Intelligence agents arrested a 21-year-old woman at her apartment in the Belleville district of Paris on suspicion of links to al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula. She is said to be a reader of AQAP’s magazine Inspire. The arrest is the first stemming from an investigation that began in March into a suspected terrorist plot. Yesterday eight members of a militant Islamist group received sentences ranging from eight years to 18 months for recruiting French fighters for al Qaeda training camps in Afghanistan and Pakistan and plotting terror attacks. One of the suspects, who remains at large, was sentenced in absentia.
