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US in row with France over terror operation
The Telegraph ^ | 12/25/03 | Telegraph

Posted on 12/25/2003 7:28:07 PM PST by Mark Felton

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To: Mark Felton; bootless; JETDRVR
Are all private pilots suspects now?
101 posted on 12/26/2003 4:28:14 PM PST by snopercod (War is, at first, like a young girl with whom every man desires to flirt.)
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John Kerry mentioned a few weeks ago that he was speaking to Chirac on his own accord. I wonder what the conversation was about?
102 posted on 12/26/2003 4:38:39 PM PST by At _War_With_Liberals
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To: Mark Felton
"The official added that the Tunisian had no criminal record and did not belong to any Islamic radical groups."

And What... do they think that all terrorists have traceable histories and proclaimed allegiances... idiot fools the french.
104 posted on 12/26/2003 5:27:46 PM PST by Godfollow
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To: LibFreeUSA
#7- who is that? is there a real pic? looks like some things were spliced...
105 posted on 12/26/2003 5:47:35 PM PST by GeronL (The Revolution should be televised! Imagine the ratings!)
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To: NeonKnight
The frogs have already picked their side, but they are too cowardly and treacherous to show it.
106 posted on 12/26/2003 7:10:32 PM PST by desertcry
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To: RoughDobermann
Nuclear tipped?
107 posted on 12/26/2003 7:12:14 PM PST by desertcry
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To: NYC GOP Chick
You made my evening, hahahah!
108 posted on 12/26/2003 7:13:44 PM PST by desertcry
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To: desertcry
I'm here to amuse. :)
109 posted on 12/26/2003 7:14:28 PM PST by NYC GOP Chick (Kaddafi is such a whack job that he never promoted himself past Colonel!)
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To: Mark Felton
...in the security operation that grounded six Air France flights in and out of Los Angeles.

The headline could read...

One Thousand Democrats Stranded In Paris

110 posted on 12/26/2003 8:28:31 PM PST by Barnacle (Dickens knew humanity and Divinity. He knew the rift between them and the paths that join them)
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To: runningbare
"I' will tell you that even I am doubious on this one and it is beginning to put off an odar. The "wolfe cry"analogy is sticking with many friends and family members. The whole "elevated alert" deal is bothering me real bad. Every 4th of july and Christx we get this elevated alert. They are just guessing. I heard that the "chatter was as high as 911" WHAT???? where were they on 911. Is that why Condaliza Rice doesn't want to be sworn?"

Welcome to Free Republic - WHAT TIME did you join FR today?
111 posted on 12/26/2003 8:34:00 PM PST by Chu Gary (USN Intel guy 1967 - 1970)
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To: Mark Felton
It is now time to ban all planes from France from landing in the US.

It is also time to ban all French imports.

112 posted on 12/26/2003 9:36:26 PM PST by Freedom of Speech Wins
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To: recalcitrant
Had seen I believe in an article or two that some of the terrorist organizations had accounts at Deutsche Bank, which were later frozen.

But France and Germany behind the attacks?

113 posted on 12/26/2003 9:47:21 PM PST by Freedom of Speech Wins
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To: recalcitrant
It will be a short "hot war" with France..

I agree... After all, how long does it take to raise a white flag?

114 posted on 12/26/2003 10:14:04 PM PST by CommandoFrank (Peer into the depths of hell and there is the face of Islam!)
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To: Doc On The Bay
Sigh! & I would LIKE to have seen the Eiffel Tower!!

I'd like to see the Eiffel Tower handed to them.

115 posted on 12/27/2003 7:37:39 AM PST by rickmichaels
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To: Freedom of Speech Wins
according to the European Minister who allegedly knows and is investigating it. France and Germany are eyeball deep in it.
yup.
and based on the way the frenchies have acted... I would have to say thats a hellyeah...
pardon my french.
116 posted on 12/27/2003 7:03:42 PM PST by recalcitrant
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To: Freedom of Speech Wins; anotherview
again for your edification on this thread...
from freerepublic earlier this week... http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1045687/posts

Posted on 12/23/2003 2:20:52 PM PST by anotherview

EU Parliament Member: Intifada is European Proxy War Against America
21:22 Dec 23, '03 / 28 Kislev 5764

EU Member of Parliament Ilka Schroeder delivered an address entitled, “The European Union, Israel, and Palestinian Terrorism” at the Center for German Studies of Ben Gurion University on Monday.

