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Info-Prod Research (Middle East), October, 2002

A Saudi man charged in Sudan with trying to hijack a plane en route to Jeddah is mentally sound, Sudanese Interior Minister Major General Abdel Rahim Mohamed Hussein was quoted as saying Thursday."The hijacker is of a sound mind and enjoys full mental faculties," Hussein was quoted as saying by the independent Al Sahafa daily, contradicting a police statement Wednesday that Adel Nasser Ahmed Faraj appeared to be mentally "unstable", AFP reported.

The paper said that Faraj had undergone a medical examination, which showed that he had "full mental faculties." Faraj was overpowered by security personnel aboard a Saudi Arabian Airlines plane, which he tried to hijack after takeoff from Khartoum on Tuesday, the airline and Sudanese police said."It turned out from the...

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