Thursday, September 19, 2002

U.S. Holds Reporter, Arab Station Says
A reporter for the Arab satellite station Al Jazeera is being held at the Guantánamo Bay Naval Base in Cuba, suspected of having links with the terror network of Al Qaeda, according to a statement issued by the station.

Al Jazeera identified the reporter as Sami al-Hajj, a Sudanese, who it said was arrested in southern Afghanistan on Dec. 15.

Station officials said that American authorities suspected Mr. Hajj was on the list of wanted members of Al Qaeda, but that documents from Sudan's Foreign Ministry had proved that his passport was lost two years ago and "could therefore have been misused by unknown elements."
http://www.nytimes.com/2002/09/19/international/middleeast/19REPO.html

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