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> By ELAINE SCIOLINO
>
> Published: July 28, 2004
>
> ARIS, July 27 - Four French citizens held without trial for more than
> in France on Tuesday and were immediately detained by the French
> authorities under the country's tough antiterrorism laws.
>
> The four men, who were captured during the American-led war in
> Afghanistan on suspicion of serving as fighters for the Taliban, were
> repatriated after what President Jacques Chirac of France called "long
> and intense negotiations" with the Bush administration.
>
> Speaking to journalists during a visit to Madagascar, Mr. Chirac also
> thanked "all those who contributed to their return," particularly the
> International Committee of the Red Cross.
>
> Mr. Chirac said the four men would be dealt with under France's
> judicial system. "Justice will be done," he said.
>
> Under French law, the men can be kept under investigation for 96 hours
> on suspicion of "criminal association with a terrorist enterprise."
>
> The continued detention of hundreds of foreign suspects arrested in
> sparked a huge outcry in France and around the world.
>
> An editorial in Le Monde on Tuesday said, "If the prisoners are
> cleared of all charges, this will be a hard new blow for the
> credibility of the 'war against terrorism' waged by President Bush
> regardless of either national or international law or morality."
>
> France is still pressuring the United States to repatriate three other
>
> The Bush administration has taken the position that the prisoners are
> "enemy combatants" with no right to contest their detention in
> American civilian courts. But the Supreme Court rejected that argument
> last month, affirming the prisoners' right to challenge their
> detention in court.
>
> Even before the ruling, the administration began to release some of
> the suspects. Before Tuesday, 135 prisoners had been repatriated and
> released, and another 12 who had been repatriated were still in
> detention in their home countries, according to the Pentagon. The camp
>
> The four Frenchmen - Mourad Benchellali, Brahim Yadel, Imad Kanouni
> and Nizar Sassi - were flown to a military base in Normandy in a
> chartered French military plane, and they were turned over for
> questioning to France's counterintelligence agency, the Directorate
> for Territorial Surveillance. They will also appear before France's
> most prominent antiterrorism investigating magistrate, Jean-Louis
>
> The men's lawyers and families have not yet been allowed access to
> them.
>
> Mr. Benchellali, 24, was arrested by American troops in Afghanistan in
> February 2002. He is the brother of Menad Benchellali, who is under
> arrest on suspicion of planning to bomb Russian targets, including the
> Russian Embassy in Paris, in 2002 after Russia's crackdown in the
> Russian Muslim region of Chechnya.
>
> Their father, Chellali Benchellali, a Muslim cleric from the Lyon
> also under arrest in connection with the plot.
>
> Mr. Yadel was wanted in France in an investigation into a training
> camp set up by Islamic militants in the late 1990's in the
> Fontainebleau forest near Paris.
>
> Jacques Debray, a lawyer who represents Mr. Benchellali and Mr. Sassi,
> said Tuesday that "their families are tremendously happy" about their
> repatriation.
> -
> "The State Department officially released its annual terrorism report
> just a little more than an hour ago, but unlike last year, there's no
> extensive mention of alleged terrorist mastermind Osama bin Laden. A
> senior State Department official tells CNN the U.S. government made a
> mistake in focusing so much energy on bin Laden and 'personalizing
> terrorism.'"
>
> -- CNN, 4/30/2001.
>
>
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