Posted on 10/10/2005 1:43:45 PM PDT by jmc1969
PARIS (AP) - A French terror cell suspected of plotting attacks on the subway and other targets in Paris had contacts with Iraq's al-Qaida leader Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, a leading French counterterrorism official said Monday.
Christophe Chaboud, head of the counterterrorism unit of the national police, also told The Associated Press that a member of the cell had returned to France with a potential bomb-making substance from Lebanon.
"There were in effect contacts between the (French) group and al-Zarqawi," Chaboud said in an interview.
Chaboud said one of the members of the alleged cell built around Safe Bourada - a previously convicted Islamic militant arrested again in France last month - had returned home from Lebanon with black cumin, a substance that can be used to make explosives. He did not elaborate.
Boy that's the truth. I've used cumin on my Pinto Beans and I guarantee it is explosive.
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