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	Paris embassy attack plot - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		This article is about the Al-Qaida plot to destroy the United States embassy in Paris, France, as well as a munitions depot in Belgium.
		The plot began to unravel when a 36-year old French Algerian conspirator named Djamel Beghal was arrested in late July 2001 for passport fraud at Dubai International Airport in the United Arab Emirates.
		Investigators say that the discovery of the Paris plot uncovered a large network of Islamist terrorists in seven European countries and the United Arab Emirates.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Paris_embassy_attack_plot (673 words)

	CBS News \| Embassy Water Was Possible Target \| February 25, 2002 08:31:16
		Embassy officials said Monday that one of the walls had been "chipped away," to a depth of about two feet — a large enough gap to allow someone to crawl through.
		Embassy employees were briefed by the U.S. ambassador, who urged them to be aware of changes in their surroundings as part of security measures which officials described as already tight.
		The embassy was closed for three-days in January 2001 in response to credible threats of a possible attack.
	www.cbsnews.com /stories/2002/02/25/attack/printable330412.shtml (766 words)

	COURT TV ONLINE - TOP NEWS
		PARIS (AP) — A French-Algerian man has provided authorities with intricate details of a plot to carry out a suicide mission against the U.S. Embassy in Paris, saying he was recruited by Osama bin Laden's deputy and told the time to act had come, officials said Tuesday.
		Beghal outlined the plot for a suicide mission against the U.S. Embassy in Paris that was to be carried out before March of next year, according to court officials, who spoke on condition of anonymity.
		The embassy declined to comment on the alleged plot other than to say in a statement: "This is part of an ongoing investigation by French authorities, in whom we have full confidence."
	www.courttv.com /assault_on_america/1002_suicideattack_ap.html (580 words)

	Man tells of plot to attack U.S. Embassy in Paris \| Chron.com - Houston Chronicle
		PARIS -- A French-Algerian man has provided authorities with intricate details of a plot to carry out a suicide mission against the U.S. Embassy in Paris, saying he was recruited by Osama bin Laden's deputy and told the time to act had come, officials said today.
		He said an attack was also planned for an American cultural center but embassy officials said today there is no such center.
		According to the plan, another man -- Nizar Trabelsi, a Tunisian who was arrested Sept. 13 in Belgium -- was to penetrate the embassy, strapped with explosives, while a minivan was to be detonated outside the cultural section, Beghal told the court during 11 hours of questioning Monday.
	www.chron.com /disp/story.mpl/special/terror/front/1070317.html (623 words)

	Court convicts ringleader, five others in plot to attack U.S. Embassy in Paris North County Times - Nation / World -
		PARIS -- A French court convicted six men Tuesday in an alleged plot inspired by al-Qaida to send a suicide bomber into the U.S. Embassy in Paris, closing a six-week trial that shed light on the spread of Islamic radicals in Europe.
		Trabelsi was allegedly to serve as the suicide bomber in the embassy plot.
		The prosecution claimed the plot to attack the U.S. Embassy was concocted in Afghanistan with leading al-Qaida lieutenant Abu Zubaydah, who was captured in March 2002.
	www.nctimes.com /articles/2005/03/16/news/nation/21_14_023_15_05.txt (1088 words)

	USATODAY.com - Paris bomb plot ringleader gets 10 years (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		PARIS (AP) — A French court on Tuesday gave the maximum 10-year prison sentence to the ringleader of an alleged plot to send a suicide bomber into the U.S. Embassy in Paris.
		The defendants all denied any connection to a terror plot, and Beghal testified that his confession of a plan to send a suicide bomber into the U.S. Embassy was obtained under torture after his July 2001 arrest in Dubai, United Arab Emirates.
		No solid evidence of a plot was presented at the trial, leaving the panel of three judges to untangle a trail of phone calls, meetings with suspect acquaintances and trips.
	www.usatoday.com /news/world/2005-03-15-paris-bomb-plot_x.htm?csp=36 (560 words)

