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South Korea denies report of al-Qaeda infiltration
Seoul, Nov 19: South Korea`s police chief today denied a press report that a suspected member of Osama Bin Laden`s al-Qaeda network had secretly infiltrated the country this year.
Seoul, Nov 19: South Korea's police chief today
denied a press report that a suspected member of Osama Bin
Laden's al-Qaeda network had secretly infiltrated the country
this year.
"I think the report is groundless," Choi Key-Moon,
head of the National Police Agency, told the National
Assembly.
Seoul's Joongang daily said 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 Korea's spy agency, denied that the agency was the source of the report.
"We have never told journalists or any one else that we have received any such intelligence reports," he said.
Joongang said South Korea had received a tip from US intelligence authorities about the suspect. There are 37,000 US troops stationed in South Korea. Bureau Report
Seoul's Joongang daily said 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 Korea's spy agency, denied that the agency was the source of the report.
"We have never told journalists or any one else that we have received any such intelligence reports," he said.
Joongang said South Korea had received a tip from US intelligence authorities about the suspect. There are 37,000 US troops stationed in South Korea. Bureau Report