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Euphorian spotted this on the Guardian Unlimited site and thought you should see it.

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Eight held for suicide attack on synagogue
Jon Henley in Paris
Wednesday November 06 2002
The Guardian


French intelligence agents have arrested eight people in connection with the suicide 
attack earlier this year on a synagogue in Tunisia that killed 21 people, the interior 
ministry said yesterday.

The suspects were detained in the Lyon area by agents from the DST 
counter-intelligence service acting on instructions from France's leading 
anti-terrorist judge, Jean-Louis Bruguière, the ministry said in a statement.

Judicial sources identified one of the eight as Walid Naouar, the brother of the man 
believed to have been driving the lorry when it exploded outside the 2,000- year-old 
El Ghriba synagogue on the Tunisian holiday island of Djerba on April 11.

Responsibility for the attack was claimed by the Islamic Army for the Liberation of 
the Holy Sites, a group believed to have close ties with Osama bin Laden's al-Qaida 
network. The same group took credit for the 1998 bombings of US embassies in Kenya and 
Tanzania.

Fourteen Germans, five Tunisians and a French man were killed when the tanker lorry, 
containing cooking gas, blew up near the synagogue. The supposed driver, Nizar Naouar, 
a 24-year-old Tunisian, was also reported to have died in the explosion.

Naouar's parents, brother-in-law and two family friends were among the suspects 
arrested at Saint-Pirest and Vénissieux near Lyon, the city's prosecutor, 
Christian Hassensrat, said. All eight can be held for up to four days without being 
charged.

In Tunisia, Naouar's uncle, Belgacem Naouar, was also arrested and is likely to face 
charges of concealing information about preparations for the bombing.

Judge Bruguière's investigation into Naouar's relatives and friends in France was 
launched after a formal complaint for "assassination and attempted assassination in 
relation to a terrorist organisation" filed by the son of Paul Sauvage, 75, who was 
the synagogue attack's only French victim.

Copyright Guardian Newspapers Limited

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