French courts drop terror allegations against Ottawa prof Hassan Diab

Former Ottawa university professor Hassan Diab was released from a Paris maximum security prison Friday after two investigating judges dismissed terrorism allegations against him and effectively closed the case.
The academic is now a free man for the first time in almost a decade.
Diab, a Lebanon-born Canadian citizen, has spent more than three years in pre-trial detention awaiting the decision. He was the sole suspect in the October 1980 terrorist bombing of a Paris synagogue in which four pass