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  • France - Islamists threaten to shoot down airliners with SAM-18 missiles from Chechen mafia

    10/28/2005 2:49:38 AM PDT · by HAL9000 · 9 replies · 898+ views
    Le Figaro via Babelfish translation ^ | October 28, 2005 | Jean Chichizola
    TWO GROUND-to-air MISSILES of Soviet manufacture, of type SAM 18, imported into Europe remain untraceable. Acquired in 2002 by a group of French and Algerian islamists near the Maffia tchetchene, these weapons are in the center of a terrorist project aiming at cutting down a civil aircraft near an airport of the Hexagon. Until now, Bruguière judge, who inquires into this cell of radical islamists, suspected them of having prepared attacks chemical or bacteriological in Paris. But the testimony of a high person in charge for Al-Qaida held in Jordan revealed that this group involved in Tchétchénie had other...