The Courier-Mail reports:
A suspected member of Osama bin Laden's militant Islamic al-Qaeda network has been arrested at Manila airport on arrival in the Philippines from Saudi Arabia.According to an ABS-CBN News report, the suspect is 34-year-old Nasser Alarifi, a Saudi Arabian citizen, who arrived at Ninoy Aquino International Airport from Riyadh on Philippine Airlines Flight 659. Notably, airport authorities have been on high alert for possible terrorist infiltrators.
The suspect, whose name was on a blacklist of individuals with possible terrorist links, was detained upon disembarking from a commercial flight from Riyadh on March 15.
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