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22:22 UK French police probe helicopter plot The Paris skyline
Police are looking into a possible air attack on Paris By the
BBC's Malcolm Brabant  French police are trying to determine
whether supporters of Osama Bin Laden planned to launch a
suicide mission against the American Embassy in Paris by turning
a helicopter into a flying bomb.  Seven people arrested on
suspicion of plotting to attack American interests in France
have been remanded in custody in Paris for the duration of the
investigation.  Elsewhere, anti-terrorist squad detectives are
continuing to question three men detained in Leicester in
Central England on Tuesday.  And Spanish police have arrested
six alleged members of an Algerian extremist group which is
believed to have had links with Bin Laden.  F