Arab arrested

KUWAIT CITY: Border police have arrested an Arab with forged Kuwaiti citizenship papers for suspected terrorist mastermind Osama bin Laden, newspapers said on Saturday. Police grew suspicious of the exit stamps in the man8217;s passport as he tried to cross the western border post of Salmi into Saudi Arabia on July 3, The Arab Times said. Under interrogation, the man, under a travel ban for suspected involvement in 8220;several cases in Kuwait8221;, said bin Laden had made a secret visit to the Emirate in 1996.

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