'Al-Qaeda man' arrested in Somalia
2003-03-19 10:58
Mogadishu - Six unidentified armed Americans have apprehended a presumed Yemeni national, suspected of having links to al-Qaeda, from a hospital in Somalia's capital and flew him out of the country, witnesses said on Wednesday.
On Tuesday the six men, accompanied by members of a Somali militia group, took the man from Kaysaney hospital. Staff named him only as Issa and said he was carrying a South African passport.
"The Americans with a Somali translator came with details of the man including his photograph and fingerprints," a nurse at Kaysaney hospital said.
According to several sources in Mogadishu, the detained man is thought to have links to Osama bin Laden's al-Qaeda network. - Sapa-AFP
- SAPA