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It seems to have gotten them what they wanted in Spain. An update on jihadist threats to France, from al-Qaeda and other groups. "France targeted by al-Qaeda," by Roee Nahmias for YNet News:
A French intelligence report says that France is being targeted by al-Qaeda, the London-based Arabic-language newspaper al-Hayat reported Friday.
The report warned decision makers of a series of scenarios, including a terror attack which will take place ahead of the presidential elections in a bid to influence their results.
The report was recently submitted to the French authorities and was titled 'Situation report on the radical Islamic terror threat in France.' The report was composed by various intelligence and security organizations in the country for three months.
The writers of report fear a terror attack similar to the one which took place in Madrid in March 2004. In order to illustrate the concrete threat, the newspaper published for the first time a letter handwritten and signed by Osama bin Laden, which instructed a radical Islamic organization in Algeria to "attack in eastern and southern France."
According to the report, al-Qaeda affiliated websites contain "threatening messages by the organization, which include pictures from the French presidential campaign."
The report added that "what contributes to the severity of the threats is that senior al-Qaeda members need to prove that they can still exert their influence in Europe and not only in the traditional jihad countries such as Iraq and Afghanistan."
The report detailed four "threat centers" from which the activists would emerge. The first is "the Iraqi networks": Hundreds of Muslims with a European citizenship who volunteered to fight in Iraq against the US army and returned last summer to Europe. Since their return, they have been working on building secret cells or preparing terror attacks.
Intelligence information received by France points to the fact that one of the close assistants of Jordanian terrorist Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, confessed during an interrogation by the Iraqi intelligence that about 30 radical Islamic Moroccans carrying a European passport have secretly infiltrated France and several French-speaking countries in Africa in a bid to prepare terror attacks.
It appears that this information has been taken seriously by France, as several suspects have already been arrested in Canada.
Immediate threat: An Algerian group
The second source of threat mentioned by the report was "the Afghan-Pakistan networks." Contrary to the prevailing belief that these networks completely disintegrated after September 11, 2001 and the war in Afghanistan, these organizations' training camps have reappeared near the Afghanistan-Pakistan border.
The report warned that volunteers carrying a European passport were recently seen in two camps, one in Pakistan run by Taliban members and the other in Afghanistan run by one of bin Laden's former bodyguards.
The report stated that the counterterrorism organizations in France have been increasingly concerned by these networks, particularly after activists who left the camps were recently exposed in terror cells uncovered in Britain, Belgium, France and Morocco.
These terrorists were carrying the 'Guide for Jihad' written by al-Qaeda member Abu Musab al-Suri, in which he preaches to attack France as it is "A legitimate target for jihad."
Intelligence information received by France reveals that for the first time, women were among the terrorists who left the camps and settled in Europe in order to prepare terror attacks.
A third source of concern for the French intelligence is "the Caucasian terror networks." According to the information, these networks are supervised by the al-Qaeda representative in Central Asia and include graduates of secret training camps in different places in Asia, including Kashmir, China, Uzbekistan, Georgia and Chechnya.
According to the report, graduates of the Kashmir camp with a British and Dutch citizenship were recently arrested. Another cell was uncovered in France.
A fourth source of concern for France, and perhaps the most severe, is the organizations in North Africa, mainly those affiliated with a radical Islamic organization in Algeria. The leader of this organization has threatened France several times in the past two years.
The same organization was recently blessed by bin Laden's deputy, Ayman al-Zawahiri, as the group which will lead the jihad in Europe and North Africa. The organization changed its name and officially became part of al-Qaeda after receiving bin Laden's blessing.
This group was formerly known as the Salafist Group for Preaching and Combat, or GSPC.
This organization was the one which received the letter from bin Laden ordering an attack on France.
"The Algerian organization now constitutes the greatest source of threat on France and on all of Europe. Due to its organizational ability and its long-terms relations with al-Qaeda and especially with Osama bin Laden in person, the organizations has turned into al-Qaeda's key representative in Europe," the report warned.
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at February 11, 2007 7:49 AM
And the irony is, it might be such an attack in France, which finally wakes up the loony liberal left, and signals the end of political correctness.
