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Chile's Anti- Terrorist Laws Holds Pakistani Man Who Set Off U.s Embassy Bomb Detectors.
The U.S. Ambassador Paul Simon said that embassy security officers called carabineros, Chile’s uniformed police service, after U.S. embassy security procedures detected some traces during an interview with Khan. According to a senior State Department official in Washington, D.C U.S. officials had received information about Khan that led to a decision to revoke his visa and he was asked to visit the embassy in Santiago so diplomats could inform him of the revocation, as required by U.S. Law. U.S. Ambassador Simon stated there was no indication that the embassy in Santiago was a target of an attack. According to local Chilean Radio station Radio Cooperativa, Khan was taken to a hospital for a medical check up before taken to jail and was able to briefly speak to reporters from a window of the police vehicle. "No, I am not a terrorist. I do not have nothing to do with bombs, I am a working man," he said in heavily accented English."This represents an attempt by them to cover up their shame for what they have done in Iraq and Pakistan," he added, A Chilean judge ordered him held in a high-security prison under anti-terrorism laws. This will see Khan in custody for five days under Chile’s anti- U.S. Embassy in Chile The U.S. Embassy building in Santiago, Chile terrorism law. This allows officers time for further investigation without having to charge the Pakistani. Chile's interior minister, Rodrigo Hinzpeter, promised a thorough investigation. "We will be relentless in the fight against any form of crime, especially terrorism," he told reporters while touring southern Chile. Officers in HAZ-MAT suits searched Khan's apartment in a student residence in the downtown area of Santiago. According to the Chilean newspaper La Segunda, the substance detected was Tetryl, a compound used to increase the explosive power of TNT. The major national Chilean paper, El Mercurio reports that that the substance was detected on a bag, documents and cellular telephone carried by Khan. El Mercurio also reported that Khan was in Chile legally to study tourism and had a job at a hotel. A 28-year-old Pakistani man was arrested after he entered the US embassy in the Chilean capital with traces of an explosive substance on his body, media reports said Tuesday. The man will be charged with violating gun control law in Chile, Pakistan’s Dawn News said on its website citing police. The substance was detected when the man identified as Mohamed Said Uf Rejaman, went through a security check point Monday, prompting the embassy staff to notify the police. Police said they found traces of a TNT explosive derivative on the suspect’s hands, cell phone and bag. The man said he did not know where it had come from and was at the embassy to renew his visa. He arrived in Chile about three months ago on a visa and had been working at a hotel in the capital. Police have raided his home in downtown Santiago. The arrest came just a week after Pakistani-born naturalised US citizen Faisal Shahzad was detained over his involvement in New York’s Times Square bombing plot. Article Directory: http://www.articledashboard.com |
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