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..the GIGN, who I have respect for.

I was in France when the GIGN dispatched the Islamic wacko hijackers in Marseilles.

My ship had a port visit in Cannes for the Christmas holidays. Several shipmates and I were the houseguests of a French family (Jewish, fwiw). When we saw the reports of the hijackers landing in Marseilles, our host assured us that " the hijackers won't get away with this, the GIGN will kill them".

Turns out she was correct. The hijackers, btw, wanted to crash the airliner in Paris, they speculate the Eiffel Tower was the target. Hmmmm... Imagine that, Islamic terrorists using planes as weapons, way back in 1994.

When it comes to terrorism, the French are bi-polar hypocrits. They are completely blase, permismissive abettors about terrorism in outher countries; however, they are 1000% ruthless when it comes to terrorism interefering with their own national interests.

The GIGN and the FFL have been routinely been used to protect French (and only French) interests world-wide from terrorism.

The Rainbow Warrior was "scuttled" (albiet sloppily) because Green Peace interfered with the French interest to remain an independant nuclear weapon-producing nation. With GP meddling with French nuclear testing in the Pacific, they couldn't maintain that independant status and *gasp* may have to rely on another nation for nuclear testing data. If another country attempted the same act of overt sabatoge, they would be promptly scolded by the French in the UN Security Council.