[CJ Wolf]

I disagree, while we don't know when or exactly where they will strike, they always threaten and strike what they say. In OBL's last message from Dr. Z. in Feb. singled out France because of the headscarf ban. Bush was taunted. In light of Spain (who was also mentioned) I would take this serious. EU elections are coming up as well as German presidential.

Most people are too busy making fun of them when they send videotapes, or later after attacks, critizing the victims countries reaction, while they are planning the next attack. Meanwhile the keystone cops are looking under every old ladies chair (ETA did this!) ignoring the elephant.

On a world stage I fear we will never be united like they are against the west right now.

[areafiftyone]

Yup I was right, it was about the Head scarf ban. Looks like a Chechen threat

PARIS, March 16 (Reuters) - A letter from an Islamist group threatens to plunge France into "terror and remorse", the newspaper which received the letter said on Tuesday.

The letter linked the threat to the French ban on headscarves in state schools, the deputy editor of daily Le Parisien Jacques Esperandieu told Reuters.

The letter was signed by a group calling itself the Movsar Barayev Commando, the Interior Ministry said in a statement.

That appeared to be a reference to Movsar Barayev, who organised the Octover 2002 Chechen commando raid and hostage-taking at a Moscow theatre that ended with 129 dead. He died in the special forces raid on the theatre.

[Mr. Mojo]

There was no threat or terror warning prior to 9/11, the first WTC bombing, the blast in Indonesia, the Spanish train bombings .....none of them. Terror happens, and it happens at unpredictable times.

It's not that I'm not taking this latest threat seriously (far from it, in fact), it's just that the next major attack could happen tomorrow, next week, or next year .....we just have no idea. And it always happens when we least expect it to.