http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1053667/posts "Imam and Father of a Guantanamo Bay Detainee among 7 Held in France Chechen Terrorist Crackdown"
kansas.com ^ | Tue, Jan. 06, 2004 | JEAN-BAPTISTE LABEUR
Posted on 01/07/2004 7:59:24 PM PST by Destro
Posted on Tue, Jan. 06, 2004
"Imam and Father of a Guantanamo Bay Detainee and 7 Others Held French Chechen Terrorist Crackdown
Father of Guantanamo Bay Detainee Held"
JEAN-BAPTISTE LABEUR
Associated Press
ARTICLE SNIPPET: "LYON, France - An Islamic cleric whose son is being held at the U.S. prison in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba was among seven people detained by French security agents Tuesday as part of an investigation into suspected terror networks.
The imam, Chellali Benchellali, was arrested at his home in the tough Minguettes high-rise neighborhood of Venissieux, a suburb of the southeastern city of Lyon, said a lawyer for the family.
Attorney Jacques Debray said the imam's wife and one of his sons, Hafid, also were detained in the sweep by the DST, France's secretive counterterrorism and counterintelligence agency.
Another of his sons, Mourad Benchellali, is among six French detainees suspected of ties to the al-Qaida terrorist network who are being held at the U.S. Navy base at Guantanamo Bay.
French agents Tuesday also arrested another imam, Mourad Merabet, who runs a pharmacy at the Minguettes, and Abdelwahed Regad, a 27-year-old quality controller at a Muslim abattoir, said friends and neighbors.
Police confirmed that five people were detained in Venissieux and said another two were arrested elsewhere in the Lyon region. There were no immediate details about the last two.
Some of those detained are believed to have provided logistical support, possibly including false papers, to suspected terrorists, police said, without providing further details."
re: red drink.
Yes, it would make good sense to mean the red sea.
Ruth