Paris has warned Washington it could review its cooperation...

Paris has warned Washington it could review its cooperation with the September 11 probe if the United States sought the death penalty against a French national charged with aiding the people behind the attacks, French rights groups said.
They said Justice Minister Marylise Lebranchu told them in a letter that she had instructed her officials to contact the U.S. Justice Department to voice concern that information gleaned in France could put Zacarias Moussaoui on death row.
The 33-year-old is charged with conspiring with Saudi-born militant Osama bin Laden and his al Qaeda network in connection with the hijacked airliner attacks in New York and Washington, which left more than 3,000 people dead in September 2001.
After reaching an agreement with the French government, U.S. prosecutor Robert Spencer attempted to interview Moussaoui's relatives in France.
"France will take steps to alter the agreement stipulating that any information transmitted to the U.S. judicial authorities... cannot be used by prosecutors pressing for a death penalty," rights groups, including Amnesty International, quoted Lebranchu's March 15 letter as saying.
Rights groups say Spencer, who questioned Moussaoui's brother, would use the information to argue the suspect should be put to death.
Moussaoui's brother refused to answer Spencer's questions while his mother failed to turn up for an interview. Four of the six charges for which a not guilty plea has been entered on Moussaoui's behalf carry a possible death penalty.
Lebranchu has already said France, which scrapped capital punishment in 1981, would not accept the death penalty for Moussaoui.