[Mb-civic] Help From France Key In Covert Operations - Washington Post

[William Swiggard]

Help From France Key In Covert Operations
Paris's 'Alliance Base' Targets Terrorists

By Dana Priest
Washington Post Staff Writer
Sunday, July 3, 2005; Page A01

PARIS -- When Christian Ganczarski, a German convert to Islam, boarded 
an Air France flight from Riyadh on June 3, 2003, he knew only that the 
Saudi government had put him under house arrest for an expired pilgrim 
visa and had given his family one-way tickets back to Germany, with a 
change of planes in Paris.

He had no idea that he was being secretly escorted by an undercover 
officer sitting behind him, or that a senior CIA officer was waiting at 
the end of the jetway as French authorities gently separated him from 
his family and swept Ganczarski into French custody, where he remains 
today on suspicion of associating with terrorists.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/07/02/AR2005070201361.html?nav=hcmodule
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