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Thursday • December;
Bomb linked to Islamic militan
PARIS (AP) — Hundreds of soldiers and police
patrolled the streets of Paris today after a deadly
bombing on a crowded commuter train, a newspa
per said investigators suspect Islamic militants.
Almost 1,000 officers were on duty at train sta
tions, airports and other public places in Paris in a
return of anti-terrorism measures imposed after a
wave of bombings by Algerian militants in the
French capital last year.
Two people were killed and 35 seriously wound
ed, seven of them critically, when a bomb exploded
on a commuter train as it was pulling into a station
near the famed Latin Quarter on Tuesday night.
No one has claimed responsibility, but Le Monde
said investigators consider Islamic militants prime
suspects.
Prime Minister Alain Juppe told the National As
sembly that there were “great similarities” between
the bombing and last year’s attacks. But Foreign
Ministry spokesman Jacques Rummelhardt said “Al
geria is just a hypothesis. Everything is possible.”
A chemical analysis showed the explosive pow
der used in the latest bomb was identical to that in
the 1995 bombs, said a Justice Ministry source.
Le Monde quoted “an official source” as saying
there had been numerous alerts of an attack in re
cent months.
An internal document written by France’s coun
terespionage agency said an Algerian radical living
in Afghanistan was preparing to “commit an attack
against French interests,” Le Monde quoted the
document as saying.
Algerian Islamic militants consider France’s tacit
support of Algeria’s army-backed government a major
obstacle to their fight to establish an Islamic state in die
former French colony in northern Africa.
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seat tore apart a
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car at rush hour
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blast. “It’s anguishing because wherever we®
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black powder were found at die site.
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against terrorism in all its forms,” President!
Chirac said. “No stone will be left unturned."
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