Page "Alliance Base" Paragraph 4

In the days following the attacks, President Jacques Chirac issued an edict to French secret services ordering them to share information with US counterparts " as if they were your own service ," according to two officials who read it and were cited by Dana Priest.

According to the Washington Post investigative reporter, the arrest of Christian Ganczarski, alleged to be an important Al Qaeda responsible, was one of the 12 major operations it has engaged in during its first years.

Since the end of 2001, France has detained about 60 suspects, some with the help of the CIA, according to a CIA veteran cited by Priest.