France Loses its One-Man War on Terror
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Long before anyone in the U.S. was taking al-Qaeda seriously, Jean-Louis Bruguiere warned of its danger. His retirement ends an era
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French Interior Minister Dominique de Villepin criticised the policy of "head-on attack" against terrorism in an interview published Monday, saying it encouraged violence and helped recruit terrorists.
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A French parliamentary deputy heading an unofficial and widely criticized operation to free two French journalists held by Islamic militants in Iraq said Monday that contact had been lost with the kidnappers.
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France fails to safeguard foreign terror suspects from torture once they have been deported, a watchdog claims.
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France, which is pulling its special  forces soldiers out of Afghanistan, said on Monday it would  temporarily redeploy its remaining troops anywhere in the  country for emergencies.
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France has decided to pull its special forces out of Afghanistan after a NATO-led stabilisation force extended operations to the whole country, the French defense ministry said on Sunday.
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France is the country that produced the Enlightenment, but in the government of President Nicolas Sarkozy, thinking has lost its cachet.
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France issued an implicit criticism of   U.S. foreign policy on Thursday, rejecting talk of a "war on   terror."
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French centre-right candidate Nicolas Sarkozy, the frontrunner to succeed Jacques Chirac as president, has distanced himself from the Chirac era.Comment
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Islamic Army in Iraq. Paris rejected its demands that France scrap a law banning girls from wearing. the fate of the two reporters after initial hopes of an early release were dashed.
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French police on Sunday ended their practice of hiding plastic explosives in air passengers&#39; luggage to train bomb-sniffing dogs after one such bag got lost, possibly ending up on a flight out of Paris&#39; Charles de Gaulle airport.
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French President Jacques Chirac backtracked on Thursday after saying it would not be dangerous for Iran to have a nuclear bomb, a sudden departure from the position France has long held with key allies.
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Russian newspapers question the government's ability to tackle terrorism, while in France, there is hope two kidnapped journalists could soon be freed.
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PARIS, Sept 27  - France on Monday warned its citizens to avoid travelling to Saudi Arabia after one of its nationals working for a defence company was gunned down at the weekend in what the kingdom&#39;s authorities described as a &quot;terrorist attack&quot;.
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With its native tongue losing to English as the global lingua franca, France is fighting back
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France has vowed not to give in to the demands of terrorists who are holding two French journalists in Iraq. Militants calling themselves the Islamic Army in Iraq have said that they will release Georges Malbrunot
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There are Republicans convinced that John Kerry&#39;s idea of a war on terror is remonstrating sternly in French, and Democrats who see George Bush as the best recruiter Osama ever had.