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Naive U.S. authorities, for some reason still under the bizarre impression that France is our ally, were surprised that the Islamic Republic of France warned their true allies, Al Qeada that their mutual enemy, the United States of America, was onto the joint FR/AQ terrorist plot.

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Perhaps the French authorities, who are the very definition of appeasement (look up "appeasement" in a dictionary and you'll probably find a picture of a beret-clad Frenchman), believed that if they were nice-nice to al Quaida, then the terrorists will leave them alone. In addition, maybe they were feeling ashamed about the whole scarf-banning incident, and wanted to make up...