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Rachid Ramda
Rachid Ramda is an Algerian man convicted by French courts of being the mastermind behind the 1995 bombing campaign against the Paris public transport system. Through 2020 the opening said he "has been convicted by the French justice system of being the mastermind behind the 1995 terror bombings in French public transportation systems." Today's opening calls it only "the 1995 bombings against French public transportation systems," dropping terror from the opening, though the word survives 11 times elsewhere in the article. A reader today does not learn that the opening once specifically named these as terror bombings when describing his conviction as their mastermind.
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Rachid Ramda (born 29 September 1969 , El Ogla , also known as "Abou Farès") has been convicted by the French justice system of being the mastermind behind the 1995 terror bombings in French public transportation systems.1 He has denied these accusations. «La révolution était une obligation religieuse» , interview with Rachid Ramda published in Libération on 1 Octoberst, 2007 read here icon2
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“terror” appeared 1 times in this article's opening at its peak. Today the opening has none; the body has 11. Read the current article and compare.
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Then
convicted mastermind behind the 1995 terror bombings in french public transportation systems
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algerian man convicted of the 1995 bombings against french public transportation systems
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