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Paris Airport Strips 72 Muslim Staff of Security Clearance (11/2/06)

By Alex Duval Smith in Paris Published: 02 November 2006

Seventy two employees of Paris's main airport have lost their security clearance after an anti-terrorism investigation that they posed a security risk.

The employees - mainly aircraft cleaners or baggage handlers - are suspected by France's anti-terrorism co-ordination unit, Uclat, of having links with radical Islam, or of attending terrorist training camps in Pakistan and Afghanistan.....

********According to Uclat, one was a friend of Richard Reid, the British "shoe bomber" who tried to blow up a flight from Paris to Miami in December 2001 and is serving a life sentence in the United States.**************

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59 posted on 11/02/2006 4:55:07 AM PST by all4one (9/11 Never Forget - Never Forgive -- Prayers for the families & our soldiers)
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To: all4one

Thank you, all4one.

Events and circumstances are really starting to hit home for France.


62 posted on 11/02/2006 6:17:08 AM PST by Donna Lee Nardo (DEATH TO ISLAMIC TERRORISTS AND ANIMAL AND CHILD ABUSERS.)
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To: all4one

Frightening --- and I wonder if it is more widespread than France.


69 posted on 11/02/2006 12:41:53 PM PST by Cindy
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