Three senior officers of the Internal Security Organisation (ISO) who were arrested and detained in Gulu by acting army commander Maj. Gen. James Kazini have been set free, sources said yesterday.

The regional Internal Security Officer Kibrai Ambaku, his deputy, K. Loti and the district Internal Security Officer, John Odong, were arrested on Sunday and freed early yesterday, sources said.

A New Vision team yesterday saw the men in Gulu but they refused to talk about their detention. They instead referred the reporters to their bosses in Kampala for a comment.

Kazini accused the officers of insubordination and of leaking military secrets to the public. Other sources had said the ISO men had defied Kazini's orders and refused to put on military uniform and join a team Kazini had set up to establish whether Kony's commander Vincent Otti, is dead. Otti was shot and wounded by the army in a recent clash.

Meanwhile, Kony rebels appeared to have reverted to their old tactics of punishing people they find riding bicycles. Last weekend, the rebels abducted 27 cyclists at Aket-ket in Lalogi sub-county in Gulu district.

Lalogi sub-county LC3 chief Steven Santos Okello said the rebels abducted the cyclists near Agang primary school in Omoro.