AL QAEDA TARGETS CANNES

National Enquirer ^ | April 9, 2003 | National Enquirer

[Arkinsaw]

I mean, terrorism is a bad thing, but I can't imagine many targets I would get choked up about less.

[Monkey King]

Kinda mixed feelings on this one. I guess the responsible way to think about it is that I hope the Frenchies DON'T reap the whirlwind, but I feel before the decade is out they're gonna get hit hard. Quite hard.

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[Taxbilly]

Sounds like UBL is trying to get on our good side.

[MtnScout]

This would mean absolute chaos.......

Like - who would be around to do the made-for-TV movie.....?

[doug from upland]

Why would al Qaeda be so foolish as to turn on its best friends?

[Ciexyz]

What a tragedy if Penelope Cruz' movie "Fan Fan LaTulipe" has its premiere delayed by terrorism. (/sarcasm)

[RWG]

Let Micheal Moore show his true colors once again at an award ceremony.

[ItsJeff]

I can't imagine many targets I would get choked up about less.

In Katharine Graham's autobiography, she tells a story about LBJ during the Washington, D.C. riots. She was in the command center with him. A report came in that Stokely Carmichael just announced he was going to burn down Georgetown.

Johnson said, "G-d damn, I've waited 30 years to hear that!"

[linton59]

Agreed. If only this were a real possibility. It has to be a joke. Reminds me of 9-11 when the U.N. Building was evacuated and my first thought was, "Why>"

[mylife]

France is by no means..immune..Osamma hates the culture that is represented by the film industy in the west.
Jaquass ChIRAQ had better pay attention to this.

[ApesForEvolution]

He he

[xp38]

Maybe they're mad because they can't get tickets. For those who don't know Cannes is an industry only affair. No public tickets are sold.

[okie01]

"I hope the Frenchies DON'T reap the whirlwind, but I feel before the decade is out they're gonna get hit hard."

I've been wracking my brain trying to recall a terrorist attack in France since, well, the days of the FLN.

While the rest of Europe (and, now, America) has been an active theater for Middle East terrorists, it is as if France was some kind of "safe house"...

[SBprone]

It's not foolish, it's deliberate. And it's absolutely true to form where Islamic terrorists are concerned.

By directing terror at those sympathetic to your cause you force them away from the middle ground and make them take sides with or against you. The goal is to precipitate a fight to the death that your own followers cannot escape. Polarization, in other words. Terrorists are in the polarization business. When their terrorism triggers a violent response they see this as the reward for their hard work.

It's a nutty approach to conflict, but this is how they think.

[lilylangtree]

Cannes? Well, if OBL and his al-Queda want to take out some of those leftist liberals, no peep from my direction. However, that's pretty far-fetched thinking since the leftists Hollyweirdos want OBL and Saddam Hussein to stay in power. What the bottom line in this story is that the Hollyweirdos want the general public to feel sorry for them, and I just can't muster up any sympathy. They've got more money than they know what to do--hire extra bodyguards.

[AmishDude]

Wasn't a French ship hit about a year ago?

[11B3]

There's always the possibility that Bin Laden is targeting the film festival because they might show Osama's LAST video. (The quote at the end is GREAT!)

[Swampmarine]

Sounds like the French may have a real problem. If they screw this up, watch for the Hollywood lawyers to finish them off.