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By Moulana Ebrahim Bham
(source:Independent Newspapers)
The "terror plot" made front-page news. Iraqi authorities had arrested a Saudi citizen, Abdullah Azam Saleh al-Qahtani, for planned attacks against the Danish and Dutch teams at the World Cup.
Last week, when the US announced the arrest of Qahtani – who was by then wearing an orange prisoner jumpsuit – a military spokesman referred all questions to the Iraqi government. Soon, al-Qaeda and the description of a "militant" dominated the headlines. Qahtani’s issue was apparently still with the publication of controversial cartoons of Prophet Muhammad which appeared in the Dutch and Danish media in 2006.
When at least two bombs go off every day in Iraq, it seems amazing that security agencies failing to contain the insurgency in the beleaguered country were able to stump "a terror plot" targeting South Africa – thousands of kilometres away. But the reports were carried widely.