A man suspected of participation in an international organization which funded terror cells in Algeria has been arrested in Pamplona. The suspect arrested in Spain was wanted by Italy for forgery of identity documents, and he is now being held on remand ahead of the extradition process to remove him to Italy. The Interior Ministry…
France is maintaining “very great vigilance” toward actions and statements by al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb, or North Africa, French Foreign Ministry spokesman Eric Chevallier said in a briefing. The al-Qaeda affiliate threatened vengeance for President Nicolas Sarkozy’s criticism of the face-covering veils worn by some Muslim women. The Algeria-based group issued a statement on…
Freed Canadian diplomats Robert Fowler and Louis Guay left Mali yesterday aboard a Canadian government plane bound for Germany this weekend to be reunited with their families. The two men were freed by their al-Qaeda-linked captors after four months of captivity. Two Europeans separately captured by al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM) were simultaneously let…
France’s most popular television series set in Marseille, France features the country’s ethnic diversity. The nightly soap opera, “Plus Belle la Vie,” that is watched by nearly a fifth of the French population. Some 13 million people tune in at least once a week to follow the fates of various families in the multicultural confusion…
This week’s issue of L’Express International, a French newsmagazine, has been banned in Algeria, Tunisia and Morocco, on the grounds that its cover story “The Jesus-Muhammad Shock” is offensive to Islam. The story title is the same as a book covered in the story. The newsweekly’s staff claim that they attempted to portray Islam’s prophet,…