...but then again.
Posted by: Spirit Of 1683 at February 11, 2007 8:00 AM
Now why would the French think that Al Qaeda would want to target them?! = /
Immediate threat: An Algerian group Hmmm... now there is an epiphany. This is what the French multiculturalist and the appeasers should have expected.
Posted by: gnegypt at February 11, 2007 8:01 AM
In Spain there wasnīt a islamic terrorist act, it was a terrorist act made by state men, for removing the Azanrīs goverment and putting the socialist goverment. In an good example of terrorism used for politics, the moroccan were detained for thinking that it was a islamic terrorist act. But there are many spanish and non-muslims detained and they colaborated with these moroccan. In addition the eyewitness contradict themselves.
In France, Sarkozy, itīs a different politican and he is a danger for the current system, and if Royal needs a help, the muslims can help her. Remember, that Royal has said that the regulation of the immigrants is one of her priorities.
The enemy is islam but mainly, the traitors in the West, think about it.
at February 11, 2007 8:07 AM
Seems like the chickens might be comming home to roost. Maybe the French will get their just reward.
Posted by: AMartinez at February 11, 2007 9:24 AM
Seems like the chickens might be comming home to roost. Maybe the French will get their just reward.
Posted by: AMartinez at February 11, 2007 09:24 AM
You hit the nail right on the head! As I said in a previous post, wolves are wolves even if you choose to call them sheep and they'll still eat you in the end regardless of how much you attempt to appease them. France is one of those pathetic countries that never quite learns its' lesson.
at February 11, 2007 9:48 AM
There are so many Muslims in France now that basically it's a doomed country. The authorities appease rather than fight back. Political Correctness and Multiculturalism have killed beautiful France, a country I've visited. I mourn for it, and Italy, too (also visited). I wish Oriana Fallaci could have lived to be 100 so we would still have her here fighting against the Muslim immigration in Italy.
Posted by: darcy at February 11, 2007 10:09 AM
Turkey is so pathetic with it's law that a Turk cannot speak out "against Turkishness." !! They think they're perfect, or something? The most horrible woman I ever knew was (is) Turkish.
Posted by: darcy at February 11, 2007 10:12 AM
Sarkozy has to move further along; he cannot continue to believe that the French state can, through subsidizing mosques, or by further enormous attempts at "integration" -- by which he means preferment for Muslims, a kind of affirmative action -- undo, or permanently quarantine, those texts, those Qur'anic passages, those stories in the hadith, those many details in the Sira, or Life of Muhammad, that make his example a menace for all Infidels.
After Sarkozy is elected, he will have to think clearly about this, and so will others. How exactly do they intend to make sure, in those subsidized mosques paid for by the French Infidels, or in "integrating" Muslims so that they are better able not only to rise to positions of power and influence, but also better to present their own case for Islam -- as say, Tariq Ramadan does so much better, given his command of French and his sly and sinister ability to mold his pitch to the Western audiences he understands so much better than, say, the Muslim cleric who squirmed so uneasily while being interviewed by Hannity the other day.
Sarkozy may really not know this. He may really not have thought through to the heart of the matter, and the full menace of Islam. But the way he (and then Alain Finkielkraut) demolished Tariq Ramadan on televised debates, gives hope. If only Le Pen could disappear, so that some of his misguised supporters would move to Sarkozy or to Philippe de Villiers, who represents those with the clearest sense of Islam and of what must be done, and who has been intellectually, and morally, impeccable.
