June 12, 2003	Thursday	Rabi-us-Sani 11, 1424

PARIS, June 11: The French secret services have alleged that the perpetrator of the June 7 terrorist attack in Kabul against the ISAF forces that killed four German soldiers and wounded another 31 was a Chechen member of the Al Qaeda network.

According to French sources, who have been increasingly involved on the ground in Afghanistan in the tracking down of Al Qaeda, the head of the kamikaze was extracted almost intact from the ruins of the explosives-laden taxi he drove into the ISAF bus, and was identified as belonging to a Chechen national previously linked in their records to Al Qaeda.

“This provides convincing proof,” say the French sources, “that the attack was hardly a local affair, that Al Qaeda still remains operational in Afghanistan, especially in Kabul.”