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FOILED DEC. 25-26, 2000 STRASBOURG, FRANCE German investigators picked up four men across the Rhine River in Frankfurt on the eve of what they said was a planned bomb assault on Strasbourg's cathedral and market...
...German information, on June 22, by which time the formerly sleek 40-year-old had grown a scruffy beard and melded into the transient worker milieu of Alicante. He now awaits trial with his "brothers" in France, accused of planning an attack on the marketplace in front of Strasbourg?s cathedral. German police have seized a video shot from a moving car, laying out the approach and escape route and lingering on the cathedral. The soundtrack is jihad battle songs from the car?s cassette deck and occasional curses from the occupants about "Christian dogs...
Mohammed Bensakhria, 40 Algerian Status: Arrested in Alicante, Spain, June 22; extradited to France in July. Believed to be head of a Frankfurt cell and a key player in organizing bin Laden terrorist groups in Europe. Fled Frankfurt after police foiled a plot to attack a Strasbourg market in December...
...FRANCE Damage Done The European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg ordered Britain to pay damages to the relatives of 12 people, 10 of them members of the Irish Republican Army, shot dead in Northern Ireland between 1982 and 1992. The killings, mostly carried out by security forces, were not declared unlawful but the judges said they had been improperly investigated. Responses to the ruling split along sectarian lines. Nationalists said it confirmed that state killings were covered up. Unionist First Minister David Trimble described the decision as "astonishing and perverse." Britain is considering an appeal...
...issues, such as parliamentary reform, the three often club together to push their case. For example, the end of the Friday votes in Strasbourg was the first step toward their goal of canceling the Parliament's expensive monthly treks to Strasbourg altogether. Despite their youth, they are old hands at playing the Brussels power game. Before they were elected M.E.P.s, all three worked as speechwriters or policy wonks in various E.U. institutions, picking up language skills, contacts and a shared distaste for bureaucracy. With their personal websites, e-mail campaigns and regular appearances on high-brow talkshows, they know...