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Abu Atiya planned to hit France with 2 SAMs supplied by Ruslan Gelayev
Islamist radicals on trial for terrorist plotting in France possessed two Russian surface-to-air missiles, one of them confessed. Abu Atiya told French antiterrorist judges that his radical group had acquired the Russian arms to use in terrorist strikes in France, Le Figaro newspaper reported Friday. The newspaper cited a French prosecutor's summary of the dossier as its source.The confession will reportedly be used as a basis for trials targeting 29 suspected radicals slated for next spring. French prosecutors say the missiles were furnished by Chechen guerrilla Rouslan Guelaiev, who was killed in 2004. The missiles were intended to be used to strike civilian planes in France, the newspaper said. They were transported by truck via Turkey. But all traces of the missiles disappeared after that, Le Figaro reported. Posted by: Dan Darling 2006-01-13 |
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