May 12, 2003	Monday	Rabi-ul-Awwal 9, 1424

PARIS, May 11: Jean-Louis Bruguiere, France’s leading anti-terrorist magistrate, says that he plans shortly to go to Pakistan to continue the investigation he’s been undertaking on his own of the May 8, 2002, terrorist attack, against employees of the Direction de la Construction Navale (DCN), who were building an Agusta 90-B submarine at Karachi naval shipyard.

Bruguiere, who was meeting the other day with more than 40 members of the families of the 11 DCN technicians who were killed in Karachi, implied, according to one of the participants, Laurent Leveziel, a DCN technician who was injured in the blast, that he was intending on seeking the extradition of accused participants in the attack, to be able to try them on French soil.

Judge Bruguiere says he believes that the true authors of the attack have not yet been caught, and that those who are presently standing trial, are simply “lampistes,” to use his expression, underlings who are being made to take the blame for higher-ups.

DCN FIRM TO RETURN TO KARACHI: Meanwhile, authorities of the DCN announced that a group of technicians would soon be also returning to Karachi, to continue work on the three-submarine Agusta-90B contract and that among them would figure at least one technician, Gilles Samson, who was one of the DCN employees who was injured during the May 8, 2002, attack.