Physicist Arrested, Charged With Terrorist Link

October 13 2009

France

A French physicist of Algerian origin who works for the world's largest atom smasher at the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) has been arrested for criminal association with a terror group, the BBC reports.

Preliminary charges have been filed against the scientist, judicial officials said.

He is suspected of links to Al-Qaida in the Islamic Maghreb, a North African group.

The 32-year-old man is one of two brothers detained in the town of Vienne on Thursday....

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