At least one of the suspects in France had been in contact with Begal, and others had been under police surveillance since his arrest in July, the sources said.

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The arrests last Friday were made after a man identified as Djamel Begal, being held in the United Arab Emirates, was alleged to have confessed to planning an attack on the U.S. Embassy in France and gave names and addresses of extremists living in Paris, police sources said.

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