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  • Jail sentences for French market bombing suspects sought

    11/21/2004 7:58:17 AM PST · by knighthawk · 1 replies · 180+ views
    The News International ^ | November 21 2004
    PARIS: A French state prosecutor on Friday requested jail sentences of up to 10 years for 10 suspected radical Islamist accused in a failed al Qaeda plot to bomb a popular Christmas market in Strasbourg. The prosecution alleges aides to Al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden devised the plot in 1999 in Afghanistan. Lawyers for three key suspects — Mohamed Bensakria, Slimane Khalfaoui and Yacine Akhnouche — have said their clients admitted having undergone military training in Afghanistan but denied plotting any attack. Prosecutor Christophe Teissier asked a Paris court to hand Bensakria and Khalfaoui 10-year sentences, the maximum possible...
  • Extremism Breeds 'Like a Virus' - French Judge

    12/01/2002 1:58:51 PM PST · by knighthawk · 23 replies · 252+ views
    Yahoo News ^ | December 1 2002 | Reuters
    PARIS (Reuters) - Islamic extremism is breeding "like a virus" in Europe and international cooperation is not strong enough so far to combat the threat effectively, France's top anti-terrorist judge said on Sunday. Jean-Louis Bruguiere, who started tracking terrorists two decades ago, also said he believed France was among the two or three countries most at risk of attack due to its historic links with Algeria, a Muslim-dominated former colony in North Africa. "In Europe, there's a multitude of small networks which are developing in relatively anarchic fashion, like a virus," he told state radio station France Inter in an...