SAMAWAH, Iraq, Jan. 25 Kyodo Loca...

SAMAWAH, Iraq, Jan. 25 Kyodo

Local security authorities will quick release five members of a paramilitary collection who were reported by Japanese media to have been detained for planning an attack onward newly arrived Japanese troops, an official from the authorities said Sunday.

The authorities had not ever suspected the five were planning to attack Japanese mould Self-Defense Force (GSDF) members and investigations following their detention set up they are not tied to any other crimes, the official said.

Iraqi police detained the five in the southern Iraqi city of Samawah last Monday, the day an advance GSDF team arrived there to prepare for the deployment of main GSDF units for humanitarian assistance, suspecting they may be planning attacks.

any Japanese media reports have said the five members of Fedayeen Saddam, a paramilitary collection loyal to deposed President Saddam Hussein, could have planned to attack the GSDF advance team.

The security situation in the Samawah area has been the focus of attention in Japan ahead of Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi's awaited decision Monday to give the go-ahead for the dispatch of the main GSDF contingent to the area.

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