THREE AL-QAEDA SUSPECTS ARRESTED IN TURKEY HAVE BEEN FORMALLY REMANDED...

World | February 20, 2002, Wednesday // 00:00

Three al-Qaeda suspects arrested in Turkey have been formally remanded in custody for using fake documents to enter the country, the semi-official Anatolia news agency has reported. They were allegedly heading for Israel on a suicide bomb mission. The three, two Palestinians and a Jordan, are being detained at Istanbul's highest security prison following their arrest last week in the eastern city of Van. The police allege that that they had received military training in Afghanistan, and had fought for the Taleban there. They say that all three were carrying forged passports and ID cards, as well as Arabic documents said to contain bomb-making instructions.

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