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Right wing French politician and presidential hopeful Phillipe de Villiers was roundly denounced last week after his dubious claims that much of the workforce at Charles de Gaulle airport had become infiltrated by Islamic radicals - which, in some ways, was exactly his intention. At a time when mainstream political leaders like interior minister Nicolas Sarkozy are embracing anti-immigrant positions and xenophobic National Front leader Jean-Marie Le Pen finds his popularity growing, de Villiers was clearly hoping that his sensational claims would raise the profile of his Movement for France (MFF) among the country's hard right voters, which...
...book titled The Mosques of Roissy, de Villiers charges that the defiantly fundamentalist employees at de Gaulle represent a ticking terror time bomb within the heart of one of the world's busiest airports. As proof, his book reproduces a dire report by France's police intelligence unit responsible for identifying and tracking extremists. The problem, security officials say, is the document de Villiers has brandished is bogus - containing errors and inaccuracies police intelligence agents would never make. Worse yet, they add, his false alarm may have ruined work of agents who are watching a few airport employees actually suspected...
...weekend spent in the park to get ready for the march, which will take this crowd a few miles east to Chicago?s Grant Park. ?This is the way that America was built,? said Ivan Miller, 43, a criminal justice student at Westwood College near O?Hare International Airport. ?I?m a black man, and I don?t take offense that the spotlight is on this one population. That?s what America?s about - people coming together, struggling together from all different cultures...
...protests over labor-market reform last month. Villiers, whose Movement for France presents a somewhat less incendiary alternative to Le Pen, landed a media coup last month with his claim that Muslim radicals had systematically infiltrated the ground crew and support staff of Paris' Charles de Gaulle airport. Official sources within France's police intelligence agency have contested Villiers' sources, but the prospect that he could be even partially right means Sarkozy - whose responsibility is at issue - can't ignore him outright. Still, Sarkozy's initiative has left some puzzled. Until now, immigration hasn't been...
...protests over labor-market reform last month. Villiers, whose Movement for France presents a somewhat less incendiary alternative to Le Pen, landed a media coup last month with his claim that Muslim radicals had systematically infiltrated the ground crew and support staff of Paris' Charles de Gaulle airport. Official sources within France's police intelligence agency have contested Villiers' sources, but the prospect that he could be even partially right means Sarkozy - whose responsibility is at issue - can't ignore him outright. Still, Sarkozy's initiative has left some puzzled. Until now, immigration hasn't been...