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		Parliament of France The Parliament of France is bicameral, and consists of the Senate (Sénat).
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	Encyclopedia: 1995 Islamist terror bombings in France
		In 1995, the GIA Islamist militant group staged a series of attacks against the French public, targeting public transportation.
		On September 3, a bomb malfunctioned in a square in Paris, wounding 4.
		He was involved in several gunfights and was one of the men behind the islamist bombing campaign in France in 1995.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/1995-Islamist-terror-bombings-in-France (820 words)

	Algerian Civil War - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		On March 10, 1994, over 1000 (mainly Islamist) prisoners escaped Tazoult prison in what appeared to be a major coup for the guerrillas; later, conspiracy theorists would suggest that this had been staged to allow the security forces to infiltrate the GIA.
		Zitouni extended the GIA's attacks on civilians to French soil, beginning with the hijacking of Air France Flight 8969 at the end of December 1994 and continuing with several bombings and attempted bombings throughout 1995.
		The government's efforts were given a boost in the aftermath of the September 11, 2001 attacks; United States sympathy for Algeria's government increased, and was expressed concretely through such actions as the freezing of GIA and GSPC assets and the supply of infrared goggles to the army.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Algerian_Civil_War (4591 words)

	Security Resource Net: 1995 Patterns of Global Terrorism
		Terrorism by extremist individuals or groups claiming to act for religious motives continued to dominate international terrorism in 1995.
		In most countries, the level of international terrorism in 1995 continued the downward trend of recent years, and there were fewer terrorist acts that caused deaths last year than in the previous year.
		The total number of fatalities from international terrorism worldwide declined from 314 in 1994 to 165 in 1995, but the number of persons wounded increased by a factor of tenóto 6,291 persons; 5,500 were injured in a gas attack in the Tokyo subway system in March.
	nsi.org /Library/Terrorism/terror95.html (20637 words)

	American Victims of Mideast Terrorist Attacks
		Frances E. Meloy, U.S. ambassador to Lebanon, and Robert O.Waring, the U.S. economic counselor, were kidnapped by PFLP members as they crossed a militia checkpoint separating the Christian from the Muslim parts of Beirut.
		Richard Fishman, a medical student from Maryland, was among six killed in a PLO bus bombing in Jerusalem.
		Haim Mark and his wife, Haya, of New Haven, Connecticut were injured in a PLO bombing attack in northern Israel.
	www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org /jsource/Terrorism/usvictims.html (5653 words)

	PATTERNS OF GLOBAL TERRORISM, 1995: EUROPE AND EURASIA OVERVIEW
		Islamic extremists upset with French Government policy toward the conflict in Algeria are suspected of being responsible for terrorist bombings in France during 1995 that left eight dead and 160 wounded.
		Two of four letter bombs in a public mailbox exploded as the trial of two rightwing suspects in the bombings of December 1993 was wrapping up.
		In December 1995, Russia participated in a first-of-its-kind counterterrorism ministerial conference that was called by the heads of the G-7 nations plus Russia at their June summit in Halifax.
	www.hri.org /docs/USSD-Terror/95/europe.html (2764 words)

	Suspects in GIA Bombings on Trial in France
		The most deadly of these was a bombing at the Saint Michel station on July 25, which killed 10 people and injured 116.
		Two others thought to have played a major role in the bombings did not live to face trial--Khaled Kelkal, was shot and killed by Algerian police in 1995, while Ali Touchent, also known as Tarek was shot by police in Algeria in 1997.
		Several of the defendants accused of actually planting the bombs are to be tried again before another court at a later date.
	www.ict.org.il /spotlight/det.cfm?id=271 (485 words)

	TIME Europe Magazine: Terror Takes The Stand -- (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Since 1995 al-Qaeda cells seem to have imitated the G.I.A.'s tactics: using car theft, credit-card fraud and document forgery to fund terror plots; recruiting and indoctrinating alienated youths and petty crooks from Arab communities, then using their larceny to fund jihad.
		The four-hour list of terror and murder charges read at the trial's opening will be followed up by detailed confessions both men gave of having organized the campaign and planted homemade bombs in Paris subway trains.
		Ramda was arrested in 1995 on evidence that he was the financier behind the French bombings, but British authorities have repeatedly refused to extradite him to Paris, most recently citing Belkacem and Bensaïd's claims they were tortured to implicate Ramda.
	www.time.com /time/europe/magazine/printout/0,13155,901021014-361590,00.html (1147 words)

	Terrorism Watch
		Rohan Gunaratna, a terrorism expert, said: "I am certain these attacks were carried out by groups from the subcontinent, although the operational method and modus operandi was inspired by al-Qaeda.
		Islamabad condemned the bombings as "a criminal act of terrorism" and called for the perpetrators to be brought to justice.
		Police have clarified that the six missing Pakistanis disappeared before the bombings, and were not staying at a hotel in Sharm al-Sheikh, as previously reported.
	www.iacsp.com /terror-w.html (2188 words)

	Terror Tuesday: Impact on South Asia -- Linkages of Islamist Terrorist Outfits
		Islamist terrorist and fundamentalist outfits are currently active in Hyderabad, Warangal, Nalagonda and Mahboobnagar districts of Andhra Pradesh.
		As a part of a larger design to construct an network in India for spreading terror and violence in the country, the Inter Services Intelligence (ISI), Pakistan’s external intelligence agency, has begun to utilize various Muslim dominated regions (Hyderabad in southern India is a significant place in the ISI schema) as their operational base.
		Reports indicate that various Islamist terror and fundamentalist outfits have successfully penetrated the approximately 20-lakh Muslim populace that reside in the old city in Hyderabad.
	www.satp.org /satporgtp/usa/international_links.htm (12497 words)

