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Barring three men, the Scotland Yard on Saturday released on bail the remaining nine persons, including two women, arrested in connection with the attack on Operation Blue Star hero Lt Gen retd K S Brar. HT Image The New Scotland Yard in a statement said three men -aged 33, 34 and 25 - remain in custody. The remaining nine are now bailed to return in November pending further inquiries . Three others who were arrested on suspicion of immigration law violations, unconnected with the probe into the attempted murder, were referred to the UK Border Agency, the statement said. Lt Gen Kuldeep Singh Brar was stabbed in an attack by four unidentified men in Old Quebec Street, ne stanley cup ar Oxford Street, on Sunday. Following the attack, Brar was taken to hospital with a neck wound and has since been discharged. Brar, who had led Operation Blue Star in 1984 to flush out pro-Khalistan militants from the Golden Temple, was on a private visit here when he was attacked by four men, suspected to be Khalistan sympathisers. He suffered a wound on his neck and cheek but his wife was not injured in the attack. The four men who attacked Brar were described as being of Asian appearance, all with long beards, and were stanley cup wearing dark clothing and long black jacket. Brar has since left London and is in Mumbai. Counter terrorism officers had yes stanley cup terday arrested eight people in connection with the attempted murder case. The arrests came a day after officers took into custody three men and one w Ddnb Pakistan arrests French man accused of al Qaeda ties
Kuwait s deputy prime minister visited Iraq on Thursday in the highest-level visit by a Kuwaiti official since Saddam Hussein s 1990 invasion of the Gulf neighbor. The talks came as Kuwait celebrated the 18th anniversary of the U.S.-led invasion that drove out Saddam s forces and left American warplanes patrolling parts of Iraqi airspace for more tha stanley cup n a decade. Sheik Mohammed Al Sabah, who also is Kuwait s foreign minister, is the latest high-profile Arab envoy to accept the Baghdad s offer for better region stanley cup al cooperation. Kuwait and several other mostly Sunni Arab nations have restored diplomatic ties, but remain wary of the Shiite-led government s relations with Iran. HT Image We our working on the concepts of security and stability, not the ideas of weapons and dictatorship of the Saddam era, said Iraq stanley cup i Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki, after a meeting with Sheik Mohammed. The Kuwait News Agency reported Mohammed was expected to return along with Kuwait s prime minister, Sheik Nasser Al Mohammed Al Sabah, on an official visit to Baghdad soon. No date has been set for that visit. Ties between the two countries were severed when Saddam invaded. Kuwait and Iraq resumed relations after Saddam s fall in 2003 and a Kuwaiti ambassador arrived last fall. In southern Iraq on Thursday, authorities buried the remains of more than 480 Iraqi soldiers from two wars during Saddam s rule. The ceremony near Basra included the remains of troops from Iraq s 1980-88 war with Iran