30/11/2001 00:00
No charges yet made
Under critical pressure from the Senate Judiciary Committee, from the media and from human rights groups, US Attorney General John Ashcroft yesterday provided limited information about some of the more than one thousand people, most from Middle Eastern countries, who have been arrested and detained in the course of investigations into the September 11 attacks. The nationalities, but not the names, of 548 people were given and details of the charges against them. Most of the charges are minor, concerned with making false statements when applying for passports or with credit card fraud. No one has yet been charged with terrorism or involvement in the September 11 attacks. In Britain, according to a detailed report in The Guardian, only one person has been arrested in connection with September 11 the Algerian pilot Lotfi Raissi. Despite being described by the FBI as a key figure, the evidence against him has proved to be tenuous.
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