AMMAN: Lebanese troops arrested four members of a Jordanian family after the surname bin Laden was spotted on one of their passports, a Jordanian newspaper reported yesterday.
The passport belonged to Omar Samhouri, 22, an employee of the Saudi bin Laden Group, the construction firm owned and operated by the family of Al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden, the daily Al-Arab al-Yawm said.
The family were stopped at a Lebanese army checkpoint last week as they were returning by car from visiting relatives in Tripoli.
“Personnel of the seventh brigade panicked when they read the word bin Laden printed on Samhouri’s passport and all explanations by the family members did not succeed in convincing them that the occupants of the car were not planning a terrorist operation,” the paper quoted the father, Jehad Samhouri as saying.
“We were taken to an intelligence post where we were interrogated for four hours and treated as criminals before the army commanders realised that we were nothing more than a Jordanian family who came to Lebanon to attend a wedding party, and freed us,” Samhouri told the newspaper. – DPA
Islamists held
CAIRO: Egyptian police have detained three Muslim Brotherhood candidates to the upper house of parliament as they campaigned in the Nile Delta province of Dakahlia, Brotherhood and security sources said yesterday. – Reuters |
