Airport Workers Stripped of Security Passes

Baggage handlers at Paris's Charles de Gaulle airport have been stripped of security passes because of suspected terror links.

Jacques Lebrot, who oversees the airport, told Agence France Presse that 72 workers had been denied access to sensitive areas because of ties to "potentially terrorist spheres of influence". He said most were linked to radical circles and one had been in contact with someone who had been in contact with the shoe-bomber Richard Reid.

Earlier Mr Lebrot said handlers had lost their clearance because they had travelled to Pakistan or Afghanistan.