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To: LindyBill who wrote (4401)	8/6/2003 1:18:35 PM
From: Rollcast...	Respond to of 793696

holding... Iran holding al-Qaeda number three, refuses to surrender him: report Sat Aug 2, 3:54 PM ET Add Mideast - AFP to My Yahoo! story.news.yahoo.com WASHINGTON (AFP) - Iran is holding Saif al-Adel, the third-ranking member of al-Qaeda, but has refused to hand him over to the United States, according to a US newspaper. Iran will only surrender al-Qaeda members in its custody in exchange for members of the Iranian opposition group Mujahedeen Khalq, many of whom are in US-supervised camps in Iraq (news - web sites), the New York Times said. A US official approached Tehran through a third party about taking custody of Adel and other al-Qaeda figures but "did not receive a positive response," the Times quoted a US official as saying. Among those held in Iran, according to US and Middle Eastern officials, are al-Qaeda's Kuwaiti-born spokesman Sulaiman Abu Gaith; Osama bin Laden (news - web sites)'s Saudi-born son, Saad; and Abu Masab al-Zarwaqi of Jordan, a close aide to bin Laden. "We are confident that Iran is holding these people," a US official said. Adel is thought to have arranged the triple suicide bombings in Riyadh on May 12 that killed 35, and to have played a part in the 1998 bombings of US embassies in Kenya and Tanzania, which killed more than 200. Tehran admitted in late July that it was holding prominent members of the al-Qaeda network but did not identify them. It said Monday it was "completing the files" on members of the terror network in its custody before deciding on their fate, foreign ministry spokesman Hamid-Reza Asefi said in a press conference.