Police in Paris halted traffic on a commuter train line for about an hour Thursday evening after the United States warned French officials of a possible bomb attack, police said. Authorities found nothing suspicious and lifted the alert around 9:30 p.m. The RER-A line was stopped and passengers were evacuated while officials conducted inspections of the rails and stations, authorities said. Police headquarters in Paris said the CIA alerted it to the threat of a bomb attack directed at the underground train lines or the Metro subway system. In Washington, an administration source said the U.S. government told the French government about a nonspecific but credible threat of a bomb attack. The source did not know if the information was corroborated but did say it came in within the past several days and was collected internationally. A senior U.S. official said the American government passed on to French authorities information of "uncertain reliability" regarding a threat. The United States could not verify the information but informed France because "it was time sensitive," the official said. The French response to the information was based on what the French government felt was necessary, the U.S. official said.
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