“Al Qaeda’s Nuclear Scientist? The Case of Adlene Hicheur”
Publication: Terrorism Monitor Volume: 7 Issue: 32
October 30, 2009 09:02 AM Age: 15 hrs
By: Raffaello Pantucci
stepping back in time to October 12, 2009:
(No permanent url at this time for this press release.)
http://press.web.cern.ch/press/
12 October 2009
SNIPPET: “Geneva 12 October 2009. Following the arrest in Vienne, France, on Thursday 8 October of a man suspected of links to terrorist organizations, CERN has the following statement to make.”
SNIPPET: “CERN is providing all the support requested by its host states, in particular by the French police in this enquiry.”
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-17554653
29 March 2012 Last updated at 12:42 ET
“French Cern scientist goes on trial for ‘al-Qaeda plot’”
SNIPPET: “A nuclear scientist at the Cern laboratory has gone on trial in France accused of plotting terrorist attacks.
Adlene Hicheur has been in custody since his arrest two-and-a-half years ago, after police intercepted his emails to an alleged contact in Al-Qaeda.
Court documents say the emails proposed targets and suggested Mr Hicheur was willing to be part of an active unit.”
SNIPPET: “The French domestic intelligence service, DCRI, looked at 35 emails sent between Hicheur and an alleged contact in al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM).
He had been under surveillance for 18 months as investigators monitored the account of Algerian Mustapha Debchi, alleged to be a member of AQIM.
Investigators say the emails, in which the men use pseudonyms, discuss possible “military and political targets to punish governments” in Europe and in particular France.”