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| Fighting Terror The French Way |
| 2004-03-04 |
| OK, so you thought the last one was a troll job, eh! Well, How about some good frog bashing? A shady terror group is demanding $5 million from the French government - otherwise it will detonate ten bombs hidden around the French railway network. How does the government plan to combat this new threat? By paying them off, of course. Should have tried this one with the Germans in ’40. Could have saved some French lives. To prove there is a trolling aspect but that even the worst trolls can frog bash with the best, Le Monde via the Guardian provides greater detail: ’Le Monde said there had been two failed attempts to pay the cash. A police source said: "If they blow up a piece of railway track and a TGV high-speed train runs over it, the carnage will be monstrous.’ |
| Posted by:Mr. Davis |
| #6 RC That was after they had run up the white flag. Todays French would have offered cash as soon as Hitler invaded Norway. |
| Posted by: Mr. Davis 2004-3-4 10:24:07 PM |
| #5 Should have tried this one with the Germans in ’40. Er, they DID. Remember the Vichy? They were the Nazi's whores up until the absolute last second; the only reason the Germans finally turned on them was French dithering (of course!) over what to do after French North Africa had been taken by the Allies. |
| Posted by: Robert Crawford 2004-3-4 9:47:20 PM |
| #4 Let's all get a piece of that. Hey, I'd quit saying nasty things about the French if they would pay me even half that much. |
| Posted by: whitecollar redneck 2004-3-4 8:50:13 PM |
| #3 Jacques' strategy: pay with Euros, then let your pathetic economic policy undermine the value of the Euro - ergo the value of the ransom! It's Simplisme! |
| Posted by: Frank G 2004-3-4 8:29:27 PM |
| #2 It's over. Time for the Sixth Republic. Is Sabine around? |
| Posted by: .com 2004-3-4 8:06:57 PM |
| #1 The organisation has also used personal columns in national daily Liberation - the in-house organ of France's far-left - to communicate with the government. Picked that publication to be sure someone in the government would read it. |
| Posted by: GK 2004-3-4 7:51:13 PM |