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France sets up new terror alert system based on color codes
AP/Yahoo via Drudge ^
| March 27, 2003
| AP
Posted on 03/27/2003 11:50:48 AM PST by lainie
PARIS - France introduced a new terrorism alert system on Thursday, with four color-coded levels from yellow to scarlet to make the national warning plan more flexible and understandable.
Until now, France had only two grades of alert for its terror warning system, called Vigipirate: "simple" and "reinforced."
Vigipirate has been on "reinforced" alert since the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks, and French authorities have been even more watchful since war broke out in Iraq.
France qualified the terror risk on Thursday as orange the second-lowest of four levels. The government said an attack was "plausible," there was no imminent or specific risk. The level of threat was the same as in previous days.
The orange alert grade calls for reinforced patrols in train stations and subways, a ban on flights over sensitive sites including nuclear plants, and increased surveillance of water distribution systems.
The lowest level of alert is yellow, which calls for measures including more train station patrols.
Red, the second-highest, calls for vast stretches of France's airspace to be closed and the setting aside of drinking water supplies, among other precautions.
In a scarlet alert, the civil aviation system is shut down, faucet water distribution is limited or stopped and all passengers are searched as they board trains.
TOPICS: Extended News; Political Humor/Cartoons
KEYWORDS: antifrenchhumor; drudge; france; greenwithenvy; terrorism
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To: lainie
>I do not know the difference between red and scarlet, or how any French people will be able to tell.
French chicks know how to accessorize. The difference between those colors is obvious to them.
To: mhking
To: Constitution Day
LOL - that's about right, too...
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posted on
03/27/2003 12:10:18 PM PST
by
mhking
To: lainie
PARIS - France introduced a new terrorism alert system on Thursday, with four color-coded levels from yellow to scarlet to make the national warning plan more flexible and understandable.
France qualified the terror risk on Thursday as orange - the second-lowest of four levels. The orange alert grade calls for Frenchmen to carry a white clothe or flag with them at all times.
The lowest level of alert is yellow, which calls for measures including appeasement of those who seek to destroy France.
Red, the second-highest, calls for vast stretches of France's airspace to be opened to all enemy aircraft and the setting aside of portions of the country for enemy troops to occupy.
In a scarlet alert, able-bodied French males are asked begin civil defense training by assuming the fetal position. Those unwilling to serve in Civil Defense roles are simply asked to wave their arms in an effiminate manner while sipping wine and eating cheese.
THAT IS MORE LIKE IT!
To: Lee Heggy
PINK for the French "HOMO - CIDE" Bombers
To: lainie
Great, just what we need, another system resembling the side of an All Temperature laundry detergent box.
To: mhking
That would be various shades of pastel yellow - right?
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posted on
03/27/2003 12:24:55 PM PST
by
chainsaw
To: lainie
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posted on
03/27/2003 12:40:55 PM PST
by
Nick Danger
(More rallys planned! www.freeper.org)
To: lainie
Until now, France had only two grades of alert for its terror warning system, called Vigipirate: "simple" "surrender" and "reinforced.""capitulation".
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posted on
03/27/2003 12:55:25 PM PST
by
CaptRon
To: kellynla
France's battle mottos:
Drop your guns when you see the whites of their eyes.
"I would rather have a German Division in front of me than a French one in back of me"
George Patton
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posted on
03/27/2003 1:06:49 PM PST
by
Pharmer
To: lainie
Umm.. New color codes?
White flag, white flag, white flag, and white flag?
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posted on
03/27/2003 1:18:48 PM PST
by
Darksheare
(Nox aeternus en pax.)
To: lainie
écarlate,
rouge,
jaune,
orange I still don't understand why they picked two reds in a four-color scheme.
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posted on
03/27/2003 2:19:58 PM PST
by
lainie
To: Bobby777
Too funny!
V
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posted on
03/27/2003 2:36:00 PM PST
by
Beck_isright
(V is for VICTORY....and that means shutting up the Eurotrash by boycotting them!!!)
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To: Nick Danger
Now that's funny!
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posted on
03/27/2003 2:58:28 PM PST
by
El Sordo
To: lainie
Perhaps the frogs are worried Al Qaeda will strike Paris in retribution for Chirac's inability to prevent the war in Iraq. Poetic justice.
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posted on
03/27/2003 3:05:22 PM PST
by
laz17
(Socialism is the religion of the atheist.)
To: Beck_isright
hehe ...
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posted on
03/27/2003 3:35:00 PM PST
by
Bobby777
To: lainie
In a scarlet alert, ... faucet water distribution is limited or stopped Am I the only one who thinks that makes NO sense?!
To: Genesis defender
Bathing is stopped in preperation for the coming comments of 'Fraulein!!' and the (hoped for) improvement of their gene pool.
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posted on
03/28/2003 2:56:27 PM PST
by
Darksheare
(Nox aeternus en pax.)
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