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French Police Race to Piece Together Background of Nice Attacker

French police are racing to piece together the criminal background and Islamic fundamentalist ties of the 31-year-old French-Tunisian who carried out Thursday’s Bastille Day attack in Nice that killed 84 and has left another 50 people fighting for their lives. Mohamed Lahouaiej Bouhlel's petty criminal profile is similar to the unruly backgrounds of the assailants who carried out the 2015 Charlie Hebdo shootings and the Paris attacks last November. All of them were members...

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