DUBAI (AFP) - The pan-Arab daily Al-Hayat published Sunday the names of 147 suspected members of the al-Qaeda terror network and the Taliban military who were extradited by Iran in October.

The Saudi-owned newspaper did not say how it obtained the list about which Iran informed the United Nations, but the article was datelined New York.

The names included 29 Saudis, 12 Jordanians, 13 Yemenis, six Moroccans, six Tunisians, one Syrian, seven Somalis, 35 Pakistanis and 24 others whose nationalities could not be established.

The Pakistanis and the unknown group were handed over to Islamabad, the paper said. Three Afghans and three Lebanese were also identified.

"Iran says it handed them over to their own countries through diplomatic channels," Al-Hayat said.

Seven of the Yemenis were sent to Morocco and the Tunisians to Italy, it added without explanation.

An Austrian who was returned to Vienna is also on the list, Al-Hayat said, without providing an accurate breakdown of the nationalities of all 147 names.

Iranian officials have acknowledged that they have detained a number of top figures from Osama bin Laden’s group, but have refused to give any hints as to their identities despite repeated calls from the United States to hand them over.

Iran identified to the UN Security Council over 200 suspected al-Qaeda members it said had already been extradited to their countries of origin.

The identity of those still being held has been the subject of intense speculation -- diplomatic sources and Arab press reports have pointed to the possible presence in Iran of the movement’s spokesman, Sulaiman Abu Gaith, and its number three, Saif al-Adel, as well as bin Laden’s son and heir to the network, Saad.

But Al-Hayat’s list contained no names of leading figures.