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...terror threat in the early 1990s, and his frequently controversial methods of battling it. After France became the first European nation targeted by jihadist attacks - a thwarted 1994 attempt to crash a fuel-filled airliner into central Paris; and a series of bombings in 1995-96, all orchestrated by Algeria's Armed Islamic Group - Bruguiere led French security services in identifying the nature, structure, and methods of jihadist terror networks, then moving to uproot and destroy them. "It was a very unique situation, because we were having to identify and learn about this deadly disease, and trying to cure...
...nails packed into the two Mercedes found by police in London before their deadly cargo could be detonated. He adds that store-bought gas cylinders used as charges packed within nails acting as shrapnel upon detonation was the technique favored during the 1995-96 bombing campaign in France by Algeria's radical Armed Islamic Group - the first time jihadist terror struck Europe. "Use of the nails and the size of the explosion that would have occurred makes it clear the intent was very definitely to kill and maim," the French official says. "But the method takes...
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...Born in Thailand, Vergès fought in the French Resistance before becoming a lawyer, defending Communist students who protested the departure of French soldiers to the Algierian war. In Algeria he took up the case of Djamila Bohired, the anti-colonial bomber of cafés. After he won her freedom, they married and had two children. He then vanished for eight years, returning to become the lawyer of choice for terrorists - or freedom fighters? - from Europe and the Middle East. ("Today's Palestinian," he says, "is yesterday's Algerian.") Some of these participants speak fondly onscreen of their...
...Closes In Re Brian Bennett's "Last Call in Iraq," about how the violence there is closing in even on the Green Zone [May 7]: The British surrendered and pulled out of Ireland. The French surrendered and pulled out of Algeria. What the Republicans now call surrender in Iraq the rest of the world will surely refer to as "ending the illegal occupation." Jay Williams, Austin, Texas...