The French elites, those politechniciens and enarquistes, as one might call them, in an act of colossal folly, allowed into France, over the past 45 years, millions of Muslims. It started with the harkis. It continued with Arab workers from Algeria. Then Giscard d'Estaing thought that the criminal behavior (read: anti-Infidel behavior) of those Arab workers might end if only they were allowed to have "family reunification." It had a plausible ring. Let them have their wives (one wife was contemplated), and their children, and they will turn out to be good family men. Well, the wives came, and the children came, and more children were born, and the French state provided the free edcuation, the free medical care, the absurdly subsidized and, by American standards, quite good housing, and all the rest of the benefits offered by the Infidel natioh-state, and paid for by the Infidel taxpayers, and guess what? The Muslim population grew and grew and grew, while, as life became ever more unpleasant and expensive for Infidels, and especially with the Muslim presence in schools causing many French parents anxiety and alarm, and the need for possibly private schools where such need had never existed before, the natural consequence was a drop in the size of French non-Muslim families, as French people factored in the perceived cost of raisinig children. And so the Muslim population rose both absolutely and relatively. There is no way to deal with this matter, save at the edges, by appealing to the most advanced people born into Islam who will be willing to leave it, for Christianity or unbelief, and also to those non-Arab Muslims, chiefly to be found in France among the Berbers, whose legitimate resentment against the cultural and political imperialism of the Arabs in North Africa (and especially felt in the Kabyle), can help prompt a critical distancing, by some Berbers, from Islam, Islam now seen as what it always was -- a vehicle for Arab imperialsm, the most successful imperialism in human history, and certainly the most damaging, the most deaddly, for its victims, and most of all in India.
During the past forty years, successive French governemnts, run by arrogant elites, outwardly cultivated, with a certain shallow gloss, but essentially unthinking, have betrayed their own country and those in whose name they presumed to rule, as they did nothing, or listened to those fools who, billed as "experts on Islam" -- two of the greatest fools being Gilles Kepel and Olivier Roy, while those who had actually read, and thought, and knew something about the matter -- Jacques Ellul, Jacques Soustelle, Charles-Emanuel Dufourcq, even at the end of his life Maxime Rodinson -- were simply belittled, or more often, ignored.
But who has turned out to be right? Jacques Ellul, and Soustelle, and Dufourcq, and Rodinson, and the steely analyst of dhimmitude and the European malaise, Bat Ye'or, or has it been Giscard d'Estaing, and Chirac, and Dominique de Villepin, and Gilles Kepel, and Olivier Roy, and Eric Rouleau (who at Le Monde helped make that paper save for the Arabs and for Islam)?
Who?
Posted by: Hugh at February 11, 2007 10:15 AM
and al queda are trying to sway the vote for whom? le pen?
i hear that the BNP have a 3 month backlog for membership, all thanks to muslims.
these muslims are gonna turn europe right wing, soon we will unfortunately see another "hitler". thanks muslims, you are complete morons.
Posted by: leonthepigfarmer at February 11, 2007 10:28 AM
I am amused. Terrorist attacks will help Sarkosy win.
These guys still think the Spanish ousted Aznar out of fear.
No, Sir, that was because he lied to the people. If it had been fear, the people would not have gathered in the streets after the attack.
at February 11, 2007 11:01 AM
Do the names Reid and Pelosi mean anything to you?
al Qaeda jerked Uncle Sam's chain via Cindy Sheehan and Democrats and viola the yanks overthrew their government too.
Thankfully America still has George Bush and by all his oil stockpiling and other energy sources he is preparing for the coming attack on Iran before a nuke shows up in New York.
Shamefully, the majority of Americans jumped even higher when al Qaeda called than the Spaniards and French.
Posted by: Lame Cherry at February 11, 2007 2:25 PM
Rougie:
Reason & logic properly applied turn the pen into a clarion, well done!
Posted by: sheik yer'mami at February 11, 2007 3:27 PM
This is too bad for France, but who can they blame but themselves? They willfully allowed the Mislim invasion of their country, and now they're about to pay the piper.
It's too late for France, But will the rest of Europe and America learn from the French before it's too late for the rest of us?
I doubt it. We're all in bondage to the same self-destructive ideology that brought France to where it's at, and we have no leaders with the foresight to see what's comming.
Posted by: rational
at February 11, 2007 3:40 PM
The problem in France is that the muslim community has secluded itself so much and refused to immigrate. And it's getting worse. 20 years ago, many muslimahs went out without any veil, but their daughters feel the necessety to wear it because the muslim boys have become sexist macho dungheads who oppress the girls in the most disgusting way. We need a new feminist movement everywhere.
Posted by: feministagainstislam at February 11, 2007 4:09 PM
Chirac's policy will be under attack if and when islamist attack more French institutions. perhaps a few museums might wake up the lazy sleepy French elitist.
