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Brussels may be the headquarters of the European Union, but Strasbourg is the nearest thing Europe has to a true capital. For over half a century Strasbourg has been the site of the Council of Europe, a pan-regional human rights body linking 43 countries from the Urals to the Atlantic. It is also one of the European Parliament's three homes, and houses the European Court of Human Rights and a host of other international bodies...
...Strasbourg, which means "city of the roads," has been a major trading post since Roman times. This has brought great wealth and cultural variety - Goethe studied at the university, and printing press inventor Johannes Gutenberg lived here for 20 years - but also unwanted visitors. During the 5th century, Attila the Hun prised the city from the Romans. More recently Strasbourg was ceded to France after the 30 Years War, handed over to Germany in 1871 and returned to its previous rulers after World...
...Best Excursions: The Vosges, a skiable mountain range west of Strasbourg, and the pic-turesque Black Forest in Germany are within an hour. Wine lovers might prefer the Route des Vins snaking south...
...contrary. First, they note, fake passports containing spelling and grammatical errors identical to those belonging to Cherifi were discovered in a December 2000 raid of an al-Qaeda cell in Frankfurt. And telephone numbers for members of that group, who were alleged to have been plotting an attack on Strasbourg's Cathedral and Christmas market, were found on Cherifi's mobile phone...
...April, Ressam was convicted of plotting to blow up lax on New Year's Eve. Italian antiterrorist police believe Abu Doha was also a key al-Qaeda link to terrorist cells in Europe involved in planning attacks like the thwarted attempt on the Cathedral and Christmas market in Strasbourg...