Paris
Six Islamic extremists, accused of plotting to blow up the U.S. Embassy in France in 2001, went on trial in Paris this week. The ringleader of the group, a dual French-Algerian national named Djamel Beghal, was arrested in Dubai three years ago and reportedly confessed to the plot, saying that he was acting for al Qaida. He said the suicide bomber was to have been Nizar Trabelsi, a professional soccer player in Germany who is now serving time in a Belgian jail for his involvement in a different al Qaida bomb plot. But now Beghal says that his confession was the result of torture. He and the others are pleading not guilty.
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