Posted by: ZenaWarriorPrincess at February 11, 2007 4:29 PM
This book reveals the history of the French,the arabs(islam) and the Jews: Betrayal by David Pryce- Jones.
at February 11, 2007 4:34 PM
Rougie - I don't think that leonthepigfarmer's concerns are completely out of line to be dismissed so readily. Especially if he were Jewish. No - not everything right-wing is automatically Hitler, but minorities in Europe like Hindus and Jews and Sikhs would have good cause to be concerned about precisely where certain right-wing groups who recognize the Islamic threat might be coming from more broadly. If I were Jewish I would be particularly concerned about not getting screwed from either side. It's going to take a lot of vigilance from those who recognize the particular Islamic threat to be aware of where candidates stand in terms of other minority groups as well.
Posted by: Caroline at February 11, 2007 4:52 PM
Arab Bank offers life-insurance for suicide bombers:
http://sheikyermami.com/2007/02/11/life-insurance-for-pali-suicide-bombers/
Posted by: sheik yer'mami at February 11, 2007 5:04 PM
i hear that the BNP have a 3 month backlog for membership, all thanks to muslims.
these muslims are gonna turn europe right wing, soon we will unfortunately see another "hitler". thanks muslims, you are complete morons.
Posted by: leonthepigfarmer at February 11, 2007 10:28 AM
+++++++++++++++
it will take a nuke going off in france before the french take any meaningful action.....and it is coming............
you can not come to peace with the cult of because the cult of islam does not want peace but world domination.
war is being waged against the west and the west is not fighting. the west has a very short memory.
Remember the truth:
muslims murdered 3,000 Americans on 9/11.
muslims murdered 52 Brits on 7/7
muslims murdered 201 Spaniards on 3/11
muslims murdered 785 Israelis in the last six years.
muslims murdered 2 million plus Christians in Sudan.
muslims murdered a million plus Africans in Darfur
muslims raped millions of women and children in Darfur and Sudan.
muslims murdered 186 children and 158 adults, a total of 354 in Belsan.
muslims have murdered and harmed tens of millions of innocents in the last two decades.
this is WW3 being waged by the cult of islam against the West......
either the West starts fighting this war or we all die or become slaves........
how many millions more will the muslims murder before the West wakes up.
Churchill stated about the nazi vileness in germany and was ridiculed.......Chamberlin said peace was made with hitler and germany, but WW2 was the result. you can not make peace with those that do not want peace which defines the cult of islam.
if europe does not start fighting back, europe is lost.........if the cult of islam takes over an european nation that has nukes and missiles how long does America have?????????????
be frightened........for you, your familly's and America's very survival.
WW3 is underway and war is coming inside America and it can not be stopped.
become involed in politics and kick out the pcness in DC and vote in an American that will take care of America and Americans regardless of what the rest of the world thinks.........
Representative Tom Tancredo.........is our current best bet..............
you future and America's future is being weighed in the balance.
God bless America, England, Canada, Australia, Darfur and our Fighting Forces across the world and keep us Free.
The Texican.
God Family America and Freedom the only choice at any cost.
at February 11, 2007 5:45 PM
"If only Le Pen could disappear, so that some of his misguised supporters would move to Sarkozy or to Philippe de Villiers, who represents those with the clearest sense of Islam and of what must be done, and who has been intellectually, and morally, impeccable."
I disagree - sarkosky and this goes for all of the main straem parties in Europe will NEVER rise to the Islamic challenge. Hugh you will wait forever on them and I also disagree with your use of the word "misguided" - I think most new right wing supporters know exactly what they are doing - they are forceing the current ruling parties to face the Islamic problem rather than appease it.
It will take the masses voting in an Extreem right wing party such as Le Penns in France or the BNP in Britain to cause the Paradigm Shift in thinking that is necessary.
It is happening - this week the BNP took second place to Blairs Labour party in a by election with 37% of the vote - normal people are begining to see that they have been sold out and there is a re-alignment of political thought on the horizon - not before time
at February 11, 2007 6:51 PM
When France falls the British raise the drawbridge secure behind the twenty two mile wide moat.
