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http://www.japantoday.com/e/?content=news&cat=1&id=342243
"Column of water vapor 1,000 meters high seen in Pacific"
Sunday, July 3, 2005 at 17:07 JST
ARTICLE SNIPPET: "It may have been caused by the eruption of an undersea volcano in the area, the agency said. The Japan Coast Guard issued warnings to vessels planning to sail close to the area and plans an aerial survey Sunday. There is no tsunami risk following the suspected volcanic eruption, the Japan Meteorological Agency said. (Kyodo News)"
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http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1435519/posts
U.S-French Alliance Targets Terror Groups
Washington Post ^ | July 2, 2005 | Dana Priest
Posted on 07/02/2005 5:48:38 PM PDT by mdittmar
PARIS -- When Christian Ganczarski, a German convert to Islam, boarded an Air France flight from Riyadh on June 3, 2003, he knew only that the Saudi government had put him under house arrest for an expired pilgrim visa and had given his family one-way tickets back to Germany, with a change of planes in Paris.
He had no idea that he was being secretly escorted by an undercover officer sitting behind him, or that a senior CIA officer was waiting at the end of the jetway as French authorities gently separated him from his family and swept Ganczarski into French custody, where he remains today on suspicion of associating with terrorists.
Ganczarski is among the most important European al Qaeda figures alive, according to U.S. and French law enforcement and intelligence officials. The operation that ensnared him was put together at a top secret center in Paris, codenamed Alliance Base, that was set up by the CIA and French intelligence services in 2002, according to U.S. and European intelligence sources. Its existence has not been previously disclosed.
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