SHADOWY GROUP THREATENS TO BOMB FRENCH RAILWAY
March 3 — By Gerard Bon
PARIS (Reuters) - A shadowy group is threatening to blow up France's SNCF state railway if it is not paid about $5 million, officials said Wednesday. It has already directed police to a sophisticated time bomb under tracks near Limoges, in southwestern France on the line between Paris and Toulouse, to prove its technical prowess, they said.
The group, which calls itself AZF after a chemical factory in southwestern France that exploded in 2001, claims to have hidden 10 other bombs around the network, officials said.
http://abcnews.go.com/wire/World/reuters20040303_200.html
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What a convoluted story. (scratching my head!)
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It has already directed police to a sophisticated time bomb under tracks near Limoges, in southwestern France on the line between Paris and Toulouse, to prove its technical prowess, they said. Ok...I'm not even going to comment on this. I do have butterflies in my stomach now. And they are not from CoCo.
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