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December 26, 2003

France

Yahoo! News - France finds no evidence to support US scare over Air France flights

An anti-terrorist investigator told AFP that there were "insufficient elements to justify opening a judicial inquiry."

He said the US intelligence given to the French counter-espionage service DST, based on wiretaps and other sources, had focused on one name that US authorities thought might be tied to Al-Qaeda.

But checks showed that the individual in question, a Tunisian man with a pilot's licence, was still in Tunisia, not France, and that he was not in French anti-terrorist files.

I'll betcha that Saddam was not in French anti-terrorist files, too - in fact, shouldn't those files be called terrorist files?

Posted by Beth at December 26, 2003 10:59 AM