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.”
http://www.thenewstribe.com/2012/05/04/france-jails-cern-physicist-adlene-hicheur-for-terror-plot/
“France jails Cern physicist Adlene Hicheur for terror plot”
By Daniel Clark - May 4th, 2012
SNIPPET: “Paris: A Paris court sentenced a Franco-Algerian nuclear physicist to four years in jail on Friday after he was convicted of plotting with al Qaeda’s north African branch to carry out terror attacks, media reported on Friday.
According to reports the police arrested Adlene Hicheur, a researcher studying the Big Bang at the birth of the universe at the European Organisation for Nuclear Research (CERN), in October 2009 after intercepting emails to an alleged contact in al Qaeda.”
SNIPPET: “Hicheur’s trial on a charge of “criminal association as part of a terrorist enterprise”, began a week after police shot dead the Franco-Algerian gunman Mohamed Merah, who killed seven people in and around the city of Toulouse.
When Hicheur was arrested at his parents’ home near CERN, the research institute which lies on the Franco-Swiss border near Geneva, police discovered a trove...”