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Seizures, arrests spark Al-Qaida fears

London, January 12
New fears about the spread of the Al-Qaida across Europe have arisen after police cracked down on suspects planning to spread poison in London and the arrest of two Al-Qaida members in Germany.

US intelligence led to the arrest of two Yemenis in Germany on Saturday.

One of them, Mohammed Ali Hassan El Mohad, the Imam of the main mosque in the Yemeni capital Sana’a, was reportedly the finance manager for Osama bin Laden, prime suspect in the terror attacks in the USA in September, 2001.

Mohad and his companion Said Mohammed Moshen were arrested from a hotel at the Frankfurt international airport.

Reports from Germany said the arrests were significant.

Earlier in the week, the police in London found signs of a toxin ricin in a room in north London occupied by Algerian asylum seekers.

The poison was reportedly produced on directions from a cell at a terrorist camp in Pankisi Gorge, Georgia, close to the border with Chechnya. IANS