NEW TERROR THREAT AGAINST FRANCE

Sky News ^ | 3/16/04

[areafiftyone]

France has received a new terror threat by an Islamist group and is taking it "very seriously", according to Reuters.

More follows...

Also From Reuters:

PARIS, March 16 (Reuters) - An Islamist group has threatened to stage attacks in France, a Justice Ministry spokeswoman told Reuters on Tuesday.

The warning spoke of possible attacks within France and against foreign interests, she said.

No further information was immediately available.

[areafiftyone]

Looks like Spain opened the door for Islamists to take over Europe. Congratulations Spain you just joined Al Qaeda. Looks like France is next!

[OXENinFLA]

Has France Surrendered yet?

[cajungirl]

I feel so ashamed of myself but this is giving me a major chuckle. I am a very bad person but I just can't help it.

[tiamat]

And the next sound we hear will be the riffling of bank-notes as the Froggies try to pay off the terrorists.

[finnman69]

I thought France was insulated from terror attacks because they were against the War in Iraq.

[mewzilla]

Uh oh! Guess the check didn't clear...

[mhking]

I hope they won't be too upset if we sit on the sidelines and watch....

(If it bugs 'em too much, we could send them a fruit basket...)

Just damn.

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[Sir Gawain]

Give 'em 3 or 4 minutes.

[steveo]

soccer blew!

[Oldeconomybuyer]

Related thread:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1098888/posts

[olde north church]

The world will mourn the loss of snooty waiters, unshaved women and l'acadamie francaise

[HELLRAISER II]

You know I don't wish harm on anyone, but if I did then France definately deserves the wake up call that it will surely be, if and when this happens. Then they won't be talking so much crap when it happens to them, they'll just be crying about us helping them and when they do I hope we hike up our middle finger and tell them to rotate on it.

[johniegrad]

Franco-Arabia here we come.

[Frank_Discussion]

I would normally laugh, as well, but I'm not finding it funny today. This is a case of Europe just flat not thinking a world war on the continent can happen again.

Nuts. As dumb as the Eurocrats can be, they don't deserve the slaughter that the Islamofascists wish to inflict on the world. This development is ominous.

[finnman69]

Meanwhile the French help China threaten Taiwan....

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1098448/posts

FRANCE IS JOINING WITH CHINA in an effort to intimidate Taiwan:

China and France will hold rare joint naval exercises off the mainland's eastern coast on Tuesday, just four days before Beijing's rival, Taiwan, holds presidential elections.

China's official Xinhua news agency made no link between the exercises off Qingdao -- about 780 miles from Taiwan's northernmost point -- and the election.

But the show of military strength and solidarity signaled China's desire to isolate the self-governing island before the vote and its first-ever referendum, which Beijing views as a provocative step toward independence.

Don McArthur observes: "Either the world is insane, the French are insane, or I've gone insane . . . the French are joining the Chinese Communists in an attempt to intimidate a Democracy?!?!"

There's apparently no limit to what the French are willing to do in order to feel important on the world stage. That's a form of insanity, I guess, though I suppose it's possible that these exercises were entered into without thought of the Taiwanese elections, at least on the part of the French.

Of course, it's unclear how intimidated the Taiwanese will be by the French navy. I wonder if the Charles De Gaulle will be there. . . . Heh.

posted at 09:09 PM by Glenn Reynolds

[areafiftyone]

I guess the Islamists are made because of the Head Scarf ban. Watch the wimpy French take the ban off.

[mewzilla]

Ominous? Darned straight. But what they really don't deserve is to have us save their bacon. Again. But we will. Grrrrr....

[SouthernFreebird]

Me too...my first thought was, Good!...they deserve to be bit by the dog they feed.

[finnman69]

http://www.strangecosmos.com/images/picturejokes/8936.jpg

My favorite photomontage of Bush reposndint to Chirac in this situation.

[LinuxRocks]

cajungirl - you shouldn't feel bad about laughing at surrender monkeys.