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To: Cindy; All
French Spy Chief: al-Qaida Not Destroyed

By JOHN LEICESTER
Associated Press Writer

PARIS (AP) -- The al-Qaida network has been severely destabilized but not destroyed by the war on terror and still represents a "very motivated and very dangerous" threat, the head of France's domestic intelligence agency said Friday.

At the same time, French intelligence has over the past 18 months monitored "a surge in strength" by terror cells that have no organizational links with al-Qaida but which "exist all over Europe," Pierre de Bousquet de Florian said in an interview with The Associated Press.

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15,245 posted on 01/25/2004 7:38:38 PM PST by JustPiper (Register Republican BUT Write-In Tancredo for March !!!!)
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To: JustPiper
The first part I agree with; the second part well the jury is till out.

I'm not French.
15,252 posted on 01/25/2004 7:47:53 PM PST by Cindy
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