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...visited the scene and eventually pinned the bombing on the Libyans. He found Carlos the Jackal in 1994 and had the terrorist arrested while Carlos was sedated and waiting for an operation on his scrotum. Bruguiere helped foil Islamic radicals' plans to attack the World Cup in 1998 and Strasbourg cathedral in 2000. In the weeks after Sept. 11, while his counterparts in the U.S. and Germany were learning to pronounce al-Qaeda, Bruguiere busted one of the largest Qaeda networks in Europe (more than 20 were arrested). "It's probably not going too far to say he invented...
...FRANCE Motion Denied The European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg declined to hear the case of six Yugoslavs who wish to sue NATO. The plaintiffs, five of whom lost relatives in the NATO bombing of Radio Television Serbia's studios in April 1999, charged that the alliance violated the right to life and freedom of expression guaranteed by the European Convention on Human Rights. But the judges said in a unanimous decision that because Yugoslavia is not a member of the Council of Europe, the case is outside the court's jurisdiction...
...cells of alleged al-Qaeda schemers busted in Europe over the last year have been accused of planning attacks - in Paris, Brussels, Rome and Strasbourg - that luckily never happened. None has been linked to the one that tragically did: the suicide bombing plot of Sept. 11, centered around Mohamed Atta?s apparently autonomous cell in Hamburg. That changed last week when Spanish investigative judge, Baltasar Garzón, released a preliminary indictment against eight men alleged to have constituted a long-standing al-Qaeda cell in Spain...
...cells of alleged al-Qaeda schemers busted in Europe over the last year have been accused of planning attacks ? in Paris, Brussels, Rome and Strasbourg ? that luckily never happened. None has been linked to the one that tragically did: the suicide bombing plot of Sept. 11, centered around Mohamed Atta?s apparently autonomous cell in Hamburg. That changed last week when Spanish investigative judge, Baltasar Garz?n, released a preliminary indictment against eight men alleged to have constituted a long-standing al-Qaeda cell in Spain...
...FOILED TERRORIST ATTACK] Beghal described a plan to blow up the U.S. embassy in Paris. An earlier plot, uncovered last December, targeted Strasbourg cathedral...