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Africa: North
France is 'enemy No 1'
2005-09-28
An Algerian Islamist organisation, the Salafist Group for Preaching and Combat (GSPC), has issued a call for action against France, which it describes as "enemy No 1", intelligence officials said on Tuesday. "The only way to teach France to behave is jihad and the Islamic martyr," said the group's leader, Abu Mossab Abdelwadoud, also known as Abdelmalek Dourkdal, in an internet message earlier this month. He was quoted as saying: "France is our enemy No 1, the enemy of our religion, the enemy of our community."
Must be because of France's strong support for the war in Iraq.
France was mentioned 15 times in the text and the Algerian government was also targeted, said the officials. Nine people detained in a series of raids west of Paris on Monday are suspected members of the GSPC, officials have said. They were being questioned for a second day on Tuesday at the headquarters of the DST domestic intelligence agency.
Interior minister Nicolas Sarkozy said on Monday the risk of terrorist attack in France is "at a very high level... There are cells operating on our territory". The GSPC was created from a split in the Armed Islamic Group, the main force in Algeria's long insurgency, which was also responsible for a series of bombings in France in 1995.
IIRC, France foiled a GIA plot prior to 9/11 in which the terrs were planning to hijack a plane and fly it into the Eiffel Tower. There was a bit of bloody business in the plane on a runway that ended with a bunch of dead hijackers.
Posted by:anonymous5089

#8  Yeah, I've often felt that way.
Posted by: DMFD   2005-09-28 22:24  

#7  Don't underestimate the French when it comes down to low-down throat cutting. Remember that a goodly number of their rough boys come from Corsica and have a rep close to Sicilians for dirt dog mean.

This is not to say it would be official policy, more like a shadow war. But it would be right nasty.
Posted by: Anonymoose   2005-09-28 13:37  

#6  Someone still remembers the Algerian war back in the 50s it looks like.
Posted by: mmurray821   2005-09-28 11:12  

#5  Nice rant C-Low
Posted by: Steve   2005-09-28 10:30  

#4  I know exactly how France became #1.

You can only terrorize the weak! Little Satan is a little to satanic in killing her enemies lately the Big Satan who after 8yrs of Clinton gays in the military, Somalia retreat, Cole, 93'World Trade, Numerous CIA agents killed around the muslim world, 2 Embasy bombings, attempted millinium plot, damm I can keep going to --- the terrrorist had pretty much put the US on the #1 spot for the weak, but then came the Bushitler and well 01' was the last attack on the US. Better to pick on our weaker allies, philipines, spain, ehh britian suprised em, than to pick on the great satan and turn the vice down another couple of turns, hell its damm damm tight right now, so much I can hear the screams over hear in the states. If we just had a media in this nation that would accept the fact that 1) they are americans 2) america is not really the big Satan 3) when someone tells you they want to kill you and your family you dont try to figure out WHY you just put a 22hallow in his ear and then see who else agrees with him.

We dont need them to love us or even like us just simple respect us or if nessecary Fear us.
Posted by: C-Low   2005-09-28 10:01  

#3  Why bother. Soon the muslims will demographically win Le Harem France.
Posted by: ed   2005-09-28 09:31  

#2  Ah, why not indulge them further, offer more indirect political support and just watch and see how bold the jihadis become. It's hard to see how France earned the #1 spot though. Perhaps it was fixed with the judges as with iceskating. I suppose this would be seen by some there as being 110% the fault of Bush. Maybe this will help the French government wake up to face the facts of the threat to all civilized nations and especially it's EU partners.
Posted by: MunkarKat   2005-09-28 09:29  

#1  Damn it man, I knew we should have signed Osama's peace deal last year. Now we are left with nothing to fire back with except cheese curls.

Yours,

Jacques C.
Posted by: Captain America   2005-09-28 09:18  

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