Al-Qa'eda 'behind attack on oil tanker' (WELCOME TO THE PARTY, JACQUES ALERT)

The Daily Telegraph ^ | October 7, 2002 | Alan Philps and Harry de Quetteville

[BigWaveBetty]

A wall map in one of bin Laden's training centres in Kabul depicts the French navy and French military bases on the Red Sea coast of Africa as part of the "Crusader assault on Islamic Holy Places".

So ole Jackie receives this information and thinks what?

"Oh those nutty arabs, they're just having fun playing Where in the World is Matt Lauer?!"

Let this be a lesson to you appeasers, when you have brie for brains, you're a cheesehead.

[MadIvan]

"Come out to the Yemeni coast, we'll get together, have a few laughs..."

Regards, Ivan

[Blood of Tyrants]

Have they surrendered yet?

[jjm2111]

Sacrebleu! You mean dat zee sweaty Arabs havit out for us too? No no mon ami. C'est lamour!

[randita]

Having been in these parts perhaps a bit too long, I speculate that this incident is reminiscent of Tonkin Gulf and the C Turner Joy.....a staged incident to give the French cover to be more helpful to US/British efforts against Iraq.

Not crazy at all. Now if you really want to christen the tin foil, consider this far fetched notion that I'm sure will be bandied about my numerous anti-American sympathizers. They will say that the U.S. CIA was behind this attack, so as to propel France to take our side. Utter nonsense, but I'm sure it will be out there and believed in many circles.

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[Savage Beast]

LOL (grimly)! Do you have one of Adolf et al. wearing those towel-kinda things--nodooses or something like that???

[alfa6]

You might recall that another guest of the French in an earlier time was Ho Chi Minh. Look what the French hospitality got them in that case, eh.

Regards

alfa6 ;>}

[OldFriend]

Europe presents a posture of utter weakness in the ignorant belief that it will protect them from attack.

They also count on the US to protect them if their cowardice fails to protect them.

[taxed2death]

What would it take to mount 4 or 5 of those GE gatling guns on the decks of these ships.....you know, the ones that spit out 10 rounds a second? Hell, feed me and give me decent crew quarters and I'd volunteer for that turkey shoot for free.

[CreekerFreeper]

Well, that's just too bad for the smelly French. Shave and wipe your rear and shower off. Your whole country stinks up the place.

[Jabba the Nutt]

Wouldn't this conspiracy theory conflict with the previous conspiracy theory, that the oil companies are controlling American foreign policy? Won't this attack raise the insurance costs for big oil?

[sheik yerbouty]

La Belle France!

[mikhailovich]

You're jumping the gun. No link to terrorism has been established in this explosion. Speculation? Of course = Yemen. But not a done deal, as this thread suggests.

[hang 'em]

Pol Pot, too.

[RJCogburn]

That's why I wonder if I have been at FreeRepublic too long.

A few years ago, the thought would not have even entered my mind. But, now....

I would never have considered that Caity Mahoney's murder at the Starbucks was anything but a botched robbery, or Barbara Wise's death was suspicious, or that Vince Foster's death was not a tragic suicide, or that my government might cover up a possible link to Muslims at the OKC bombing or that the attack on the USS Liberty was anything other than a big error.

Go figure.....

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[ffrancone]

What you said, Miss Marple

[ffrancone]

I would suggest that either al Qaeda or Iraq is deliberately attacking the French. Why? Neither want the French to approve the pending US security council resolution.

The paranoid "gulf of tonkin" argument is probably wrong. It suggests that the French actually want to invade Iraq and are looking for a pretext.

Rather than ascribing a sudden fit of bravery to the French leadership, a dubious proposition at best, it is much simpler to posit that Saddam doesn't want the French to approve the US Security council resolution. So he is firing a shot across their bow. It will work. They will bow.

[RightWhale]

Ho Chi Min, too. They like exiles.