Saudi dissident denies bomb role

DUBAI A Saudi dissident held in Canada for an alleged role in a bombing that killed 19 US airmen in Saudi Arabia has told a Muslim…

DUBAI A Saudi dissident held in Canada for an alleged role in a bombing that killed 19 US airmen in Saudi Arabia has told a Muslim human rights group he was opposed to his government and had studied in Iran "but had no links to the Tehran government or the explosion, the group said yesterday.

The Canadian government on Thursday charged that Mr "Hani Abdel Rahim Hussein al Sayegh, one of two Saudi dissidents it is holding, was a driver involved in the truck bomb that killed 19 US servicemen in Saudi Arabia last June.

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