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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 9955

5 August 2009
THE DAY IN POLITICS / (eu) eu/terrorism
Al-Qaida threatens France

Brussels, 04/08/2009 (Agence Europe) - Al-Qaida second-in-command Ayman al-Zawahiri has launched a fierce attack on France over its stance against the wearing of the Islamic veil, saying that it “will pay for all its crimes”. In a video recording released on Monday 3 August by SITE, the US Islamist site monitoring centre, al-Zawahiri responds to a question on the position of French President Nicolas Sarkozy towards the wearing of the burqa, which the French President says “is not...