It is quite likely that France, with its large Muslim population, has had al Qaeda infiltrate the government.
The French people do not take security as seriously as they should. That is why Richard Reid, the shoe bomber, was removed from a flight at Orly, questioned, and then WITH APOLOGIES PUT ON ANOTHER AIR FRANCE FLIGHT WITH EXPLOSIVES IN HIS SHOE!!!!
Are you denying the possibility that perhaps a certain level of French incompetence or petulance could have horrible but unintended consequences...
Have you provided a logical explanation of why the French alerted potential terrorists by ANNOUNCEING U.S. suspicions of a plot involving specific Air France flights....
In my opinion, the French and French defenders should complain less about predictable American insults and put far more effort and action into an attempt to convince us that the French are RELIABLE AND TRUSTWORTHY allies -- and NOT aligned with anything or anyone that means us harm...
The French have become somewhat like the Democrat party.. Their only chance at power or status - is dependent on the U.S. being enmeshed in turmoil...
The French blew it big time...
It will be decades before they are allowed out of the penalty box...
Semper Fi
Would very publicly cancelling flights for security reasons up to 2 days before departure prevent terrorists from showing up for the flight? I would say so. That means that french action prevented any possible apprehensions, at the very least from the later flights, if not the earlier. Sedning agents onto a plane whose flight was publicly cancelled two days earlier is not how to catch terrorists. Even your beloved france would know this. Those are not the actions of an ally.