[Earthdweller]

Are you saying there are demands upon the French; I have watched French TV often but have never heard of any if there are. Perhaps the demands haven't been disclosed.

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Oh boy..where to start,
1) oil for food scandal with Sadam
2) kick backs from Arafat
3) 6 million Muslims in France
4) siding with muslims in the ivory coast
This is evidence enough that they are in bed with the extremists and that's just what we know of recently. Hence..if you get in bed with an islamic extremist you WILL have pressure..mob style.

[matchwood]

I understand the French are in bed with the Islamos but what exactly are the hostage takers demands of the French?

[Dr. Musto]

This seems to prove that the French have deep ties with Islam and other Islamic nations. This is in no way an indication that France is as a whole "with the terrorists". We should be very clear on that.

It is the same on the flip side, I am offended when foreign exchange students I know ask me why I like Bush and wanted to invade Iraq. I didn't vote for him, like half the rest of the country, and I didn't want to send family members into a third world sand trap so they could fight people who weren't even terrorists. "Militants" are not terrorists.