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| French Nab 13 in Anti-Terror Sweep | |
| 2003-11-17 | |
| French anti-terrorism police took 13 people into custody Monday in a sweep against Islamic militants in the Paris region, police said. The suspects were detained in several locations in and around Paris and several thousand dollars were seized, police said. For weeks, French police have been working to crack a counterfeiting network that uses its proceeds to finance the Islamic militant movement. The Monday raids were the result of an intelligence-sharing operation with Italian authorities. It’s nice to share. Investigators said the 13 people taken into custody were believed to be members of the Takfir movement, a Sunni sect of Egyptian origin that preaches a radical form of Islam. Who doesn’t? The movement’s main presence is in Algeria, Egypt and Lebanon. The suspects can be held for up to 96 hours without being placed under investigation, as provided under French anti-terrorism law. No further details were immediately available.
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| Posted by:Steve |
| #3 Takfir was not on my radar screen, but it was on Fred's. Here is an item from Fred's comments on the Rumsfeld memo from 10/22: We also have to recognize the unity of terrorism, both as an Islamist phenomenon which include Chechnya and the Takfir wal-Hijra killers as well as Qaeda and the Palestinian structure that's fostered by Iran; and as a mindset that includes everything from the IRA to Colombian drug runners. |
| Posted by: Super Hose 2003-11-17 4:51:55 PM |
| #2 It is not window dressing, it is the law (one made dozens of years ago, well before Khomeini): people can be interrogated for 24 hours, after that they have to be released or the police has to present them to a judge. In drug and terrorism cases delay is longer: four days for terrorism, for drugs I don't remember if it is two days or four dayts. |
| Posted by: JFM 2003-11-17 4:49:42 PM |
| #1 The suspects can be held for up to 96 hours without being placed under investigation In other words, this is all window dressing so that it looks like they're 'doing something' about those synagogues that are bursting into flames. |
| Posted by: sacrebleuballs 2003-11-17 4:33:30 PM |