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TEHERAN, JULY 18. Iran said on Sunday some Al-Qaeda operatives blamed for the Sept. 11 attacks may have illegally passed through Iran from Afghanistan months before striking in America but dismissed as `fabrications' the U.S. reports that Teheran may have facilitated the 2001 attacks. ``It's normal that five or six people may have crossed the border within a couple of months without our knowledge ... our borders are long and it's not possible to fully control them,'' the Foreign Ministry spokesman, Hamid Reza Asefi, told reporters. Mr. Asefi was responding to a September 11 Commission report, expected out on Thursday, that says Iran may have facilitated the 2001 attacks in the U.S. by providing eight to 10 Al-Qaeda hijackers with safe passage. ``Even more people may (illegally) cross the border between Mexico and the United States,'' he said. The spokesman said possible crossings through Iran happened months before the Sept. 11 attacks. AP
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