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NG News: Terrorism: SSS Interrogates 10 Suspects
From Ike Abonyi in Abuja with agency report, 11.13.2007
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The Director-General of the State Security Service (SSS), Mr. Afakriya Gadzama, has said suspected terrorists arrested at the weekend in Kano, Kaduna and Yobe states will be arraigned this week.
Gadzama said in Abuja yesterday that of the 10 suspects arrested, three had been found to have been fully involved in a planned terror attack in the country.
He said the remaining suspects were being screened to ascertain their collective and individual levels of involvement on the alleged planned attack.
“We will arraign them as soon as investigation into the matter is concluded this week,” Gadzama told a Correspondent of News Agency of Nigeria (NAN).
Gadzama said investigations revealed that the suspects, though Nigerians, had links to Al-Qaeda network in an Asian country currently in turmoil.
Security reports had indicated that Nigeria might have been saved the horror of major terrorist attacks following the arrest of the suspected terrorists at the weekend.
The suspects were arrested in Kano, Kaduna and Yobe states with explosive-making devices, including bags of fertiliser and some quantities of firearms.
THISDAY gathered that SSS operatives who had been on the trail of some religious militants in Northern part of the country aborted the intended attacks.
The group, according to the security source, was responsible for the recent attacks on police stations and some neighbourhoods in parts of the country.
Gadzama said the suspects were arrested with some bags of fertilisers and firearms when their hideout was raided.
Gadzama said more intelligence was being collated on other suspects and their hideouts.
Sources at the SSS attributed the success in the operation that led to the arrest of the suspects to the recent changes in the service, especially the re-organisation and strengthening of the Anti-Terrorism Department and the prioritisation of the operational focus of the intelligence body.
It was not clear where and how the militants wanted to attack but a source said some Western interests in the country might have been their target. Operatives are also said to be looking into the possibility of the group having backers from religious groups in the country.