The French Interior Ministry announced Monday it had deported two Muslims and plans to expel three more.

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Last month, Spain's Interior Ministry said French and Spanish police arrested three suspected Islamic extremists in an operation in and around Paris.

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And it is interesting to speculate on what might have happened to his reputation if he had been given the interior ministry that he so coveted, and thus been responsible for the French police during the Algerian war or the events of 1968.

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Mr Duelfer's report gives a long list of those believed to have received vouchers, including the Russian president's office and foreign ministry, Indonesia's outgoing president, Megawati Sukarnoputri, and Charles Pasqua, a former French interior minister.

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