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France raises terror alert level
new.com.au ^ | 7th July 2005

Posted on 07/07/2005 4:15:13 AM PDT by naturalman1975

FRANCE today raised its anti-terror alert to red, the second-highest rating, after a series of explosions rocked London, Prime Minister Dominique de Villepin announced. The alert level was changed immediately to red, moving up one notch on a four-level scale, the prime minister said.

Scarlet is the highest warning level.

Mr Villepin expressed his "deepest solidarity'' with the British people after the explosions.


TOPICS: News/Current Events; United Kingdom; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: france; london

1 posted on 07/07/2005 4:15:13 AM PDT by naturalman1975
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To: naturalman1975

Given Chirac's closeness to other islamic entities, it's hard not to make the connection to the loss of the Olympics (risking Chirac's job and thus his immunity from criminal prosecution). But it's likely not true.

The upside is that no matter how you look at it, Villepin still is a fop.


2 posted on 07/07/2005 4:22:57 AM PDT by saveliberty (Liberal= in need of therapy, but would rather ruin lives of those less fortunate to feel good)
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To: naturalman1975

Ah hell, just give up already, you frogs.


3 posted on 07/07/2005 4:23:33 AM PDT by rintense
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To: naturalman1975

Who got to hoist the white flag?


4 posted on 07/07/2005 4:27:31 AM PDT by conservativecorner
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To: saveliberty

Yeah, he is, but the French don't deserve terror attacks anymore than Brits, or American or the Spainish.

France is a beautiful country overrun with horrid nasty Islamofascists who would crap in the Louvre and smear feces over the paintings and the French are in trouble.


5 posted on 07/07/2005 4:30:29 AM PDT by OpusatFR (Try permaculture and get back to the Founders intent. Mr. Jefferson lives!)
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To: naturalman1975

"deepest solidarity'' provided there isn't a dollar to made on the souls of the victims, and the subsequently dead British soldiers who will fight (whoever did this) in their name.


6 posted on 07/07/2005 4:31:58 AM PDT by TeddyCon
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To: OpusatFR

I do not wish this on the French or anyone else? I do not trust Chirac, but I don't think that he was involved and that's what I thought I was saying.

Sorry if it came out wrong.


7 posted on 07/07/2005 4:40:54 AM PDT by saveliberty (Liberal= in need of therapy, but would rather ruin lives of those less fortunate to feel good)
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To: naturalman1975

"deepest solidarity''

What's that worth?


8 posted on 07/07/2005 4:48:59 AM PDT by SMARTY ("Stay together, pay the soldiers and forget everything else." Lucius Septimus Severus)
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To: naturalman1975
FRANCE today raised its anti-terror alert to red, the second-highest rating, after a series of explosions rocked London, Prime Minister Dominique de Villepin announced.


9 posted on 07/07/2005 4:57:27 AM PDT by Virginia Ridgerunner ("Si vis pacem para bellum")
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To: OpusatFR

The French are in more trouble that what you post.

They did not support us and will not support Britain. They are nefarious, back stabbing, cowardly, ingrates.

Nobody deserves this kind of attack. But France has made its bed and its own government did it. It was not imposed on the French. They embraced it and embraced their very own villainy.

I have no sympathy for the French today or on any other day.


10 posted on 07/07/2005 5:00:40 AM PDT by cajungirl (no)
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To: cajungirl

I don't have that much sympathy, just for life.

I'm more concerned about the art and architecture and history! France was once the mightiest defender of Christianity and the church. I can just see the creeps pulling down Chartres and making it into a mosque or putting a horrid mineret on top of Notre Dame.


11 posted on 07/07/2005 5:03:24 AM PDT by OpusatFR (Try permaculture and get back to the Founders intent. Mr. Jefferson lives!)
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To: OpusatFR

I guess I have decided that the world of ideas and freedoms trumps the art and architecture.

I know what you mean but where was France when the Taliban were blowing up those ancient stone carvings?

The French were silent then but reserved their outrage for our troops alleged destruction of Islamic art,,a phony report, but very revealing.

The French care more about hating us, selling out than they do about the Louvre. I have given up on them. But that is just me.


12 posted on 07/07/2005 5:08:22 AM PDT by cajungirl (no)
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To: cajungirl

"I guess I have decided that the world of ideas and freedoms trumps the art and architecture."

But it is freedom and ideas that make art and architecture possible. The Muslims respect neither freedom nor art. I understand how people can speak about the French as one because of the country's policies. But, knowing French people on an individual level, they are lovely.

I don't want to judge all by a country's policies no more than I want others to judge me by policies I disagree with here.

But, this is all IMHO.


13 posted on 07/07/2005 5:13:35 AM PDT by OpusatFR (Try permaculture and get back to the Founders intent. Mr. Jefferson lives!)
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To: naturalman1975

Dunno why le froggies should be worried. Why would their islamic allies attack them?


14 posted on 07/07/2005 6:09:39 AM PDT by dynachrome ("Where am I? Where am I going? Why am I in a handbasket?")
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To: cajungirl
"I have no sympathy for the French today or on any other day."

I have a World War One vet relative buried in France. I wonder if there's some sort of administrative process our family could go through to have him removed from French soil and returned to the U.S.?
15 posted on 07/09/2005 12:22:02 AM PDT by Gum Shoe
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To: Gum Shoe

Dont know. But I would sympathise with you. Except that your relative's grave and all those graves kind of serve as a daily reminder to them that they owe us, big time. I sort of like it. Think of your relative as giving the French a big ole wedgie everyday they live.


16 posted on 07/09/2005 3:13:33 AM PDT by cajungirl (no)
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