An engineer on a prestigious and high-profile project: another strike against the "poverty causes terrorism" claim. Which excuse will this guy trot out in court? More on this story. "Man held in France over 'Qaeda links' released: official," from Agence France-Presse, October 10 (thanks to all who sent this in):
The younger of two brothers arrested in France on suspicion of links to the Al-Qaeda militant network was released on Saturday without charge, a judicial official said.
The detention of the elder brother, a 32-year-old engineer at the CERN nuclear research lab, was extended, the source said.
He may be handed over by Monday to authorities in Paris who deal with anti-terrorist matters.
The younger brother, aged 25, was released late Saturday after being held for more than 48 hours. No charges were brought against him, the source said.
The elder brother, who worked at the European Organisation for Nuclear Research on the Franco-Swiss border just outside Geneva, had been planning to commit at least one attack, according to sources close to the case.
CERN has said the man arrested had been working with the high-profile Large Hadron Collider experiment, which aimed to investigate how the Universe formed after the "Big Bang".
Interior Minister Brice Hortefeux said Friday that investigators were trying to establish which targets in "France or elsewhere" the suspect was hoping to strike.
The pair was arrested in Vienne on Thursday, a town on the Rhone river some 100 kilometres (65 miles) southwest of the Alpine lab, by officers from France's security service acting on a warrant from an anti-terrorist magistrate.
According to officials, the engineer had made contact over the Internet with Al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb, a North African offshoot of Osama bin Laden's loosely organised global Islamist militant movement.
He had expressed a desire to carry out attacks, but had "not got to the stage of carrying out material acts of preparation", one said.
The two brothers, both French nationals, were transferred early Friday to the Hauts-de-Seine area, just outside Paris.
According to a report on the newspaper Le Figaro's website, the elder brother is a Frenchman of Algerian origin who had been the subject of a police inquiry for a year-and-a-half.
Judicial sources told AFP that investigators had come upon the pair while monitoring the Internet as part of a separate inquiry into the recruitment of would-be jihadists to send to Afghanistan as guerrillas.
CERN confirmed on Friday that a physicist working at the site had been arrested over alleged terrorist links but added that "his work did not bring him into contact with anything that could be used for terrorism".
Al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb was born in 2007 when a largely Algerian militant group, the Salafist Group for Preaching and Combat, swore allegiance to Bin Laden and rebranded itself as his organisation's local franchise.
Intelligence officials consider it one of the most serious threats to France, which has a large North African population.
so they really did want to do a big bang. so frakkin sad that we don't know were all these cockroaches are hiding.
From an Islamic perspective, it has everything to do with "poverty" -- that is, the "spiritual poverty" of the bilad al-kufr due to its rejection of Islamic theocracy, of Shari'a.
I prefer such "spiritual & moral poverty" over its fascistic 7th-century alternative.
Further to this news, there is also the possibility of a planned nuclear attack on the UK by these guys:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1219569/Revealed-Al-Qaeda-suspect-worked-UK-laboratory.html
Didn't they hear that Islam is a "religion of peace"?
Or, maybe in Arabic it says a " religion of blow them to pieces".
A language with no written vowels is pretty tricky to translate.
OT, but thought I'd share a link from jdamn's site, who used to be a regular here. On This Day (11 October) In 732, Charles the Hammer Stopped Islam's Advance on the West
Pleas join me in three cheers for Charles Martel on this 1277 anniversary of the defeat of the Muslims at Poitiers!!!
I think it is important to look at such people and those who defend them.
If the powers to be do not stop employing these followers of islam to work in these fields, you will have a inside job attack. No bomb is needed, just a act to make a reactor go mustang could do far more destruction than a nuclear blast.
And the clock is ticking.
What "Big Bang"? The Hubble S.T. has found that the universe is moving apart like fast, and faster. The "big bang" is a idea thats time may have past.
Two things stand out in this article.
"CERN has said the man arrested had been working with the high-profile Large Hadron Collider experiment, which aimed to investigate how the Universe formed after the "Big Bang"."
Oh yes, so poor, so uneducated, so illiterate. lol!!!
"Judicial sources told AFP that investigators had come upon the pair while monitoring the Internet as part of a separate inquiry into the recruitment of would-be jihadists to send to Afghanistan as guerrillas."
This guy had connections with Afghanistan Jihadists.
You know Afghanistan right? That country (if you can call it that right now) Obama is thinking about leaving because they're really just Afghani-nationalist not Pan-Islamists.
Nothing to see her people, move along.
I'm going to rewrite substantial portions of this article and put the M-word and the J-word and the I-word right where they belong.
Here goes.
"The younger of two Muslim brothers arrested in France on suspicion of links to the Al-Qaeda ('The Base') jihad gang was released on Saturday without charge, a judicial official said.
'The detention of the elder brother, a 32-year-old engineer at the CERN nuclear research lab, was extended, the source said.
He may be handed over by Monday to authorities in Paris who work on counter-jihad matters.
The younger brother, aged 25, was released late Saturday after being held for more than 48 hours. No charges were brought against him, the source said."...
'The two Muslims were arrested in Vienne on Thursday, a town on the Rhone river some 100 kilometres (65 miles) southwest of the Alpine lab, by officers from France's security service acting on a warrant from a counter-jihad magistrate.
'According to officials, the Muslim engineer had made contact over the Internet with Al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb, a North African offshoot of Osama bin Laden's loosely organised global jihad network.
'He had expressed a desire to carry out attacks, but had "not got to the stage of carrying out material acts of preparation", one said.
The two Muslim brothers, both currently French citizens, were transferred early Friday to the Hauts-de-Seine area, just outside Paris.
'According to a report on the newspaper Le Figaro's website, the elder brother is an Algerian-born Muslim with French citizenship who had been the subject of a police inquiry for a year-and-a-half.
'Judicial sources told AFP that investigators had come upon the pair while monitoring the Internet as part of a separate inquiry into the recruitment of would-be jihadists to send to Afghanistan.
'CERN confirmed on Friday that a Muslim physicist working at the site had been arrested over alleged involvement in jihad activity but added that "his work did not bring him into contact with anything that could be used for terrorism".
'Al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb was born in 2007 when a largely Algerian Muslim gang of sharia-pushers, the Salafist Group for Preaching and Combat, swore allegiance to Bin Laden and rebranded itself as his organisation's local franchise.
'Intelligence officials consider it one of the most serious threats to France, which has a large North African Muslim population."
END REWRITE.
We will know the tide is turning when, somewhere, articles including *all* the information relevant to the events being reported, begin to appear in the newspapers.