| A French man in his 30s has been taken into custody in connection with a French probe into the 2001 assassination of Afghan resistance leader Ahmad Shah Masood, Interior Minister Nicolas Sarkozy said on Wednesday. Sarkozy told parliamentary deputies that the man had been arrested on Monday, adding: âHe is currently in preventive custody. He is linked with those who assassinated commander Masood.â The minister did not say where the man was being held, but court sources said he was in custody at the Paris headquarters of Franceâs counter-intelligence service (DST). Court sources said the suspect may not be directly linked with Masoodâs assassins, but that he might have connections with a group that participated in terror training exercises in the Fontainebleau forest outside Paris. |