	Al-Qaida - dKosopedia
		The largest attacks for which al-Qaida is believed to have been responsible were the September 11, 2001 Terrorist Attack on the World Trade Center in New York and The Pentagon in Washington DC.
		The most destructive terrorist act ascribed to al-Qaida was the series of attacks in the U.S.A. on September 11th, 2001, an attack the group's spokesman Sulaiman Abu Ghaith defended on widely-distributed videos in October 2001.
		Since the American attack, members of the group are suspected of fleeing to the tribal areas of the Northwest Frontier Province and Baluchistan, Pakistan.
	www.dkosopedia.com /wiki/Al-Qaida (2435 words)

	USATODAY.com - Small bomb wounds 9 at embassy in Paris (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		PARIS (AP) — A package filled with explosives blew up outside the Indonesian Embassy in Paris on Friday, slightly wounding nine people in the first terror attack in the French capital in years.
		French Interior Minister Dominique de Villepin said a "bomb of medium strength" exploded beneath the flag that hangs from a balcony at the embassy in Paris' 16th district.
		The last major terrorist attacks in the French capital occurred when Paris was hit by a wave of deadly subway bombings in 1995 and 1996 — mainly the work of Algerian Islamic radicals.
	www.usatoday.com /news/world/2004-10-08-paris-blast_x.htm (649 words)

	HeraldNet - Man says he was recruited by bin Laden for suicide attack on U.S. Embassy in Paris (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		PARIS - A French-Algerian man has provided authorities with intricate details of a plot to carry out a suicide mission against the U.S. Embassy in Paris, saying he was recruited by Osama bin Laden's deputy and told the time to act had come, officials said Tuesday.
		According to the plan, another man - Nizar Trabelsi, a Tunisian who was arrested Sept. 13 in Belgium - was to penetrate the embassy, strapped with explosives, while a minivan was to be detonated outside the cultural section, Beghal told the court during 11 hours of questioning Monday.
		An investigation into the plot was opened in France on Sept. 10 - a day before the terrorist attacks on New York and Washington.
	www.heraldnet.com /stories/01/10/2/14478178.CFM (634 words)

	>FromParis - Panoramas : virtual visit, panoramic views, photographs, Quicktime VR, 360°, free ecards and free ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Built on top of the Paris Metro station "Montparnasse Bienvenüe", the 58 floors of the tower are mainly occupied by offices, while two floors are open to the public for viewing the city; the 56th floor with a restaurant, and the terrace on the top floor.
		North of Les Invalides, its courtyard is extended by a wide public esplanade where the embassies of Austria and Finland are neighbors of the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs, all forming one of the grand open spaces in the heart of Paris.
		Paris is also famous for its tree-lined boulevards such as the Champs-Élysées, and for its many architectural gems.
	www.fromparis.com /html/panoramas.php?pano=000006_01 (2541 words)

	Osama bin Laden (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		He has denied accusation although a videotape captured in Afghanistan in 2001 showed him discussing the attacks in which if the tape is authentic strongly that he was at the least a in planning them.
		The 2000 celebration terrorist attacks plot failed as did the Paris embassy terrorist attack plot.
		The launched heavy air attacks against areas in Afghanistan- Pakistan border area such as the Tora Bora mountains where it was believed bin may have been hiding in caves.
	www.freeglossary.com /Osama_Bin_Laden (3160 words)

	ipedia.com: Osama bin Laden Article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		He has denied this accusation, although a videotape captured in Afghanistan in 2001 showed him discussing the attacks in language which, if the tape is authentic, strongly suggested that he was at the least a participant in planning them.
		It is also alleged that Osama and the Indonesian terrorist known as Hambali funded the Operation Bojinka planned terrorist attack until police discovered the plot in Manila, Philippines on January 6, 1995.
		The U.S. launched heavy air attacks against areas in the Afghanistan-Pakistan border area, such as the Tora Bora mountains, where it was believed bin Laden may have been hiding in caves.
	www.ipedia.com /osama_bin_laden_1.html (3129 words)

	IMC Hamilton Home: Re: Investigator links Europe's spy agencies to CIA flights
		The first militant attack that al-Qaeda allegedly carried out consisted of three bombings which were targeted at U.S. troops in Aden, Yemen, in December 1992.
		The most destructive act ascribed to al-Qaeda was the series of attacks in the USA on September 11th, 2001.
		The attack was the deadliest terrorist action in the history of Egypt.
	hamilton.indymedia.org /mod/comments/display/186/index.php (1062 words)

