On Monday, French police arrested a 53-year-old man suspected of links to a bomb threats including one Friday at a Paris railway hub, an official with knowledge of the investigation said on condition of anonymity. The suspect, who was not identified, was detained southwest of the capital for possible links to a phone-in threat at the Saint-Lazare train station.<\/p>\n
French authorities recorded nine bomb alerts in the capital in September, including two at the Eiffel Tower – a threefold increase from a year earlier. No explosives were found.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
Probably to slow the response time of the police when there’s a real bomb. Or to determine the response time to set fuses. When I was in Paris twenty five years ago, the tour guide told us that 10 bombs went off in Paris every day – I don’t know if that was true, but even one bomb every day was too many. I remember metal detectors at department stores. So the French are pretty accustomed to this stuff, I suppose. Probably better than Americans, anyway.<\/p>\n
We have a tendency to forget about stuff that doesn’t happen in our state or our town and enough time has passed. <\/p>\n
When I lived in Aschaffenburg (near Frankfort), as the senior resident in our Army family housing unit, I had to run a guard roster (of course, with no equipment or weapons) around our building (the building was outside the gate of the nearest Kasserne) after Baader Meinhoff killed an airman, drove his car onto the airbase and blew it up in the PX parking lot. Even something that close didn’t affect people enough to be diligent guarding the building. <\/p>\n
AP says;<\/p>\n
Security officials say terrorists may be plotting attacks in Europe with assault weapons on public places, similar to the deadly 2008 shooting spree in Mumbai, India. European officials have provided no details about specific targets.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
That’d be flashy, but ABC says that’s not how they think it will go down;<\/p>\n
One scenario authorities fear is a repeat of the 1985 attack on the Rome and Vienna airports, when Palestinian extremists threw grenades and opened fire on travelers waiting at ticket counters injuring 140 and killing 19, including a small child. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n
That sounds about like al Qaeda’s speed. A group of people who are most likely unarmed in a confined, enclosed space with no place to go once the shooting starts. High probability of kids getting gunned down. That sounds like those cowards. Of course, it’s unlikely that they’ll hit the US or target Americans so near to the elections. al Qaeda has their man in the White House and Congress is filled with cowards…why would they want to screw that up? <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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