Posted on 11/08/2003 8:57:08 AM PST by Pan_Yans Wife
Iran refuses US al-Qaeda access BBC 8.13.2003
Iran has no intention of allowing United States officials to interrogate the al-Qaeda suspects it has arrested, the country's president has said.
US Deputy Secretary of State Richard Armitage said on Tuesday that Washington wanted to interrogate senior al-Qaeda members being held in Iran.
But Tehran has refused to identify which al-Qaeda members it has caught and has already ruled out handing them over to the US.
Saad Bin Laden, son of the Saudi-born al-Qaeda leader Osama Bin Laden, is thought to be one of the men being held by the Iranians.
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