	BBC News \| EUROPE \| Analysis: The Paris suicide attack 'plot'
		As more details of the planned attack emerge, it appears that the militants were targeting a US cultural centre in Paris as well as the embassy itself.
		His task was to enter the US embassy, just off the Place de la Concorde, with explosives strapped to his body, and blow himself up.
		The most deadly attacks came in Kenya and Tanzania in 1998, when more than 200 people died as trucks filled with explosives were rammed into the buildings.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/world/europe/1575065.stm (360 words)

	Patterns of Islamic Terror (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		The attack killed 4 U.S. citizens who were sucked through a hole made by the blast, 1 infant, and 9 injured, although the plane safely landed.
		The last of the 2000 millennium attack plots fails, as the boat meant to bomb USS The Sullivans sinks.
		Singapore embassies terrorist attack plot foiled March 24 - 20 people die and 93 injured in 3 bomb attacks on Russian towns near the border of Chechnya.
	www.strategypage.com /dls/articles/2004102822.asp (4466 words)

	Nizar Trabelsi - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Tunisian is suspected of plotting the Paris embassy terrorist attack plot.
		He was accused of planning to strap a bomb onto himself before walking into the embassy.
		He was convicted of trying to attack the Belgian airbase, Kleine Brogel, containing a nuclear weapon storage, guarded by American soldiers.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Nizar_Trabelsi (226 words)

	French Court Sentences Islamists for Plot to Attack US Embassy
		That was the sentence handed down to 39-year-old Djamel Beghal, for his role in a plan to attack the U.S. embassy in Paris.
		French prosecutors claim that it was in Afghanistan that a plot was hatched to target U.S. interests in France, with the help of a senior al-Qaida member, Abu Zubaydah.
		He was only guilty of having religious opinions as a devout Muslim, and of having relationships with a lot of different people, and of confessing to things he did not do under torture.
	www.iwar.org.uk /news-archive/2005/03-15-2.htm (340 words)

	Al-Qaeda - Article from FactBug.org - the fast Wikipedia mirror site (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Al-Qaeda gained worldwide notoriety after it was blamed for the September 11, 2001, attacks on the World Trade Center in New York City and the Pentagon in the Washington, D.C., area.
		Following the September 11, 2001 attacks by al-Qaeda, the United States began to build up military forces in preparation for an attack on Afghanistan (whose government was said to harbor bin Laden's organization) in response.
		Previous attacks attributed to bin Laden and al-Qaeda were, at the time, claimed by organisations under a variety of names.
	www.factbug.org /cgi-bin/a.cgi?a=1921 (3051 words)

	Hugh Hewitt
		Anthrax attacks on the offices the United States Congress and New York State Government offices, and on employees of television networks and tabloid.
		October: John Allen Muhammed and Lee Boyd Malvo conduct the Beltway Sniper Attacks, killing 10 people in various locations throughout the Baltimore-Washington Metropolitan Area from October 2 until they are arrested on October 24.
		I guess we are to believe that had the United States simply not invaded Iraq, the world would be at peace, the Kashmir, Thailand, Indonesia, the Phillipines and of course Lebanon and the West Bank and Gaza would be far along in their transition to Democracy.
	hughhewitt.townhall.com /g/3933f196-a881-444a-a869-d19beca7666c (875 words)

	Osama bin Laden Biography (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Al-Qaeda was allegedly involved in several unsuccessful conspiracies, including the 2000 millennium attack plots to bomb Los Angeles airport, several tourist sites in Jordan and the USS The Sullivans, and well as the subsequent Paris embassy terrorist attack plot.
		Whereabouts After the September 11 attacks, the United States asked the Taliban government of Afghanistan to "hand him over." The Taliban counter-offer to try bin Laden in an Islamic court or extradite him to a third-party country was deemed unacceptable by the U.S. government.
		Asked whether he approved of terrorism and of attacks on civilians, he replied: "We believe that the worst thieves in the world today and the worst terrorists are the Americans.
	www.solcomhouse.com /osamabinladen.htm (4856 words)

