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France creates new unit to deal with terror attacks
AFP
Sunday, January 17, 2010
PARIS, France (AFP) -- France yesterday created a specialised unit to deal with the threat of nuclear, biological or chemical (NBC) terror attacks.
The unit "specialised in the fight against terrorist threats of a nuclear, radiological, biological or chemical nature", according to a prime ministerial decree, will come under the authority of the interior ministry.
Co-ordinating the work of other similar units within the French police forces, it will intervene "whenever a device might release nuclear energy or contain NBC material or agents dangerous to people, goods or the environment".
The new unit's chief will be named shortly, the decree said.
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