In Autumn of 2006 two Belgians, nine Frenchmen and one American were arrested in Egypt, the news referred that they were part of a CIA-French Intelligence led terror group which had been infiltrated by the Egyptian authorities, and that they had been trying to recruit "foreign fighters" to travel to Afghanistan and to Iraq to make attacks, respectively, on French and U.S. servicemen.
The nine Frenchmen were released on the condition that when they returned to Paris they would be prosecuted.
According to the news sources France did not abide by the agreement.