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No alqaida link to airfrance passenger Original Source Link: (May no longer be active)    http://abcnews.go.com/wire/World/ap20040108_1227.html http://abcnews.go.com/wire/World/ap20040108_1227.html France: No Link to Passenger, al-Qaida French Investigators Find No Proof That Missing Air France Passenger May Be al-Qaida Sympathizer The Associated Press PARIS Jan. 8 — French investigators have found no evidence that a passenger who did not show up for a trans-Atlantic flight might be an Afghan-trained al-Qaida sympathizer armed with a bomb, police said Thursday. ABC News reported this week that European authorities were searching for a man with alleged al-Qaida links who failed to board a Paris-to-Los Angeles flight on Christmas Eve one of six Air France flights canceled amid security fears. ABC reported that the passenger had a French passport, was believed to have undergone training in Afghanistan and was feared to have a small bomb that might evade airport security. But French police, distancing themselves from earlier comments by France's justice minister who said a no-show passenger is being sought, said they had no reason to believe that an al-Qaida bomber is on the loose. "French intelligence services in constant touch with American partners conducted additional investigations that produced no new indications that could confirm the theory put forward by American media," said a police spokeswoman, who declined to be named. "The investigations turned up nothing to show that there was somebody with al-Qaida links carrying a bomb," she added. "There is nothing, nothing, nothing at this time that suggests something is amiss." Secretary of State Colin Powell, asked Wednesday if there was a single potential terrorist at large who is a source of grave concern, also said he was "not aware of any one particular individual who is loose." In response to U.S. concerns, France reinforced its airline security, accepted airport inspections by U.S. agents, canceled the Christmas flights, and announced its readiness to post armed marshals aboard flights deemed at possible risk. The Christmas cancelations followed U.S. tip-offs that al-Qaida operatives would try to board planes, French officials have said. A ticketed passenger surnamed Hai on a canceled Christmas Eve flight attracted attention because an Afghan with a similar name figures on a U.S. terror watch list, French officials said. But a senior French police official said that surname alone was not sufficient for them to track the person down and that there was no indication the passenger posed a threat. "We have no new information from American (intelligence) services that lends credibility to the idea that this person represented a specific threat to the Dec. 24 flight," he said. French Justice Minister Dominique Perben had said Wednesday that authorities were seeking a passenger who did not turn up because "what's important when someone doesn't take a plane is to know why he didn't take it." But police said no active search is under way. "We have just a name, no first name, no birth date, no passport number," said the senior police official. "We can't do serious work on such foundations."

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