31.   He became a French citizen, was active in the Resistance, and was made an officer in the French Legion of Honor.

32.   He began the offensive after Islamic extremists killed five French citizens in Algeria.

33.   He became a French citizen two years ago.

34.   He is the highest-ranking French collaborator to go on trial and only the second French citizen to be tried on those grounds since World War II.

35.   He became a French citizen and married a Frenchwoman, the writer Francoise Xenakis, who had been decorated for saving the lives of resistance fighters during the war.

36.   He said that the easy access for Moussaoui, a French citizen, and Reid, who had a British passport, were warnings.

37.   He met his wife, Josie Dumont, a French citizen, in Belgium shortly after the Battle of the Bulge.

38.   Immigration lawyers said they could recall no other instance of a French citizen receiving asylum in the United States.

39.   In France, the Foreign Ministry confirmed that it would object to the death sentence in the Moussaoui case as it does in all cases concerning French citizens.