[goldstategop]

The French are as f*ked up as Jean F. Cheri.

[oceanperch]

So it is good that nothing happened, but not good because the suspect did not show which means a possible future plan.

France sucks.

[endthematrix]

They may run but surely can not hide.

[Prime Choice]

Why is there any surprise at this? France has made it abundantly clear since late last year that they are not our ally any longer.

[endthematrix]

"Another senior U.S. official said it was too early to say whether a terror plot had been thwarted."

So they were going to do what? What's the point here?

[exnavy]

What a bunch of maroons.

[LibWhacker]

. . . terror suspects may have escaped due to a premature disclosure in France . . .

Break relations with those effete worms! Or at the very least you'd think we could routinely refuse flights from France -- whether or not we suspect there are terrorists onboard. Perhaps we could begin by forcing France to cancel at least half their flights to the US at random by telling them they wouldn't be allowed to land.

Al Qaeda may lose interest in using Air France if they know half their hijackers are unlikely to get through during any given "operation." Of course, two-thirds would be better than half, and 100% would be sure to work. But then, I don't know if we're prepared to go that far . . . In any event, the point is we don't need French cooperation at all to make al Qaeda give up on this plan of leveraging French perfidy against us.

[Viking2002]

Nuke France.

[Lancey Howard]

This makes me wonder if the whole thing was a setup by Homeland to smoke out French collaborators. I could have saved them time: FRANCE is a collaborator.

[Imal]

There is a lot more to this story than is being reported.

I'm hopeful we'll get a more complete picture of what is going on with this within the next few weeks, but I won't hold my breath.

[papertyger]

time to start emailing the french embassy again...

[SeeRushToldU_So]

[CaptSkip]

A half-dozen or so names on the US Terrorist Watch list show up on the SAME Air France flight?

This is a no-brainer!! That's a hijack TEAM!

Me thinks we should retarget some of our ICBM's to France. I don't know how many they've got, but I'll bet they're all aimed West. F*** the French.

[marty60]

Everything everyone is saying about France is true. My thoughts were with Bush, HE would have to give the order to shoot down a passenger plane/ God be with him.

[justa-hairyape]

told Reuters in Paris: "We have not detected passengers with the profile of people belonging to a radical Islamic group. ... All the checks so far have come to nothing."

Thats because not all terrorists in the world look like arab muslims or even have arab sounding names. Some might even have frenchy sounding last names and might even look frenchy-like. If an Air France plan steers off its assigned flight plan while over US territory, it should be shot down immediately.

If the French complain just tell them, "We have this Freedom. You cannot stop us".

[PJ-Comix]

Reading the history of the Vichy French, this doesn't surprise me. Both the Vichy French and the current day French (not much difference) are motivated by a centuries old hate of Britain (and by extension, America). During WWII they collaborated with the Germans because their insane hatred for the British overrode the fact that it was the Germans that conquered them. Amazingly the French are still pissed off by the fact that they lost a series of wars to the British centuries ago. Hey France! That was way back in the past! Get over it.

Top Frenchies were also collaborators with the Germans. This includes one of their past anti-American socialist presidents (Mitterand) who worked in the Vichy government and that darling of leftist intellectuals, Jean-Paul Sarter. How the left looks upon Sartre as some great philosopher, I don't know because he also collaborated with the Germans.

And now the French feel it is more "honorable" to collaborate with the Islamofacsists. Irrational anti-British and anti-American feelings overrides everything for the French.

And that idiot, John F-ing Kerry still thinks we should have sought French approval to take action on Iraq? What a moron!

[Diogenesis]

France is an enemy to FREE PEOPLE around the World.

========= IRAQI WEAPONS from France USED Against US and Coalition Heroes ========

French missiles were found by the Poles, and to protect France, blown up.

The pompous froggies said they did not say "2003". Decide for yourself.

[Caipirabob]

Ze "jig" - she is up! RUN mon ami! RUN!

[SandRat]

Leave it to the to screw it up! Sheesh!

[Criminal Number 18F]

A couple of points here.

1. While their original intent may have been to run an operation, no doubt they took advantage of this to profile our response, and they'll be examining same for weaknesses.

2. The French are now compromised by Islamists within the administrative organs of the government, but it's worth noting that in the 1970s and 1980s when American and other European interests were attacked in worldwide terrorist offensives, France was largely unscathed.

   The French determined early that negotiation was the better part of valour and cut this deal with Khadaffy (acting as spokesman for the terrorists), a deal that was later extended to Italy: known terrorists had free passage through and domicile in France, as long as they did not attack French persons or French interests. Under this compact Paris and Marseille became safe havens for wanted terrorists, who were observed by police and the SDECE but never molested in their planning and logistical operations.

You certainly have to wonder if this "early warning" to the Al-Qaida cells is a French attempt to extend the terms of its old partners-in-terrorism deal.

d.o.l.

Criminal Number 18F