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News came today that the Europeans are waking and discovering — mon dieu — that Al Qaeda is in their midst. And — even worse — the pervasive anti-Americanism of Western Europe seems to have acted as a recruiting machine for young Muslims in Europe to go to Iraq to kill Americans.

Over the past few years, France has won the reputation as being the leading anti-American voice of the Western world. Of late, news has been trickling out of France which suggests that President Chirac has taken his opposition to the U.S. to a new level. One example includes allowing the pro-Ba’th pro-Saddam group “La Resistance” to operate out of Paris. The group’s main goal is to support killing U.S. troops in Iraq.

CULTURE CLASH LEAVES JAPANESE AFFLICTED WITH 'PARIS SYNDROME' Received Sunday, 19 December 2004 12:44:00 GMT PARIS, Dec 19 (AFP) - For years visitors to the French capital have complained of the rudeness of the locals, but now there are the first documented victims: hundreds of young Japanese women who have fallen prey to what a Japanese psychiatrist identifies as "Paris syndrome." According to Dr Hiroyki Ota, who works at the Sainte-Anne psychiatric hospital in Paris, more than 100 Japanese people pass through his consulting room every year showing the same symptoms of nervous depression. Around a quarter have to be...