Three officers have been appointed as a military court to try 15 ultra-religious youths arrested on suspicion of being involved in an extremist underground group, a military spokesman announced. The local papers report that the evidence against the arrested men may include alleged links with the bombing of the Soviet and Czech legations here earlier this year.
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