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.
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.