NAIROBI, Kenya, October 23, SPA -- Somali government security forces have freed a top U.N. food-aid official after holding himfor days in detention in Mogadishu, a U.N. spokesman saidTuesday. Idris Osman, the Somali head of World Food Programoperations in Somalia's war-battered capital, had beenseized on Wednesday when dozens of armed security agentsstormed a U.N. compound. Officials had said they wereinvestigating Osman for unspecified crimes. WFP spokesmanSaed Warsame said Tuesday that Osman had been released, butgave no further details. --SPA www.spa.gov.sa/492690