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FRANKFURT, Germany (AP) - German officials are considering whether to extradite two Yemeni al-Qaida suspects arrested last week at Washington's request, officials said Monday. No date has been set for any decision, said Wolfgang Frank, a spokesman for the state court in Frankfurt, which will have to rule on the case. The men, Mohammed Ali Hassan al-Moayyed and Said Mohammed Mohsen, were arrested Friday at the Sheraton hotel near Frankfurt's international airport following a U.S. request for their arrest with a view to extradition. German officials say al-Moayyed, 58, is suspected of organizing logistics for al-Qaida in Yemen. Mohsen is...

FRANKFURT, Germany (AP) — German authorities, acting on a U.S. request, arrested two Yemeni men Friday on suspicion they belong to Osama bin Laden's al-Qaida organization, a German security official said. Federal and state police arrested the men at a hotel at the Frankfurt international airport, the security official said on condition of anonymity. One of the men was identified as Mohammed Ali Hassan Sheik al Mujahed, in his mid-50s. He is supposed to have been the imam of a large mosque in the Yemeni capital, San`a, and is suspected of being responsible for al-Qaida's logistics in Yemen, the official...