Pakistan Arrests 3 in Bombing Case

Pakistani officials said Tuesday that they had arrested three more suspects in connection with the Aug. 7 bombings of the U.S. embassies in Kenya and Tanzania.

Officials in Peshawar said they arrested two Arab nationals and an Afghan on Saturday as they tried to cross into Afghanistan. Officials said one man was a Saudi national, another a Sudanese and the third an Afghan.

The men were picked up in the border town of Torkhan as they tried to cross into Afghanistan without proper travel documents, said the officials, who spoke on condition of anonymity. After being detained by local authorities, they were turned over to federal police.

The two Arab nationals were identified as key participants in the embassy bombings by Mohammed Sadik Howaida, who was arrested the day of the bombing in Karachi, Pakistan, after arriving on a plane from Kenya.

Howaida gave a series of detailed confessions while in the custody of Pakistani authorities but has denied any responsibility for the bombings since he was turned over to U.S. and Kenyan officials.