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April 22, 2006
France: 50 Islamists Work Handling Baggage In Airport
Sadly this news is not on the online edition, but today's UK Daily Telegraph has an interesting story on its print edition, page 16. Charles de Gaulle is one of Paris's three main airports, and is the newest. In a book to be published next week by Philippe de Villiers, entitled The Mosques of Roissy, the author states that the French frontier police have identified 50 baggage-handlers who hold extremist Islamic views.
This week, to allay fears, Interior Minister Nicolas Sarkozy visited the airport (nicknamed "Roissy") to examine security arrangements. He said that individuals who were "more or less suspect" numbered only 122 out of a total of 83,000 staff who carry security badges. He stated that there were moves to remove 60% of their security clearance.
Sarkozy further stated that the findings of the security services had already been acted upon.
50 extremists? 122 radicals, who are going to have only some of their security privileges forfeited? Following the events of 9/11, and also Paris' bombing attacks by the Groupe Islam Armee, as well as the current Paris trial of 27 Islamists who stated they intended to attack, among other targets, a major French airport, Sarkozy's reassurances sound hollow.
122 people working at Charles de Gaulle airport should be fired or reassigned to duties which have nothing to do with the airport.
Posted by Giraldus Cambrensis at April 22, 2006 12:38 PM
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