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5 Terror Suspects Held in France
French anti-terrorism police arrested five suspected Islamic militants from Algeria, including a man who escaped from a Dutch jail in June, officials said Sunday. The escapee, 25-year-old Redouane Daoud, and the four others were apprehended Friday and Saturday in Paris and its suburbs. The five are said to have ties to the Salafist Group for Call and Combat, a fundamentalist Islamic organization allegedly responsible for a series of deadly terror attacks in and outside Algeria. In June, Dutch officials said an Algerian terror suspect, then identified only as R.D., had escaped from prison in the southern Dutch town of Breda by climbing out of a window on a chain of blankets. Wim de Bruin, a spokesman for the Dutch national prosecutor's office, said Daoud was arrested on a tip from Dutch authorities. "We will seek his extradition. He is an important suspect," De Bruin said.Make him sleep in a sleeping bag this time, dummy... The five arrested in France are believed to have provided false identity papers to affiliates in north Africa. So they're cogs in the support network. Give them some giggle juice and see what they know. Posted by: Fred Pruitt 2002-11-24 |
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