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Frenchman is arrested in hunt for Moroccan bombers By Nicolas Marmie in Rabat 04 June 2003 Moroccan police arrested a French citizen yesterday wanted in connection with last month's suicide bombings. Robert Antoine-Pierre, 28, is the first foreign suspect implicated in the attacks that killed 43 people. He was taken into custody in the northern city of Tangiers, where he had been living with his Moroccan wife, security officials said. Police launched a manhunt for him after several other suspects in the Casablanca bombings claimed he gave the orders for the five coordinated attacks on 16 May that targeted Jewish...

France colluded with Iraqi secret service: report LONDON (AFP) - France colluded with the Iraqi secret service to undermine a Paris conference held in April 2000 by the human rights group Indict, the Daily Telegraph reported citing documents found in the foreign ministry in Baghdad. The right-wing daily quoted a letter from the Iraqi secret service dated March 28 saying that "one of our sources" had met the deputy spokesman for the French foreign ministry "with whom he has good relations." The letter added that no French visas would be given to Iraqi opposition leaders who wanted to attend the...

Swiss move to block Al Qaeda mobile phone supply With commendable swiftness the Swiss parliament has moved to cut off Al Qaeda's mobile phone supply, reacting to an almost entirely imaginary scare set off by intelligence services just a few days ago. Switzerland, you'll recall, was allegedly one of the few places where you could buy a prepaid GSM SIM module for cash, without the phone network ever having to know who you really are. We at The Reg expressed our doubts about this, and within hours had reports from all over Europe of how you could easily buy international-rated...