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Police arrested two French girls, aged 15 and 17, in Tarbes and Lyon who were preparing to travel to Syria for jihad; they had reportedly met through social networking. Some 900 people from France are said to have been implicated in jihad. Iraqi Christian refugees from the Islamic State's persecution in Irbil began arriving in France; Foreign Minister Fabius said their numbers might rise to "several thousand" in France.