I wonder if this will have any impact on The Traitor's attitude.
Posted on 02/10/2007 10:57:02 PM PST by fishhound
FRENCH intelligence has produced a dossier alleging that al-Qaeda plans an attack on the country during forthcoming presidential elections.
The Arabic-language al-Hayat daily newspaper has reported there were "several indications of a plot to copy the Spanish scenario in France", a reference to the explosions that rocked Madrid in March 2004.
The London-based daily quoted mainly "messages posted on internet sites close to al-Qaeda carrying threats against France, accompanied by pictures from the campaigns for the presidential elections", which are slated for April and May.
The newspaper said the eight-page intelligence report took three months to prepare and included contributions from different French intelligence services which identified "four sources of threat".
One came from "Iraqi networks", including returnee volunteers from European countries who had fought with the Iraqi branch of al-Qaeda.
"The north African networks linked to Algeria's Salafist Group for Preaching and Combat" (GSPC) are another source of threat, the report said.
Al-Hayat also published a letter attributed to al-Qaeda chief Osama bin Laden addressed to a GSPC leader referred to as Abu Qassem, in which he recommends targeting France "to hit where it hurts most".
Although France was not mentioned by name in the letter, the Saudi-born terror chief - who has a $US25 million ($32 million) US bounty on his head - made clear references to it.
"This infidel country has colonised Muslim countries for a long time. Today it uses all its power to support the infidel group which rules Algeria with an iron fist," bin Laden said in the letter published by the daily.
"It is a religious duty to fight [this enemy] even in the heart of its land, especially that it chases the mujahedeen [holy warriors] within its country and in neighbouring ones ... and that it is a firm US ally," the letter said.
Paris has come under fire from Islamic radicals over its 2004 ban on religious insignia including the Muslim headscarf in state schools, as well as over its support for the Algerian Government.
In January, the GSPC urged Algerians to attack French nationals.
Formed in 1998 by dissidents of the Islamic Armed Group, the GSPC is the sole remaining radical movement that continues to wage an insurgency against the secular Algerian state.
Last September the group officially placed itself under al-Qaeda orders.
I wonder if this will have any impact on The Traitor's attitude.
AQ is going Drama Queen on this one. No need to blow up their home base...
Can anyone tell us if the mooselimb children are still torching peugeots and renaults?
Nostradamas predicts that paris gets nuced.
TheLebowskiDude: member since 02/11/07. Second troll I've seen tonight.
Dude, just for your perusal, since I know you are probably a Lib troll: France, since the death of Louis XVI, has never been a real ally of the U.S. It has sought to use us, insults us, and has never helped any other country, in any significant, self-sacrificing way. They are base cowards, socialists, and ungrateful wretches, in the main. If AQ is targetting them, despite their anti-WOT stance... Well, maybe we should criticize them (the French) by publicly protesting them for not being sensitive enough, or multicultural enough, to show their muslim brothers that they have nothing to fear from them.
I know you can't be serious. You must have forgotten the "sarcasm" tag.
Segolene Royal needs all the help she can get.
(Yawn)
So.....in a few years, they'll be a massive influx of muzzie genes into the French bloodlines.
Just like NAZI German genes into it in '40-'44.
The French have proven to be such craven cowards.
I don't care what happens to France as long as they are not asking for our help.
Blah Blah "Global Warming" Blah Blah.
France never supported the Iraqi War, and they are barely a presence in Afghanistan. I've read that the CIA and French Intelligence Services cooperate very well together, and have done so for many years. But, I suppose in the end Al Qaeda wants to elect the socialists who will trash the US and the WOT louder than ever.
On a possibly related note...
The Eiffel Mosque.
al-Qaeda loves Paris in the springtime...
Ah yes. Sign-up and start talking sh*t. Smells like troll.
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