KABUL - The purist Islamic Taleban on Monday arrested Emma Bonino, the European Commissioner for Humanitarian Affairs, and 18 others, including CNN television reporter Christiane Amanpour. The commissioner, with her delegation, aid workers and journalists were arrested after taking pictures in a women's hospital in Kabul, according to a Taleban security official. "They have been arrested because they didn't have any letters from the authorities and they were taking pictures of women," said security official Hajji Habibullah. "It is the policy of the Taleban that no unrelated man may take pictures of women. They were brought in for this offence. The head of the hospital came to complain to us that they were taking pictures," he said. "They had tape recorders and video cameras." At midday on Monday (0730 GMT) they were still under arrest. "We have been here for two-and-a-half hours already waiting in the sun," Bonino's spokesman Filippo di Robilant told reporters at his place of detention.