Posted on 10/17/2010 6:54:46 PM PDT by blam
French Minister Says Saudis Have Warned Europe, Notably France, Of Al-Qaida Terror Threat
U.S. Department of State ELAINE GANLEY
Associated Press Writer
3:18 p.m. CDT, October 17, 2010
PARIS (AP) — Saudi intelligence services have warned of a new terror threat from al-Qaida against Europe, particularly in France, Interior Minister Brice Hortefeux said Sunday.
He said the warning of a potential attack by al-Qaida in the Arabian Peninsula was received "in the last few hours, few days."
European officials were informed that "al-Qaida in the Arabian Peninsula was doubtless active or envisioned being active" on the "European continent, notably France," Hortefeux said during a joint TV and radio interview.
"The threat is real," he said on RTL-LCI-Le Figaro's weekly talk show.
The warning from Saudi Arabia is the latest in a series of alerts that have put French security forces and others in high-vigilance mode.
On Sept. 9, Interpol, the international police organization, signaled an "Islamist threat on a world scale, and notably on the European continent," Hortefeux said without elaborating. That was followed by a Sept. 16, report of a woman suicide bomber who could take action in France — later judged not fully credible.
Intelligence sources in North Africa also contacted France about a potential threat as did the United States, he said. He said he had spoken at length with U.S. Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano.
It was the first time a French official has offered details about potential threats since mid-September, when officials first publicly invoked the possibility that France could be a target of radical Islamist groups.
"We must not overestimate the threat or underestimate it," the minister said. "We are directly concerned."
No one could be reached at the Saudi Interior Ministry late Sunday.
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This procedure probably would only be necessary twice.
This is the only way to deal with pig-faced Islamic savages.
Or, how about waiting till the Meca pilgrimage.
Then drop a Hiroshima size bomb on them?
You’re correct, but your ratio is off. 1000:1
I like your solution. I do think that every time a suicide bomber explodes so should their own personal house and those of all their close relatives, maybe they’d stop raising idiots.
They need to stop supporting Israel.. no wait.
They need to get out of Iraq?
No that’s not it.
They need to pull their bases from Saudi Arabia?
No wait .
The must allow the building of a Mosque at Versailles?
Um... these peoples mothers raise their children with the words coming out of her mouth that she can’t wait till they kill themselves for allah. My sense is hey wouldnt give a crap about their own people dying.
All they have left now are the offspring of beat poets and down-low homosexuals.
The only way that we stopped the fanatic Japanese from their rampage in the Pacific was to flatten their cities one by one until they surrendered.
Your work?
I would offer that the French should round up the Muslims, pack them aboard ship and plane and send them back to their God forsaken nations of origin. Deal harshly with anyone that resists.
You can’t have muslim terrorism in your country if you have no muslims. They will not stop until the west has surrended to islam.
Perhaps the rest of Europe will do the same and, hopefully the US as well.
Toss ‘em out, bring our troops home, and let them check on their oil...
But I know a work of art when I see one!
Constant fear-mongering does us no good.
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