"Let us see ... vast underground tunnels ... proton beams ... swiss cheese ... all the markings of international terrorism.."
Posted on 10/09/2009 12:29:54 PM PDT by honestabe010
PARIS - French agents have arrested a researcher from Europe's top atomic lab on suspicion of links to al-Qaeda, fuelling fears that terrorists could be targeting the nuclear industry.
The 32-year-old man, who was detained along with his brother, works for the prestigious European Organisation for Nuclear Research (Cern) in Geneva, Switzerland, according to French police sources.
''The inquiry will doubtless say what were the objectives in France or elsewhere and indicate perhaps that we have avoided the worst possible scenario,'' said Brice Hortefeux, the French Interior Minister.
An intelligence source told Le Figaro that ''this is a very high level'' case.
The suspect is believed to have been in contact with members of al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM), an Algerian-based terrorist organisation which joined Osama bin Laden's network in 2007.
A source said French intelligence officers had intercepted messages in which the man had suggested targets in France.
''He had expressed a wish or a desire to commit terrorist actions, but had not materially prepared them,'' said the source.
The suspect had been under surveillance for about 18 months after he was identified during an investigation into a French network which sent Islamic radicals to Afghanistan.
Judge Christophe Teissier, an investigating magistrate specialising in the fight against terrorism, opened a formal inquiry last month into his activities.
The man was arrested on suspicion of involvement in a criminal association linked to a terrorist undertaking by the Central Directorate of Interior Intelligence (DCRI) at his home in Vienne, eastern France.
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What? AQ couldn’t get a nuke so now they’re going after the Black Hole Machine?
We all know deep down that its just a matter of time. God help all the innocents that will suffer.
"Let us see ... vast underground tunnels ... proton beams ... swiss cheese ... all the markings of international terrorism.."
“Al-Qaeda suspect was Cern nuclear researcher plotting attacks on France”
SNIPPET: “A “high level” al-Qaeda suspect who provided data on terror targets in France and expressed a “desire to carry out an attack” was yesterday revealed to work at Cern, the world’s largest nuclear research facility.”
By Henry Samuel in Paris
Published: 7:13PM BST 09 Oct 2009
SNIPPET: “Security sources in Paris said the suspected Islamist - arrested along with his brother on Thursday in Vienne near Lyon, worked on projects for the European Organisation for Nuclear Research (Cern) on the Franco-Swiss border just outside Geneva.
The 32-year old Frenchman of Algerian origin was last night being held with his 25-year old brother at the Central Directorate of Interior Intelligence - France’s equivalent to MI5 - in Levallois-Perret, northwest of Paris. Security sources referred to them as the “brothers H”.”
SNIPPET: “Investigators described the older man as “very high level” and said that he had been in contact with individuals linked to Al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (Aqim) - the North African wing of the terrorist network - about potential targets in France.”
SNIPPET: “The older man was a physicist who has been working on analysis projects with Cern’s Large Hadron Collider – the world’s largest atom collider designed to explore what happened after the Big Bang that allowed matter to survive and to create the universe 14 billion years ago. His work would have intensified when the collider started collecting data in a few months time.”
SNIPPET: “The decision to arrest them followed the interception of internet exchanges with people identified as having links with AQIM. The messages reportedly included information on potential targets in France.
All of the emails had been kept and would be used as evidence against the brothers, said a judicial source.
Police seized two computers, three hard discs and USB keys in a raid on the brothers’ shared home in Vienne.
Aqim is considered the biggest current threat to French domestic security.
Gee, and in pure Muslim-Arab public appeasement, not a single mention of his name. You can bet if his name was native French, Swiss, German, etc. his name would have been mentioned.
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