Posted on 10/12/2009 9:52:25 PM PDT by bruinbirdman
A French physicist with the European atomic research centre near Geneva was charged with terrorism offences by a Paris judge last night after investigators said that he offered to work with the North African branch of al-Qaeda.
Adlène Hicheur, 32, who is of Algerian origin, was arrested last week with his younger brother after intelligence agents intercepted his alleged internet contacts with al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb.
The physicist, who works at the giant atomic collider at CERN (European Organisation for Nuclear Research), which straddles Swiss and French territory, told the Islamic group that he was interested in committing an attack but had not begun any material preparation, according to police sources. He had acknowledged contacting the militant organisation, they said.
The brother was released last weekend without charge.
Judge Christophe Teissier, of the anti-terrorist branch, ordered the French internal security service, the DCRI, to open an investigation into the possible offence of “association with criminals in relation with a terrorist enterprise”. Judge Teissier placed the scientist under formal investigation and ordered his detention.
The arrest raised the possibility that Islamist militants could be seeking nuclear weapons technology or planning to attack nuclear targets.
Dr Hicheur is reported to have worked for the British Government’s Rutherford Appleton Laboratory (RAL) in Oxfordshire for about a year in 2005. He was placed under surveillance by French officers last year after US intelligence services intercepted internet messages he allegedly sent to contacts close to al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (Aqim).
However, his arrest last week has sparked a furious row among France’s anti-terrorist magistrates. Judge Teissier’s critics say that he missed an opportunity to obtain invaluable information about Aqim networks by moving to detain the suspect at an early stage in his investigation. They said that he should have
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“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.”
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...”
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