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Arrested al-Qaeda suspect has links to Cern

David Meyer ZDNet.UK | October 9, 2009 10:48 AM PDT

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French authorities have arrested a man connected with Cern, the organization behind the Large Hadron Collider scientific facility, over suspected links to al-Qaeda.

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al-Qaeda, Internet, Security, Large Hadron Collider, Cern, David Meyer ZDNet.UK
French authorities have arrested a man connected with Cern over suspected links to al-Qaeda.

The 32-year-old man was arrested in the French town of Vienne on Thursday.

The European Organization for Nuclear Research (Cern), near Geneva, is the organization behind the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) scientific facility, a giant experiment that Cern hopes will help it discover more information than is currently known about the nature of matter.

According to a report by the BBC, the arrested man is believed by French police to have "been in contact over the internet with people linked to al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb, and had been planning attacks in France".

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  • scarier access than the bomb?
    What if this person had been tapped to turn the collider into producing a blackhole that would've ate the whole Earth up? hehehe just had to put that out there happy have a good weekend everyone!
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    Judson01
    9th Oct 2009
  • RE: Arrested al-Qaeda suspect has links to Cern
    This war on terror is a fantasy distracting the world from the realities of Heaven. Anyone who takes a serious position on either side of this so called conflict has only allowed themselves to be so due to their inability to read and assess the torrents of incohence rushing in upon them daily by all the existing news vehicles.
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    1234qwerty
    13th Oct 2009
  • RE: Arrested al-Qaeda suspect has links to Cern
    If you were so literate you would have spelled 'coherence' correctly and used the verb 'do so' instead of 'be so'; yet, you didn't claim to be literate, did you?
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    1234qwerty
    13th Oct 2009

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