French arrest six 'linked' to shoebomber

French police today arrested six suspected Islamic militants linked to Briton Richard Reid’s failed plot to blow up a transatlantic flight last year with a shoe bomb.

French police today arrested six suspected Islamic militants linked to Briton Richard Reid’s failed plot to blow up a transatlantic flight last year with a shoe bomb.

The suspects, Algerians and Pakistanis, were picked up in the Paris suburbs.

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