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Switzerland probes scientist's alleged terror ties: official
Geneva (AFP) Nov 9, 2009 Swiss police have opened an investigation following the arrest of a nuclear scientist in France over alleged links with Al-Qaeda, a Swiss official told AFP on Monday. "The public prosecutor of the Confederation is conducting a police investigation into support for a criminal organisation," spokeswoman Jeannette Balmer said. "The case was launched at the end of October. It is being conducted against persons unknown," she added, declining to give further details. A judicial source said the probe was linked to the arrest last month of Adlene Hicheur, 32, a physicist who was conducting research related to the atom smashing experiment at the European Organisation for Nuclear Research (CERN). French magistrates have charged Hicheur, who also worked at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (EPLF) in Lausanne, with "membership of a terrorist group." He was later remanded in custody by French magistrates for "membership of a terrorist group" over his alleged links to Al-Qaeda. CERN operates one of the world's leading atomic particle research laboratories with a 27 kilometre (15 mile) particle accelerator running under the Franco-Swiss border just outside Geneva. Share This Article With Planet Earth
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We do not need help guarding nukes: Pakistani generalIslamabad (AFP) Nov 9, 2009 Pakistan's military chief on Monday said that his country did not need any foreign help in guarding its nuclear facilities because they were already well protected. Islamabad on Sunday angrily rejected a media report in the United States that raised fears of a militant seizure of Pakistan's nuclear weapons and suggested that the US had a hand in protecting the arsenal. Pakistan's ... read more |
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