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| Security alert as Islamists theaten Paris mayor |
| 2008-01-11 |
| Paris mayor Bertrand Delanoe has been given extra security protection after an Islamist website used by Al-Qaeda members listed him as a target, police said on Wednesday. A police source said Delanoe's protection had been "slightly reinforced", although he said the "threats are not specific and do not come from a site linked directly to Al-Qaeda." The Socialist mayor, who is strongly tipped for reelection in March, said he was informed on Saturday of the threat, picked up by a US agency that monitors Al-Qaeda messages on the Internet. It lists Paris and its mayor as targets for attacks, with the aim of provoking the downfall of President Nicolas Sarkozy. |
| Posted by:Seafarious |
| #9 Dog bites man. |
| Posted by: Excalibur 2008-01-11 14:28 |
| #8 Ryge, the perp was an out-of-job arab muslim programmer, creepy-looking enough that I once found his pic in an ugly people website. By the way, one rightwing nickname for the homosexual delanoë (one really despisable french pol from the worst socialist tripe) is "la trouée de l'islam", or "la percée de l'islam", that is "the breakthrough of islam/the (woman) stabbed by islam". Hé hé. |
| Posted by: anonymous5089 2008-01-11 11:27 |
| #7 Remember that the French, unlike some others, have no sense of humor about terrorists or "Asians", and will imprison the former for many years and kick out the latter in large numbers if provoked. The one exception is that if they are destroying their own ghettos, the French will let them. |
| Posted by: Anonymoose 2008-01-11 09:27 |
| #6 Is this really news? News would be: "Islamists Say Nothing Threatening to Paris Mayor" |
| Posted by: Captain Lewis 2008-01-11 08:09 |
| #5 He's already been attacked once: (In 2002) Delanoe was stabbed by a deranged homophobe as he presided over an all-night cultural party at city hall. He was rushed to hospital suffering a single stab wound to his abdomen. Doctors at Pitie-Salpetriere hospital operated on Delanoe for more than three hours. He would spend nearly a month in hospital. |
| Posted by: ryuge 2008-01-11 07:15 |
| #4 Red Ken must be next on their list. |
| Posted by: Black Bart Clomock6784 2008-01-11 07:06 |
| #3 Burning cars is no longer enough? |
| Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2008-01-11 05:39 |
| #2 ....."threats are not specific and do not come from a site linked directly to Al-Qaeda." Angry Huguenots most likely. One can never be entirely sure. |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2008-01-11 01:01 |
| #1 The crocodile wants to eat a leftie first, whenever expedient! |
| Posted by: twobyfour 2008-01-11 00:13 |