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India Arrests Fourth Suspect In Bid To Bomb U.S. Embassy
NEW DELHI, June 22 (News Agencies) - Indian police have arrested a fourth suspect in a plot allegedly hatched by Saudi billionaire Osama bin Laden to blow up the U.S. embassy in New Delhi, a police officer said Friday.
The accused, Mohammed Arshad, was arrested Thursday in Patna, capital of the eastern Indian state of Bihar, and was being brought to Delhi for questioning, the official added.
The police officer said the man had confessed to being hired to drive a bomb-laden vehicle into the U.S. embassy.
Three people have already been held in connection with the alleged plot.
An individual named Abbas, an Indian citizen, was seized in Udaipur on Saturday in the desert state of Rajasthan.
The other two suspects, Abdel Raouf Hawash, from Sudan, and Indian Shamin Sarvar, were arrested in New Delhi last Friday allegedly with six kilograms (13.2 pounds) of plastic explosive in their possession.
During interrogation, police said Hawash revealed a Yemeni national, identified as Abdul Rehman al Safani, had recruited him into the service of Bin Laden.
Hawash also said he had received 500,000 rupees ($10,638) as initial payment to carry out the attack, they said.
Last Saturday, an Indian court ordered Hawash and Sarvar be kept in jail until June 26th, to assist police investigations.
Exiled Saudi dissident Bin Laden is on the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation's 10-most-wanted list for alleged bombing of two U.S. embassies in Africa in 1998, in which more than 220 people were killed.
He is believed to be in hiding in Afghanistan since 1996.
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