Bomb Alert Evacuates Paris Train Stations

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North Train Station, Paris

Spain is down, France may be next. From AP:

PARIS -- French authorities evacuated stations on a train line that cuts across the French capital on Thursday after the CIA warned of possible attacks, police said.

The CIA warned of an attack on Paris' RER train network between 8:30 p.m. and 9:30 p.m., said a French intelligence official, who spoke on the condition of anonymity. Subway stations connecting to the line were also closed, the RATP public transport company said.

But no attack materialized in that hour and just after 9:30 p.m., police said a search of stations turned up no evidence of a planned attack and lifted the alert.

Traffic on the RER-A line, which crosses Paris and links the capital to the suburbs, was interrupted at 8:15 p.m., police said. Stations in Paris and the suburbs were evacuated so officers could search.

French authorities have been on high alert since the March 11 bombings on four commuter trains in Madrid, Spain, that killed 191 people and wounded more than 1,800.

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How would they notice a service interruption? The trains and subways are off line about half the time for some form of strike or other.

How long do we have to wait before the french start complaining that this was all Bush's fault?

These fantatics will strike Europe in a bigway someday soon. And there will be instant retribution on the streets on Paris and London. Mullahs take cover now, the mobs will get you if it comes to that..

The Age is a left wing paper. So it is surprising that it would print such an article !
Only last week they eulogised Yassin!
Europe has indeed been mortally wounded.
No longer are the Mahdi fanatics confined to the Arabian desserts on their camels.
they are all over europe ready to be summoned by their mullahs for jihad against their host nations.
Western Liberalism is indeed a blessing from ALLAH and has blindly allowed this infiltration since the 1960s.
This liberalism was a kneejerk reaction to the fascism that had engulfed europe and has achieved for Islam what centuries of wars never could.
How Ironic that the collective guilt over the horrors of the Holocaust has actually helped their objectives.
And the European greed for cheap labour.
The demonification of America and Israel as a sacrificial lamb to islam has only provided a hudna for the Islamofascists.
We are now entering a new phase in which they will push for "power sharing " . Again we will be blacknmailed into acceptance with homicidal threats or simply "human rights" arguments.
This is a huge ongoing problem to which i cannot see a solution if we continue to play by our democratic freedom rules.