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...Probably the biggest threat to us today is the scenario of a small, well-prepared group of Algerians making it to France without detection, and quickly unrolling an attack," a French intelligence official tells TIME. Interviews with French intelligence and counter-terrorism officials indicate recent busts of jihadists groups in France have uprooted networks seeking to recruit and transport young militants to fight U.S.-led forces in Iraq. The last group caught working toward an attack against France dates back to September 2005 - and had been working on instruction of AQIM's earlier incarnation, Salafist Group for Preaching and Combat...
...take the road toward respectability, what do we say to those who take that road in the opposite direction?" asked Sarkozy in Lisbon. Other leaders seem to agree. Last May, former U.K. Prime Minister Tony Blair hailed "completely transformed" relations between London and Tripoli, the "very strong cooperation on counter-terrorism and defense" - and, not incidentally, greater business opportunities for British companies seeking work on the largest oil reserves in Africa, which Libya houses. Similar trips by German and American officials to discuss strategic and business cooperation with the Libyan regime have been regular occurrences over the past three years...
...It’s officially part of Harvard’s history, and the movie features Harvard. So we thought it appropriate for it to premiere here,” Counter said...
...carpet event will also honor Washington’s wife Pauletta Washington for her work on the Pauletta and Denzel Washington Family Gifted Scholars Program in Neuroscience, which awards money to college students interested in medicine. Counter, who is also a neurobiology professor, sits on the charity’s selection committee...
...Counter said he was excited to co-sponsor the black-tie event with the College’s largest black student groups, including the Association of Black Harvard Women, the Black Men’s Forum, and the Black Students Association “because the film is about a successful, historically African American school that had the greatest debaters in the country at that time. It’s a beautiful story...