“The Europeans,” explained MP Schroeder, “supported the Palestinian Authority with the aim of becoming its main sponsor, and through this challenge the U.S. and present themselves as the future global power. Therefore, the Al-Aksa Intifada should be understood as a proxy war between Europe and the United States.”

"It is an open secret within the European Parliament that EU aid to the Palestinian Authority has not been spent correctly," MP Schroeder said during a recent address in New York. “The European Parliament does not intend to verify whether European taxpayers' money could have been used to finance anti-Semitic murderous attacks. Unfortunately, this fits well with European policy in this area."

MP Schroeder, a twenty five year old member of the German Green Party, began her political career protesting the war in Kosovo and denouncing globalization. A year ago MP Schroeder set her sights on an issue long avoided by members of the radical Left - the diverting of some of the 250 million in annual aid for the Arabs of Yesha (Judea, Samaria and Gaza) to corrupt officials and terrorist groups bent on Israel's destruction.

MP Schroeder managed to initiate an inquiry by the European Anti-Fraud Office (OLAF) into the issue despite significant pressure from her colleagues and fellow parliamentarians to ignore the issue. MP Schroeder has derided her colleagues who wish to ignore the issue of EU money funding terrorism against Jews as "simple-minded anti-Semites." She has also accused EU External Relations Commissioner Chris Patten of "winking approval of terrorist attacks funded by the EU."

In her Ben Gurion University address, MP Schroeder claimed the issue of the EU funding terrorist groups points to a broader European goal, namely, to use the Middle East conflict to challenge US hegemony.

"The primary goal of the EU is the internationalization of the conflict in order to underline the need for its own mediating role," she argues, warning that renewed European calls for a multinational force in the region - heard most recently by the head of the largest political bloc in the parliament - combined with heightened levels of anti-Semitism in Europe and the Arab world, could spell disaster for Jews everywhere. "The Palestinians are playing the ugly role of being the cannon fodder for Europe's hidden war against the U.S.," she adds.

While MP Schroeder's call for accountability in EU funding was supported by nearly one quarter of the 626-member parliament, she appears grimly convinced that her efforts to expose anti-Zionism, which she sees as Europe's polite version of anti-Semitism, has come to naught. MP Schroeder has been embraced by many Jewish groups in Europe and the U.S. and decided to visit Israel for her first time in order to further research the E.U.’s role in the region.

"There is no difference in the consciousness of an average member of the European Parliament and an average German peace demonstrator, and I consider this to be a mixture of naivete, moralism, anti-Americanism, anti-Semitism, and anti-Zionism and an altogether serious danger," she said during her U.S. speaking tour. "It is against these trends that my efforts are directed."

Published: 19:49 December 23, 2003 Last Update: 21:22 December 23, 2003


117 posted on 12/27/2003 7:06:26 PM PST by recalcitrant
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To: Mark Felton
The (French) official added that the Tunisian had no criminal record and did not belong to any Islamic radical groups.

Rats. We should have consulted the official Al Qaeda membership roster, then we'd know he "did not belong to any Islamic radical groups." The French are just so much smarter than us.

118 posted on 12/27/2003 8:06:58 PM PST by Uncle Miltie (Leave Pat Leave!)
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To: ladyjane
It would be interesting to place Chirac and Saddam in the same buggedinterogation room and leave them alone for a couple of hours.

I imagine we would glean a treasure trove of treachery on the part of the French from the taped conversations.

Now, if Bush would only make it happen.....

119 posted on 12/29/2003 7:18:26 PM PST by HardStarboard (Dump Wesley Clark.....he worries me as much as Hillary!)
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Just a test
120 posted on 01/09/2004 6:19:30 AM PST by NeonKnight
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