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Terror link to 2 aboard crash jet
Names of two passengers on doomed Air France jet linked to Islamic terror groups- Two men with names linked to Islamic terrorism were aboard the Air France jet which crashed with the loss of 228 lives, it has been revealed.
Both were in their 20s and of unspecified nationality. Their bodies have not yet been found, making proper identification impossible.
The French secret service is treating the discovery as 'highly significant'.
Agents established the connection while working through the list of those who boarded the Airbus in Rio de Janeiro on May 31.
Flight AF447 crashed into the Atlantic on its way to Paris during a violent storm.
While it is certain there were computer malfunctions, and that these were the most likely reason for the accident, terrorism has not been ruled out.
Soon after the crash, agents working for the Direction Generale de la Securite Exterieure, the French equivalent of MI6, were dispatched to Brazil.
It was there that they discovered that two names on the passenger list are also on highly classified documents listing the names of radical Muslims considered a threat to France.
There were 32 nationalities on the Air France flight, including Moroccans and Lebanese.
The suspicious names are linked to radical Islamic groups including Al Qaeda.
A source working for the French security services said the link could have great significance.
There is a possibility that the name similarities are simply a 'macabre coincidence', the source added, but the revelation is still being taken very seriously.
Agents are trying to establish dates of birth for the two dead passengers, as well as their family connections.
The full list of passengers has not been released by Air France despite it being more than week since the plane crashed.
Such lists are normally released within 72 hours.
France has received numerous threats from Islamic terrorist groups in recent months, especially since French troops were sent to fight in Afghanistan.
Security chiefs have been particularly worried about airborne attacks similar to 9/11. French investigators confirmed that terrorism has not been ruled out.
But an Air France spokesman added that 'all the indications' are that the Airbus suffered a catastrophic equipment failure.
Two radical Muslims identified on crashed Air France flight- The day after DEBKAfile's counter-terror sources' revelation of Tuesday, June 9, that French security was going through the doomed Air France flight's passenger list for suspected terror links, the Paris weekly L'Express reported a link had been found.
French security DGSE (Direction Générale de la Sécurité Extérieure) agents dispatched to Brazil identified two names on the passenger list which also appear also on highly-classified documents listing radical Muslims considered a threat to France. This link to the air tragedy was described as "highly significant."
The French agents also examined the security measures employed at Rio de Janeiro international port from which Air France A300 took off May 31 with 228 passengers and crew, never to arrive at its destination at Charles de Gaulle, Paris.
DEBKAfile's counter-terror sources report that in the last few months Paris has received several threats of an impending al Qaeda mega-attack against a French city on the lines of the hijacked airliners which struck New York and Washington on September 11, 2001. The jihadis were bent on punishing president Nicolas Sarkozy for posting fresh French troops to Afghanistan.
Should further investigations connect the two Muslim passengers to this conspiracy, it would go far to indicate that the Air France flight was destined to crash over Paris - except that the plan misfired and the plane came down sooner than planned over the Atlantic.
According to our sources, the French flight crews warned of the plot might have succeeded into pre-empting it by an extraordinary act of bravery to crash the plane in the ocean before it reached France.
Alternatively, the two purported terrorists may have been on a suicide operation like the Egyptian Airline pilot who brought his Boeing 767 into the Atlantic off the US coast on March 31, 1999.
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