	FOXNews.com - Paris Embassy-Plot Trial Opens - U.S. & World
		PARIS — The trial of six men accused of plotting to bomb the U.S. Embassy in Paris opened with testimony from the suspected ringleader.
		During two months of detention in Dubai, he told local authorities of a plot to target U.S. interests in France, notably the American Embassy, and said the scheme was ordered by Usama bin Laden's terror network, officials have said.
		Trabelsi is serving a 10-year sentence in Belgium for plotting bomb attacks on U.S. military personnel and involvement in an Al Qaeda-linked ring in Europe.
	www.foxnews.com /story/0,2933,143259,00.html (975 words)

	Reports: Paris terror plot foiled - International Terrorism - MSNBC.com
		PARIS - Authorities fear that a suspected Islamic terror cell broken up in France was plotting attacks on the Paris subway, an airport and an intelligence agency's headquarters, newspapers said Tuesday.
		The suspect, identified by the newspaper only as "M.B.," was an alleged group member who indicated that the attacks were being planned in France, the report said.
		The nine were apprehended in Monday morning raids west of Paris and in Evreux, 55 miles northwest of the French capital.
	www.msnbc.msn.com /id/9501919 (553 words)

	IMC Hamilton Home: Investigator links Europe's spy agencies to CIA flights (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		The leaders of the French Revolution were Freemasons and Illuminati, or their agents and dupes, carrying out a secret plot to overthrow Europe's monarchies and the Christian religion.
		By the mid-19th century the Jews - non-Christian, urban, and only recently liberated from civic disabilities - were in several countries coming to be seen as the major enemy by the rural-based forces of reaction and clericalism.
		An extremely popular thriller of this period, When it was Dark by Guy Thorne, describes the plot of a Jewish millionaire to destroy Christianity by manufacturing fake archaeological data on the life of Jesus.
	hamilton.indymedia.org /mod/otherpress/display/68 (4095 words)

	Varifrank: Question of the Day: Is London Really Bush's Fault?
		February 25: Baruch Goldstein kills 29 Palestinian civilians in an attack in the Cave of the Patriarchs in Hebron.
		A handwritten note carried by the gunman claims this was a punishment attack against the "enemies of Palestine".
		In two further attacks on 30 April, suspected accomplices detonate a bomb and spray a tourist coach with gunfire.
	varifrank.com /archives/2005/07/question_of_the_2.php (3229 words)

	FOXNews.com - Syrian Security Foils Attack on U.S. Embassy; Al Qaeda Group Eyed - Middle East Map \| News \| Crisis
		As at most American embassies worldwide, a local guard force patrols outside the compound's walls while U.S. Marines are mostly responsible for guarding classified documents and fighting off attackers inside the compound.
		Rice, meeting with her Canadian counterpart in Nova Scotia, would not speculate on whether Tuesday's attack may be an indication that the regime's control is slipping.
		The embassy's charge d'affaires, Michael Corbin, met with Interior Minister Bassam Abdel Maguid at the scene, and spoke by phone with assistant minister of foreign affairs, Ahmed Arnous, according to the statement.
	www.foxnews.com /story/0,2933,213425,00.html (1394 words)

	:: HARPAZO's ARCHIVES ... September 1, 2001 - September 24, 2001 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Two weeks after the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center, the city is making arrangements for families of the missing to file death certificates before their loved ones' bodies are recovered.
		The plot was disclosed as Israel resisted U.S. pressure to convene a summit with Palestinian Authority Chairman Yasser Arafat.
		Riyadh is reportedly concerned about the possibility of a major terrorist attack on the royal palaces being sparked by the outbreak of hostilities in Afghanistan or elsewhere, as the U.S. prepares for a major offensive against the forces of Islamic terrorist Osama bin Laden.
	www.harpazo.net /archives/2001/September2001.html (17189 words)

	No Place to Run
		January 6: Operation Bojinka plot to bomb 11 U.S. airliners is discovered on a laptop computer in a Manila, Philippines apartment by authorities after an apartment fire occurred in the apartment, by Jemaah Islamiyah/Konsojaya/Abu Sayyaf Group/Ramzi Yousef/Khalid Shaikh Mohammed.
		September 11: The attacks on September 11 killed 2,997 in a series of hijacked airliner crashes into two U.S. landmarks: the World Trade Center in New York City, New York, and The Pentagon in Arlington, Virginia.
		The attacks are believed by many to be the first suicide bombings in Western Europe.
	www.freerepublic.com /focus/f-news/1712146/posts (5438 words)

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