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03-26-04, 02:15 PM
By ANGELA DOLAND
PARIS (AP) - Anti-terrorist police detained three suspects in connection with an investigation into a mysterious group's threats to bomb French railways, police said Friday.
The suspects, two men and a woman, were taken into custody Thursday in Paris and the suburban Val-de-Marne region, police officials said. They were being held for questioning at the headquarters of French anti-terrorist police.
An obscure group that calls itself AZF has threatened to blow up bombs at French railway targets unless it is paid millions of dollars.
On Thursday, the group issued a cryptic letter suggesting it could carry out an attack to surpass the terror bombings that killed 190 people in Madrid, Spain. But the group, which previously claimed to have mined railway tracks, also announced it was suspending its operations so it can perfect them.
The letter came a day after a bomb was found half-buried on a train track near the town of Troyes, some 100 miles southeast of Paris, triggering a massive inspection of France's rail network.
AZF has not carried out attacks, but its threats to blow up rail targets have heightened concerns - laid bare by the March 11 train bombings - about the vulnerability of European public transport systems.
France would not help us in Iraq, still they a target for Terrorist groups.
PARIS (AP) - Anti-terrorist police detained three suspects in connection with an investigation into a mysterious group's threats to bomb French railways, police said Friday.
The suspects, two men and a woman, were taken into custody Thursday in Paris and the suburban Val-de-Marne region, police officials said. They were being held for questioning at the headquarters of French anti-terrorist police.
An obscure group that calls itself AZF has threatened to blow up bombs at French railway targets unless it is paid millions of dollars.
On Thursday, the group issued a cryptic letter suggesting it could carry out an attack to surpass the terror bombings that killed 190 people in Madrid, Spain. But the group, which previously claimed to have mined railway tracks, also announced it was suspending its operations so it can perfect them.
The letter came a day after a bomb was found half-buried on a train track near the town of Troyes, some 100 miles southeast of Paris, triggering a massive inspection of France's rail network.
AZF has not carried out attacks, but its threats to blow up rail targets have heightened concerns - laid bare by the March 11 train bombings - about the vulnerability of European public transport systems.
France would not help us in Iraq, still they a target for Terrorist groups.