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To: maceng2 who wrote (201753)	11/2/2002 6:33:09 PM
From: GROUND ZERO™	Respond to of 436258

Thanks, I think...<g> GZ

To: maceng2 who wrote (201753)	11/3/2002 6:10:44 AM
From: maceng2	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 436258

Bin Laden son detained in Iran news.ft.com Iranian security forces have detained at least one of Osama bin Laden's sons along with several hundred people suspected of having links to the al-Qaeda organisation. The captures happened on Iranian territory as the group fled Afghanistan, according to an Iranian official. The official, who asked not to be identified, said Mr bin Laden's son was handed over to either the Saudi or Pakistani authorities. He declined to give any details of the son's identity and said he could not confirm reports that one of Mr bin Laden's wives had also been detained in Iran. Iran's government believes the al-Qaeda leader himself is dead, the official added. Mr bin Laden (pictured) is reported to have married four women and fathered some 20 children. Kamal Kharrazi, Iran's foreign minister, said this week that Iran had detained about 250 people linked to al-Qaeda and that, in line with government policy, they had all been returned to their home countries. Iranian officials have declined to identify them. Diplomats believe the number is much higher than 250, however. One European diplomat said some 350 suspects had been sent to Saudi Arabia alone. Early this year, Iran denied accusations by the US that it was harbouring al-Qaeda fugitives and said none had entered Iran. Officials later admitted that some had managed to cross the long and uncontrolled border with Pakistan and Afghanistan, but all those captured had later been deported. These included about 20 Europeans, including wives and children of alleged al-Qaeda members. Western governments continue to suspect, however, that elements of the Iranian regime, possibly within the Revolutionary Guards and beyond the control of he central government, were harbouring al-Qaeda fugitives, for reasons of ideology or money.