Cancel my vacation plans:
FRENCH intelligence has produced a dossier alleging that al-Qaeda plans an attack on the country during forthcoming presidential elections.
The Arabic-language al-Hayat daily newspaper has reported there were "several indications of a plot to copy the Spanish scenario in France", a reference to the explosions that rocked Madrid in March 2004.
The London-based daily quoted mainly "messages posted on internet sites close to al-Qaeda carrying threats against France, accompanied by pictures from the campaigns for the presidential elections", which are slated for April and May. source
So, will France try to appease the Al Qaeda (and its allies), or is the country looking for some payback after the Paris riots? If DGSE did
this to a bunch of unarmed hippies on a sailboat, imagine what they might do to actual terrorists if they're let off the leash?