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France: More Terrorism Suspects Found With Chemical Links French officials arrested five more people last week from a terrorist cell that reportedly was seeking to acquire chemical weapons materials and planned to attack the Russian embassy in Paris, the New York Times reported Friday (see GSN, Dec. 19). “This cell had decided to hit Russian targets in France,” an Interior Ministry statement said Saturday. Four suspected militants were arrested in a suburb of Paris Dec. 16 and a fifth man, Nourredine Merabet, was arrested five days later on the French-Spanish border. Four more people were arrested last week in Romainville, another Parisian suburb, including a trained chemist who has been to Afghanistan and Menad Ben Chellali, whose brother is being held at Guantanamo Bay U.S. Naval Base in Cuba, the Times reported. During the Romainville arrests, French authorities discovered a list of chemicals needed to make a gas related to cyanide, officials said. The list also contained quantities and prices for the components, the Times reported. Some of those arrested have also spent time in militant training camps in the Caucasus Mountains along Chechnya’s border with Georgia where they met with senior al-Qaeda members who specialized in dangerous toxic materials, according to the French Interior Ministry (Craig Smith, New York Times, Dec. 28).
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