Senior police official says man tossed in the clink a week ago planned terror attack on 'Israeli interests' in Limassol
A Cyprus police front man said authorities have jugged You have the right to remain silent... a man on suspicion of being involved in planning a terrorist attack on the east Mediterranean island.
Spokesman Andreas Angelides said Friday that police have an "an individual in jug on possible charges pertaining to terrorism laws."
Angelides declined to identify the suspect, the level of his involvement in the plot and what the intended target would have been, saying disclosure of any details about the case could compromise an ongoing investigation.
State radio CyBC quoted an unidentified senior police official as saying that "Israeli interests" in the southern coastal town of Limassol were to be targeted. CyBC said the suspect was tossed in the clink Maw! They're comin' to get me, Maw! a week ago.
An official at the Israeli Embassy in Nicosia refused to comment on the matter.
There's getting to be quite a collection of these people. At the rate they're going, Iran won't have any left by the time the shooting starts.
The Lebanese man holding a Saudi passport was detained on suspicion of planning to attack an Israeli plane in Limassol. The Cypriot police gave no details.
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90% of the world's Muslims are Sunnis. AFAIK, most Muslim organizations are run by, and represent Sunnis. Sunni majority countries tend to persecute Shiites, almost as a matter of state policy, in some countries.
[CNBC] With his first Bastille Day approaching on Saturday, François Hollande and his government have had a good start to his presidency, impressing the French with a down-to-earth style. Mr. Hollande, a Socialist, and his prime minister, Jean-Marc Ayrault, have ordered downgrades in official luxury that have set a tone self-consciously different from that of the supposedly "bling bling" presidency of Nicolas Sarkozy.
In politics, symbols are also substance, and the changes range from the large to the small. Mr. Hollande has actually taken the train to Brussels, without a state jet following him, and his ministers have been ordered to hit the rails when possible (with a free pass on the national railway system). When they fly, they are encouraged to travel in coach class on commercial airlines. (Upgrades on Air France are probably a given for ministers, in any case.)
Official cars have been diminished in size and in luxury. Mr. Hollande has given up the presidential Citroën C6 for a smaller but hardly shabby Citroën DS5 diesel hybrid. He has reduced the ranks of his official drivers to two from three, and they are now supposed to stop at red lights. Mr. Ayrault gave up his C6 for a cheaper Peugeot 508. Cabinet ministers have also traded down, and the housing minister, Cécile Duflot, an ecologist who was criticized for wearing jeans to an Élysée Palace meeting, has ordered four official bicycles.
Champagne at receptions has largely been replaced by Muscadet, a considerably cheaper white wine, and prices at the official cafeterias for ministerial employees, always a bargain, have been raised modestly.
Even security has been put to the knife, at least a little. Junior ministers no longer get bodyguards, and the number of security workers attached to the presidency has been reduced by a third.
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Does he carry his own suit bag, like Jimmy Carter used to?
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With his first Bastille Day approaching on Saturday, François Hollande and his government have had a good start to his presidency, impressing the French with a down-to-earth style. Mr. Hollande, a Socialist, and his prime minister, Jean-Marc Ayrault, have ordered downgrades in official luxury that have set a tone self-consciously different from that of the supposedly "bling bling" presidency of Nicolas Sarkozy.
