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2003-10-27 Down Under

Australian Qaeda suspect deported to France

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Posted by Paul Moloney 2003-10-27 2:23:13 AM|| || Front Page|| [1 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 More details on our friend Willie:
Brigitte, who French officials say spent months in al-Qaida training camps in Pakistan and Afghanistan, was captured Oct. 9 in Sydney after France warned Australia of his suspected al-Qaida ties. He was returned to France under guard on Oct. 17 and placed under investigation afterward. Under questioning, Brigitte acknowledged he had traveled to Afghanistan to fight alongside the Taliban against U.S. forces after the Sept. 11, 2001 terror attacks, French officials said. Carr said contacts Brigitte had made and training he had received in Pakistan and Afghanistan "confirmed that he learned about explosives." Brigitte organized survival training lessons in Fontainebleau forest outside Paris before the Sept. 11 attacks, a French judicial official said. It was unclear who was participating in the training. He is also also suspected of running false passports to the assassins of former anti-Taliban rebel leader in Afghanistan, Ahmed Shah Massood, who was slain just days before the al-Qaida attacks on the World Trade Center and Pentagon, the French official said on condition of anonymity. Brigitte is originally from the French Caribbean island of Guadeloupe and had taken the Muslim name Abdelrahman, Australian media reported Monday.

If the French don't want him, I bet the Afghan government would like to talk to him about Massood's killing.

Posted by Steve 2003-10-27 3:12:45 PM|| 2003-10-27 3:12:45 PM|| Front Page Top

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