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One plot foiled. There will be others
IT IS the stuff of European nightmares: a clutch of suspected terrorists, two phials of unidentified liquid and one suit for protection against nuclear, chemical and biological weapons, all found on December 16th alongside wads of cash, false papers and some empty chemical containers in an apartment in a suburb to the north-east of Paris. The three Algerians and a Moroccan woman were picked up after tip-offs gleaned after earlier arrests in Paris and in Britain (where seven more men, all North Africans, were detained this week under anti-terrorism laws). The Paris group reportedly got its training in Chechnya, and is said to have had past links with a group in Frankfurt that two years ago was plotting to blow...