Reports: Eiffel Tower bomb threat was false alarm

AP/Yahoo! ^ | 9/14/10 | ANGELA DOLAND

[rightistight]

PARIS – Paris' Eiffel Tower and its immediate surroundings were evacuated Tuesday evening after an anonymous caller phoned in a bomb threat, but a police search turned up nothing suspicious, French media reported.

Officials evacuated about 2,000 people and combed through the 324-meter (1,063-foot) tower, a Paris police spokesman said. By midnight, people were walking around and riding bikes underneath France's most popular tourist spot again. The tower itself, which had 6.6 million visitors last year, usually closes at 11 p.m.

Media reported that the scare was a false alarm. Paris police did not immediately return calls seeking information.

[rightistight]

thank God

[ml/nj]

Well, DUH. It's still there, isn't it?

ML/NJ

[livius]

It wasn’t a “false alarm.” It was a threat meant to disrupt, no doubt called in by a Muslim who couldn’t get his bomb supplies in order quickly enough to make public his Muslim rage about the French banning of the burqa.

[Steve Van Doorn]

no no it had nothing to do with the burqa according to this CNN talking head it is more likely that the implication that Sarkozy might be going postal over the RUMORED bad marriage?!?
at 2:50 he implies this:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JGXeu-47glc