French police round up 9 terror suspects
2/14/2007, 5:31 a.m. ET
By JEAN-PIERRE VERGES
The Associated Press
PARIS (AP) — French counterterrorism police arrested 11 suspects as part of efforts aimed at dismantling an alleged al-Qaida-linked recruiting network to send radical Islamic fighters to Iraq, police officials said Wednesday.
Nine suspects were detained in and near the southern city of Toulouse before dawn Wednesday, following the arrest of two others at Orly airport in Paris who had just been sent home by Syrian authorities, police said.
Two of the suspects, mostly aged in their 20s, had sought to enter Iraq through neighboring Syria, but were detained by police there and remanded into French custody, police said. An investigation was continuing......
http://www.nj.com/newsflash/war/index.ssf?/base/international-21/1171446065122630.xml&storylist=njterror
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Feb 14, 2007 — DUBAI (Reuters) - A Saudi wing of al Qaeda called for attacks on U.S. oil sources across the world, saying targets should not be limited to the Middle East and listing Canada, Venezuela and Mexico as U.S. oil suppliers.....
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French police in 'terror' swoop
BBC ^ | 14 February 2007 | BBC
Posted on 02/14/2007 4:52:34 AM PST by csvset
The French interior ministry has said it has arrested 11 terror suspects, detaining men in both Paris and south-western France.
Nine are believed to be members of al-Qaeda who helped recruit fighters to take part in Iraq's insurgency.
Two of the men were detained as they arrived at Orly airport, in Paris, late on Tuesday, and the other nine in the Toulouse region on Wednesday.
The nine were reported to have been under surveillance for many months.
"These individuals from the south-west of France are allegedly involved in the organisation of a network that provided jihadists to Iraq," the interior ministry said in a statement.
The two men arrested in Paris were detained after being expelled from Syria where they were trying to cross into Iraq, the AFP news agency said.
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"French Judge Warns of Terror Threat
French Anti-Terrorism Judge Says Radical Islamist Threat in Europe Is Increasing"
By KIRSTEN GRIESHABER
NEW YORK Feb 14, 2007 (AP)
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ON THE NET...
http://osint.internet-haganah.com/archives/000818.html
(YNETNEWS.com)
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February 05, 2007
Spain arrests suspected al Qaeda member
02.05.07, 14:04
Spain said on Monday it had arrested a suspected member of al Qaeda wanted in his native Morocco for being a member of a banned Algerian militant group.
Mbark El Jaafari is alleged to be a member of the Salafist Group for Preaching and Combat (GSPC), which led an insurgency in Algeria.
Posted on 05 February 2007 @ 18:12 GMT
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(http://sfir-arabicsource.blogspot.com/2007/01/4.html )
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January 28, 2007
GSPC now AQM
For the record, the GSPC made quite clear that they had signed up with the global jihad back in 2004, when their Emir at the time issued a video statement titled "A word that has to be said". The Emir in question was killed in battle about a month later.
Much more recently, the current GSPC made a big show of officially signing on with al-Qaida, and as though to say they really mean it this time they have dropped their former name
Al-Jamaah al-Salafiyyah lil-Dawah wal-Qital
Salafist Group for Preaching and Combat
and replaced it with a new name which they claim they chose in direct consultation with dear old Osama bin Laden himself
Tanzeem al-Qaida [fi] Bilad al-Maghreb al-Islami
al-Qaida Organization in the land of the Islamic Maghreb
Who wants to be the one to tell OBL that we're going to dispense with the flowery bits and just call his band of thugs AQM (al-Qaida Maghreb)?
You can read the Arabic source here, or download this Word .doc the brothers were kind enough to provide.
Posted on 28 January 2007 @ 19:16 GMT
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"Al-Qaeda 'in plot to attack France'"
Sydney Morning Herald ^ | February 11 2007 | na
Posted on 02/10/2007 10:57:02 PM PST by fishhound
ARTICLE SNIPPET: "FRENCH intelligence has produced a dossier alleging that al-Qaeda plans an attack on the country during forthcoming presidential elections.
The Arabic-language al-Hayat daily newspaper has reported there were "several indications of a plot to copy the Spanish scenario in France", a reference to the explosions that rocked Madrid in March 2004.
The London-based daily quoted mainly "messages posted on internet sites close to al-Qaeda carrying threats against France, accompanied by pictures from the campaigns for the presidential elections", which are slated for April and May.
The newspaper said the eight-page intelligence report took three months to prepare and included contributions from different French intelligence services which identified "four sources of threat".
One came from "Iraqi networks", including returnee volunteers from European countries who had fought with the Iraqi branch of al-Qaeda."
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