Authorities in France arrested a physicist who was working with the Large Hadron Collider project at CERN on Thursday October 8, 2009. The physicist, age 32, was arrested for allegedly having ties to the al-Qaeda's Islamic Maghreb group in Algeria.http://www.google.com/hostednews/ukpress/article/ALeqM5ghxwhelvbFkreoGxX1vBzoy31jbAhttp://news.bnonews.com/vk8d
CERN said the physicist worked at an outside facility and he was "not in contact with anything that could be used for terrorism."http://news.bnonews.com/vk8d
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Physicist who worked the Large Hadron Collider laboratory was arrested
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CERN stated that the man did not have contact with "anything that could be used for terrorism"
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The suspect was arrested with his brother
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The two men are believed to have ties to al-Qaeda North African wing Islamic Maghreb
