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Here's Dumont's terrorist timeline (and related subjects in italics) as known to date:

First US troops sent to Bosnia - 1995
Dumont attemps attack on the Lyon G7 summit - 1996
Dumont arrested, convicted and imprisoned for murdering police officer in Bosnia - 1997
US airstrikes against Yugoslavia - March 24 1999
Dumont escapes from Bosnian prison - 1999
Dumont sentanced to life in absentia by French court - 2001
Dumont enters Japan - Before July 2002
Dumont arrested in Germany but allowed to re-enter Japan - December 2003
Arrested in Japan - May 2004

Sources:

Japan troubled by entry of terror suspect

From above article: "French authorities have long associated Dumont, a Muslim, with the violent Roubaix gang in northern France, which they suspect of ties with Islamic radicals. He escaped a raid on the gang in 1996 that left some members dead, though French authorities say don't have enough evidence to charge the group with links to terrorists.

He headed to Bosnia to fight in the army alongside fellow Muslims and was arrested and convicted of killing a Bosnian police officer during a robbery and sentenced to 20 years in prison. He escaped in 1999 and vanished. Dumont was convicted in absentia and sentenced to life in prison by a French court in 2001." Japan makes first al-Qaeda arrests in dawn raids

Timeline: The Milosevic years

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We can learn two things from Dumont:

1. Interpol is not anything close to an effective crime fighting tool (not to mention a guard against terrorism) if it does not even recognize that a twice convicted, double international fugative is sitting in one of their member-country's holding cells.

2. Bill Clinton attended the Lyon G7 summit and would have been on the receiving end of Dumont's scheme, yet there was no known effort by the US to bring to justice those responsible for those who plotted this attempt on the President's life. Remember how much fun this same group made of GWB for going after Saddam for the assasination attempt on his father? Bill apparently has been oblivious to the effects of terrorism even at the risk of his own life and the lives of leaders of the other G7 nations.