| Iran's Intelligence Minister Ali Younessi has denied claims by the judiciary that members of Osama bin Laden's Al Qaeda network have been tried and sentenced. "Probably the judiciary in Tehran was speaking about the sentencing of Al Qaeda sympathisers and not their principal members," Younessi was quoted as saying by the state news agency IRNA. On Tuesday, a Tehran justice department official told AFP that "sentences have been pronounced" on Al Qaeda suspects detained on Iranian soil in a case handled by a special judge. But the official refused to say who the accused were, how many of them there were, nor what verdicts were reached or sentences handed out. |