Paris will try 6 in bombing plotThey're lucky they won't be rendered in try pots
a 'try-pot' or blubber tub (used to render down the whale blubber into oil).
Posted on 09/20/2004 1:00:12 PM PDT by knighthawk
PARIS Six men suspected of a role in a foiled 2001 plot to bomb the U.S. Embassy in Paris will stand trial on terrorism-related charges, judicial officials said Monday.
The men are charged with ‘‘criminal association with a terrorist enterprise,’’ which carries up to 10 years in prison, the officials said on customary condition of anonymity. Two are also accused of violating French immigration laws.
France’s top anti-terrorist judges Jean-Louis Bruguiere and Jean-Francois Ricard have investigated the suspects for nearly three years. The trial could begin in early 2005, the officials said.
Among the suspects is French-Algerian Djamel Beghal, an alleged ringleader who was arrested in July 2001 in the United Arab Emirates and turned over to French custody.
While still in Dubai, Beghal told locals authorities the plot was ordered by Osama bin Laden’s al-Qaida terror network, officials said.
He identified a Tunisian accomplice, Nizar Trabelsi, who was to enter the embassy wearing a bomb belt. He told authorities that other American interests also were targeted, officials said.
Beghal later recanted that testimony while speaking to a French judge, and suggested he had been tortured in Dubai and forced to make up the story, officials said.
Trabelsi, a former professional soccer player, is serving a 10-year sentence in Belgium for plotting to bomb U.S. military personnel and involvement in an al-Qaida-linked terror ring in Europe. Another suspect, Kamel Daoudi, was picked up in Britain in 2002 bearing fake identity documents and was sent home to France.
Based on intelligence, the Paris prosecutor’s office opened an investigation into the plot on Sept. 10, 2001 — the day before the al-Qaida terror attacks on the United States.
Ping
The entire French government versus 6 terrorists.....Give me $50 on the terrorists.
At least they recognize this as a crime. Wonder what the state considers just punishment.
When I read the headline, I thought the story was going to be about a new movie starring Paris Hilton.
Paris will try 6 in bombing plotThey're lucky they won't be rendered in try pots
a 'try-pot' or blubber tub (used to render down the whale blubber into oil).
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