	Khaled Kelkal (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		On the 11th of July 1995, Kelkal was involved in the assassination of Imam Sahraoui, in his mosque in Paris.
		On the 26th of August 1995, during the islamist bombing campaign in France, a gaz bottle equipied with a detonation system was found near the Paris-Lyon TGV railway, near Cailloux-Sur-Fontaines (Rhône).
		On the 29th of September 1995, after several days of chasing in the forest of Malval, in hills near Lyon, Khaled Kelkal was found in a place called "La Maison Blanche".
	www.worldhistory.com /wiki/K/Khaled-Kelkal.htm (682 words)

	Iran's Shadow Looms over Bombings in France
		A car bomb timed to coincide with the children's dismissal injured 14 passersby and waiting parents.
		Born in Algeria and raised from early childhood in a poverty-stricken suburb of Lyon, Kelkal had turned to petty crime long before his fingerprints were found on the unexploded bomb discovered on the TGV rail line near Lyon.
		The camps' first 65 recruits were drawn from North African extremist factions, and sent to Belgium, France, the Netherlands and the United Kingdom in 1991.
	www.geocities.com /Paris/Rue/4637/terr9a.html (873 words)

	Blue's News: Edit Message
		* 1993 July 5 the IRA detonate a 1500lb car bomb (the largest used in Northern Ireland) in the centre of Newtownards in Northern Ireland, no one is killed but massive property damage is caused to the town centre.
		* 1993 Mumbai car bombings in India * 1993 IRA bomb in Warrington kills two children (Warrington Bomb Attacks) * 1993 IRA detonate a huge truck bomb in the City of London at Bishopsgate, killing two and causing approximately £350m of damage.
		* 1995 Operation Bojinka is discovered on a laptop computer in a Manila, Philippines apartment by authorities after an apartment fire occurred in the apartment.
	www.bluesnews.com /cgi-bin/edit.pl?id=220174&start=0 (1006 words)

	www.talkingsubjects.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		...Aznar survived a ETA car bombing in 1995, and Blair is part of a political generation...On the other hand, France 'sreaction to terrorism on French soil...
		...While France was in the process of abandoning Ethiopia...delimitation of the frontiers between Somalia and Ethiopia...complete surprise and refused to dealwith the...
		France says it will be "pragmatic" about post-war Iraq, setting aside...It is in the interest of Iraq...
	www.talkingsubjects.com /france.htm (3171 words)

	The New Yorker: Fact (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		France, for instance, is a secular country, largely Catholic, but it is now home to five million Muslims.
		If France can be considered part of dar al-Islam, then Muslims can form alliances and participate in politics, they should have the right to institute Islamic law, and they can send their children to French schools.
		Bruguière pointed to the Istanbul bombings in November, 2003, and the March 11th bombings in Madrid as being the opening salvos in a new attack on Europe.
	www.newyorker.com /fact/content?040802fa_fact (9987 words)

	Terrorism: Q & A \| Armed Islamic Group (Algeria, Islamists)
		The Armed Islamic Group (known by its French acronym, GIA) is a radical offshoot of Algeria’s main Islamist opposition.
		When a party of moderate and radical Islamists called the Islamic Salvation Front (FIS) won a round of parliamentary elections in 1991, the FLN nullified the victory and banned the FIS.
		In 1994, GIA members hijacked an Air France flight, and in late 1999, a French court convicted several GIA members for a series of bombings in France in 1995.
	www.terrorismanswers.org /groups/gia.html (669 words)

	National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States
		He bought or stole chemicals and equipment for his bomb, obtaining advice from three Algerian friends, all of whom were wanted by authorities in France for their roles in past terrorist attacks there.
		Generally aware that terrorism had changed since the first Bush administration, they paid particular attention to the question of how counterterrorism policy should be coordinated.
		But in August 2001,Ashcroft's deputy, Larry Thompson, issued a memorandum reaffirming the 1995 procedures with the clarification that evidence of "any federal felony" was to be immediately reported by the FBI to the Criminal Division.
	www.9-11commission.gov /report/911Report_Ch6.htm (17954 words)

	Blue's News: News Comments
		CONFLICT: GLOBAL TERROR, due for release in autumn 2005, is set in the very near future and focuses on the increasing threat of terrorism gripping the World.
		The game takes place across the world, in a number of different and hostile locations and against a merciless and corrupt enemy; this is your squad's greatest challenge to date.
		Sorry but terrorism has been arround since the beginning of time, colonial forces terrorised natives of countless nation, slave traders did the same, anyone who has ever invaded another land for financial, strategic or political reasons can be called a terrorist.
	www.bluesnews.com /cgi-bin/viewpost.pl/53409 (3667 words)

	Vaal Triangle Info Encylopedia - Commuter_rail (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Sarin gas attack on the Tokyo subway March 11
		1995 Islamist terror bombings in France July August and October
		For Train Riders, Middle Seat Isn't the Center of Attention
	www.vaaltriangleinfo.co.za /wiki/index.php?title=Commuter_rail (963 words)

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