articles/World2.asp?…/p>