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Frenchies: ''We won't be intimidated...''
France said Friday it would not bow to terrorism and demanded that Yemen to catch and punish those responsible for an attack on the oil tanker Limburg. "France will not be intimidated," said Catherine Colonna, the spokeswoman for French President Jacques Chirac.When did that start? She also said that a claim of responsibility for the attack reportedly sent by a militant Muslim group to a pan-Arab newspaper "gives the impression that an American ship was originally targeted." "Mahmoud, there ain't no Merkins around here!" "Then boom a Frenchie." "Do I still get the virgins?" The ship was towed into a northeastern Yemen port Friday, after investigators said metal and plastic pieces found on the deck suggested the ship was rammed by a smaller craft. American officials said Sunday's blast was an act of terrorism most likely carried out by people with links to al-Qaida. "It's become clear it's an act of terrorism," a U.S. intelligence official in Washington said Thursday. Unless you're an Arab. Then it was probably the Mossad... Posted by: Fred Pruitt 2002-10-11 |
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