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Iran says it has dismantled Al Qaeda cell
(AFP)
16 July 2005
TEHERAN - Iran dismantled an Al Qaeda cell in the east of the
country in recent days that was preparing to launch attacks,
Intelligence Minister Ali Younessi told the student news agency ISNA
on Saturday.
Al Qaeda had "organised and formed different groups to carry out
terrorist acts primarily in the east of the country," the minister
said.
The cell was discovered last week, the minister said, but he did
not specify whether the group planned to attack Iran or another
country.
The militant network had sought out "theology students and
religious Sunnis," he added.
Younessi said the formation of this network constituted
the "fifth wave" of Al Qaeda actions in the Islamic republic since the
2001 demise of the Taleban regime in neighboring Afghanistan.
Since then, the minister said about a thousand Al Qaeda
operatives have been "identified, arrested, extradited or judged, and
at the present time 200 of them are still in prison."
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