And France always falls, and Britain always prevails after saving France.
Unfortunately Blair has the drawbridge down for all, but his days are numbered. The fact that the leader of the opposition was a teen pot smoker will not save the Labour party.
Posted by: Mert at February 11, 2007 6:53 PM
Rougie - I well understand the sense of desperation and that only the right-wing parties are even addressing the threat. All I am saying is that vigilance is required. The good folks who desire to save Europe need to be vigilant about possible nefarious sub-agendas of those parties. That's all. I don't think that any reasonable person, having witnessed history, could disagree. But I also agree with you that it is unfair to jump to unwarranted assumptions about where those parties are coming from. Unfortunately, it has come to this. If well meaning persons remain vigilant and vocal, then I have confidence that modern Europeans will steer things in the right direction. But there are certainly good reasons for the outsider to see the overall problem and still be somewhat concerned and yet hopeful that the voice of reason in Europe will prevail in what is certain to be an extraordinarily trying time.
Posted by: Caroline at February 11, 2007 7:04 PM
Oh my God, we can't let them target France; they'll surrender in a heart beat !
Posted by: Jeff at February 11, 2007 7:34 PM
France, and the word bold, in one sentence, is unheard of in these times.
Posted by: taowarrior at February 11, 2007 7:42 PM
For those who fear the so called "far right parties", they need to re-adjust their sights. The left as aligned themselves with the islamists. The left does not realize that they will be the first targets of the islamist when they think they are in control. The leftist Democrats are still thinking pre 9-10. The Democrats have failed to see the threat even after a decade of attacks in the 90's and the three thousand deaths on 9-11. For all the warts that Bush and the Republicans have shown, they at least recognize some enemey in islam. l am sure many understand islam to be evil cult, but due to pressure of the pc leftist media, cannot call a spade a spade. Look at the attacks from the media and world when Bush identified Iran,Iraq,and North Korea as axis of evil. the left does not want you to judge, does not want you to use your common sense. The left elites have blinders, that l do not know what it will take for them to wake up, but perhaps on their way to the chopping blocks by the islamist they will realize how wrong they were all these years.
Posted by: ZenaWarriorPrincess at February 11, 2007 8:08 PM
Rougie - I didn't say "to wait patiently for a solution to pop out of the clouds". I said that "vigilance is required". And most of all I expressed sympathy for those who might be Jewish or Hindu or Sikh and quite possibly rightly concerned about getting squeezed from either direction. If you can't understand or acknowledge their legitimate concerns as well, then why should I care about your particular concerns either? We're all in this thing together after all.
Posted by: Caroline at February 11, 2007 9:09 PM
Me thinks France is fighting the "Wrong War" again.
"Sitzkrieg" or "Drole de guerre" part II.
We all know how this is going to end....
Posted by: greatcometof1577 at February 11, 2007 9:16 PM
Dear Texican,
"be frightened........for you, your familly's and America's very survival."
"Representative Tom Tancredo.........is our current best bet.............."
Amen to that!
I've already donated to Team Tancredo!
Posted by: LoneRanger at February 11, 2007 10:21 PM
One straw n the wind in the UK: an article in the Observer, last week attacking the preachers in Saudi subsidised mosques who promote intolerance produced 5 letters this week, all of them criticising Muslims.When you remember that the Observer is the Sunday sister paper of the Guardian this is rather remarkable. One, from the editor of the Jewish 'Current Viewpoint' was of particular interest in showing how little attempt Muslims make to integrate:
"My greengrocer keeps Islam Radio on all day and has yet to learn more than a few words of English.I have tried to interest him and his family in listening to the BBC but to no avail. When he bought the shop, he removed vacuum-packed bacon, tinned ham and anything that offended him and his family, even though our neighbourhood is, I would venture, 80% white. He now refuses to stock the Jewish Chronicle.
My Algerian neighbours tell me they will only watch al-Jazeera and the Islam Channel. When I asked my neighbour's wife to be my guest at 'My Fair Lady' in Drury lane, she recoiled as if I had asked her to a wrestling match. I do fear a parallel culture emerging in this country.
