80 “Islamic activists” detained in 2008 in France’s terrorism sweeps

French authorities detained 80 “Islamic activists” suspected of links to terrorist recruitment cells in 2008, along with four leading figures of the Basque separatist group ETA, the interior minister said Monday. Interior Minister Michèle Alliot-Marie said in a New Year’s speech that 80 Islamic activists linked to alleged “cells for recruitment or training for jihad”…

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Explosives found in Paris department store

Police found explosives in a Paris department store after a written tip to AFP (Agence France-Press) from a group demanding the withdrawal of French troops from Afghanistan. The group called itself the Afghan Revolutionary Front; they were not previously known to French security services and did not mention Islam. The five explosives were not primed…

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Vandals desecrate graves of Muslim war veterans

Vandals daubed swastikas and anti-Islam slogans on graves of French Muslim War veterans in Ablain-Saint-Nazaire, France. About 500 of the 576 Muslim graves were defaced on the eve of Islam’s Eid al-Adha feast. President Nicolas Sarkozy called the incident “abject and revolting.” The vandalism marks the third time in the past two years that Muslim…

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