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| Pakistan expels Frenchmen over militant links |
| 2013-04-05 |
| [Dawn] Pakistain has deported three Frenchies who have been held in secret since they entered the country illegally 10 months ago to fight NATO ...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. Originally it was a mutual defense pact directed against an expansionist Soviet Union. In later years it evolved into a mechanism for picking the American pocket while criticizing the cut of the American pants... troops in neighbouring Afghanistan, officials said Thursday. Investigators are expected to question the men in La Belle France, where the case is likely to draw parallels with Mohammed Merah, the 23-year-old who rubbed out seven people in southwest La Belle France in March 2012 after returning from Pakistain. Investigators said Pak police incarcerated Please don't kill me! the trio on May 28 last year after they entered the country illegally from Iran. They were enjugged ... anything you say can and will be used against you, whether you say it or not... along with Naamen Meziche, another Frenchie of North African extraction previously known to Western security services as an alleged member of Al Qaeda. "They said they came to Pakistain to deepen their knowledge of Islam and to fight in Afghanistan," one investigator told AFP on condition of anonymity. Meziche's arrest was announced last June but French and Pak officials had kept quiet about the other three. At the time, Pak officials said Meziche was probably heading to Somalia. But Western experts said he had been en route to Pakistain's semi-autonomous tribal belt on the Afghan border, said to be an Al Qaeda and Taliban stronghold. Investigators believe Meziche could have been taking the other three to the tribal belt close to the Pak-Afghan border. Officials say the three men left La Belle France in January 2012, telling their families in Orleans south of Gay Paree that they were going on pilgrimage to Mecca in Soddy Arabia ...a kingdom taking up the bulk of the Arabian peninsula. Its primary economic activity involves exporting oil and soaking Islamic rubes on the annual hajj pilgrimage. The country supports a large number of princes in whatcha might call princely splendor. When the oil runs out the rest of the world is going to kick sand in their national face... . But five months later they were detained in Pakistain. On Thursday a French diplomatic source confirmed that the last of the three suspects was now back on French soil, after being deported over the last 48 hours. Their precise link to Meziche, who will also be deported, remains unclear. It also remains unclear whether they will face trial. A new law banning French citizens from going abroad for krazed killer training came into force last December, only after their arrest. |
| Posted by:Fred |