French national among dead rebels in Iraq

A French citizen has been identified among radicals killed in fighting in Iraq - the first hard evidence that French Islamic radicals are participating in the insurgency against US occupation forces, it was reported today.

French intelligence first learned in July that a French citizen of Tunisian origin had been killed in the rebel-held city of Fallujah. Identified only as 19-year-old Redouane, he was killed in a July 17 bombardment.