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One of bin Laden's sons arrested
Iran said Sunday that they had arrested and deported one of Osama bin Laden's sons who entered the country illegally months ago.
"He was one of 20 people who were arrested and immediately expelled from Iran around two months ago," government spokesman Abdollah Ramazanzadeh told Reuters. Meanwhile, the Times of London reported that one of bin Laden's wives had been captured.
The news reports contradict a story from The Financial Times that Iranian security forces had detained one of bin Laden's sons among several hundred people suspected of links to the al-Qaida terror network. Both Afghanistan and Pakistan lie on Iran's eastern borders.
�The identity of the son, reportedly one of 20 fathered by bin Laden, was not revealed.
Hussein claims US trying to take over
Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein said, in a rare newspaper interview published Sunday, that the United States aims to take over Iraq as a first step on its way toward destroying all Arab centers of power, "be it in Cairo, Egypt or Baghdad."
Hussein said that Washington is planning to take over Iraq, Iran and Syria, and wants to divide the region's countries into small entities.��The Iraqi leader emphasized that any U.S. invasion of Iraq will not be as easy as the U.S.-led war in Afghanistan.
Hussein said that there was not an Iraqi opposition of note, because the opposition organizations are "tens of thousand of miles away" from the country. He said one bus in Baghdad could hold the entire Iraqi opposition.
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