Carol Gould,
editor
Current Viewpoint."
Other correspondents suggested that oil and arms sales had much to do with our tolerance of Saudi funded mosques and Islamic centres: that the Muslim Council of Britain, a writer suspected, contained many closet political Islamists: that no British politicians had the courage to stand up and denounce intolerant attitudes about which Muslim parents seemed curiously unconcerned being taught to their children. Only one letter, from a Muslim, accused the press of hysteria and vilification of Muslims. Although still terrified of being labelled 'Islamophobic' I think the liberal left in the UK is becoming fed up with the increasingly outrageous behaviour of the Muslim community.
Posted by: wallyUK at February 12, 2007 1:13 AM
If France were to fall to islam, the world would be in much more danger than it is in now. Easy access to it's vast nuclear industry would put all of europe in peril the second it would fall. It must not be allowed to fall.
Posted by: Islofob IS-1 at February 12, 2007 1:29 AM
When do you think France will fall, I will tell you when, in 10 years if the current situation stays the same with Muslim still being seen as a religion of peace. But even the left is starting to see what a blatent lie that is. So what happens next, well I expect that the values of the 5th Republic are going to get rammed down the Islamics throats and if they don't like it they are going to be told where to go.
France has the largest population of secular Arabs, doo not forget that, and who is the best placed to fight Islam in regards to hearts and minds, ex-Muslims. Yeah its going to be bad, but as long as Sarkozy wins then I think there is hope.
As for these arrogant butchers trying to influence the French election, they already have, Sarkozy is well ahead, thank you shitheads.
Hugh, I think that Sarkozy does understand Islam, he is setting them a bit of a trap.
Posted by: Daffersd at February 12, 2007 4:10 AM
...Al Qaeda?....don't hear much from Osama these days, everything seems to flow from Al Zawahiri..I wish I could see a more visible effort is locating and destroying the leadership of the terrorist networks....
....Like the "war on drugs" in the United States, which is not really working....we see a lot of petty underlings getting caught...but the drugs keep flowing....The problem is the people who use the drug....you do something to get the people to believe in life more that the drug, you might win...
...In Islam the drug it is the Qur'an....get rid of it and you might begin to win....
Posted by: exsgtbrown at February 12, 2007 6:47 AM
Franze:
I am happy to see a post from you, as I haven't noticed any of late. Just to be sure I understand your point, are you saying that there is evidence of collusion between the Spanish left and the Islamists shortly before the elections that brought Zapatero to power to ensure a Socialist victory?
Initial government/police reaction to the Madrid train bombings was that it was likely the work of ETA, but then I'm sure ETA has friendly relations with A-Q/Islamists.
As for any hope of France standing firm against terrorism... ...I have my very grave doubts, at least about anyone other than Sarkozy. French pols, left or right, have so far shown themselves to be anything but unfriendly towards Islamists, whether Shia or Sunni.
Posted by: waterdragon52 at February 12, 2007 8:23 AM
Franze:
I am happy to see a post from you, as I haven't noticed any of late. Just to be sure I understand your point, are you saying that there is evidence of collusion between the Spanish left and the Islamists shortly before the elections that brought Zapatero to power to ensure a Socialist victory?
Initial government/police reaction to the Madrid train bombings was that it was likely the work of ETA, but then I'm sure ETA has friendly relations with A-Q/Islamists.
Posted by: waterdragon52 [TypeKey Profile Page] at February 12, 2007 08:23 AM
Yes, and it can happen in France with Royal that is agreed with the illegal immigration and their regulation.
In addition we have known that in Britain one of the suicide worked for the MI6, what is the meaning about that?
We live in times, where everything seems a conspirancy, but I donīt know what to think, and less in politics.
at February 12, 2007 2:10 PM
Hello , where were you guys when Moslems were bombing su to bits in Kashmir ? USA supported pakistan and is directly responsible for bombay blasts and 4 wars against India , and also the plight of the Kashmiri Pandits.To tell the truth ,I am enjoying the suffering the West is undergoing especially the Brits who adored indian muslims.
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