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Iran arrests five al-Qaeda members (UPDATE)

Politics Materials 6 September 2011 17:14 (UTC +04:00)

Azerbaijan , Baku, Sept. 6/Trend/

Iran arrested five al-Qaeda members in Kerman province, reported IRNA quoting Kerman province police commander, Gen. Hossein Chenarian as saying.

Al-Qaeda members were jailed attempting to import large amounts of weapons, ammunition and explosives to the country.

"Two of them are non-Iranian individuals," he said. The case was submitted to the Ministry of Information to conduct more investigations," he said.

Chenarian stressed that this group was naturalized two weeks ago.

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