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Source: http://www.guardian.co.uk/france/story/0,11882,1094990,00.html
France Has Arrested 120 Terror Suspects Since 9/11
(Guardian-UK) Jon Henley - The head of France's DST intelligence agency, Pierre de Bousquet de Florian, said Thursday that 120 suspects had been arrested in France since the September 11 attacks, and that half of them had been convicted of membership in a terrorist organization. According to l'Express, French Islamist militants, who later spent time in al-Qaeda military camps in Pakistan and Afghanistan, underwent their first group training exercises in the forest of Fontainebleau and also in the Alps near Annecy. During the training exercises in France, which took place from 1996 to 1999, groups of militants would march long distances, mount staged manhunts, and practice unarmed combat.