YEMEN - Oct 30 - Sanaa Arrests Al Qaida-Linked Gun-Runners.Yemeni security forces have arrested eight foreigners Foreigners alienage the condition of being an alien. androlepsy Law. the seizure of foreign subjects to enforce a claim for justice or other right against their nation. gypsyologist, gipsyologist Rare. with suspected links to Al Qaida who were smuggling smuggling, illegal transport across state or national boundaries of goods or persons liable to customs or to prohibition. Smuggling has been carried on in nearly all nations and has occasionally been adopted as an instrument of national policy, as by Great Britain weapons from Yemen to Somalia, a senior interior ministry official said yesterday. The state September 26 website (www.26sep.net) said the group comprised 3 Australians, one Dane, one Briton, one German, one Somali and one European whose nationality was not disclosed. Earlier the official news agency Saba, quoting an interior ministry official, said four of the suspects were Australian. "The eight foreigners were arrested because they smuggled smug·gle v. smug·gled, smug·gling, smug·gles v.tr. 1. To import or export without paying lawful customs charges or duties. 2. To bring in or take out illicitly or by stealth. weapons to Somalia from Yemen", Saba reported. "Preliminary investigations indicate that they are members of Al Qaida". Government sources in the Yemeni capital told Reuters that all eight had converted to Islam earlier this year and received religious instruction in Yemen. The Australian Department of Foreign Affairs foreign affairs pl.n. Affairs concerning international relations and national interests in foreign countries. and Trade said it had been informed by Yemen that three Australians were detained de·tain tr.v. de·tained, de·tain·ing, de·tains 1. To keep from proceeding; delay or retard. 2. To keep in custody or temporary confinement: . "They have confirmed that they arrested three Australians, but at this stage have not provided any further information", spokes-man Scott Bolitho said. |
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