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October 14, 2003
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Saudi Arabia Hands Over Terror Suspects
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

RIYADH, Saudi Arabia (AP) -- Saudi Arabia has handed over ``more than
three'' American terror suspects to the United States, the interior
minister said in remarks published Tuesday.

In Washington, a Saudi official noted that three Americans were
arrested this past summer and turned over to U.S. authorities. The
three -- Seifullah Chapman, Khwaja Mahmood Hasan, and Sabri Benkhala
-- were charged with conspiring to join a Muslim extremist terror
group blamed for thousands of deaths in the disputed Kashmir territory
of India and Pakistan.

It was not immediately clear whether these three men were the terror
suspects the interior minister was referring to in his remarks. .....