Sunday, February 18, 2007

Intelligence VS. Politics (Madrid Redux VIA French Presidential Elections)

French intelligence reports leaked to Le Monde and Al Hayat are pointing to possible attacks during April 2007 to May 2007 or during the French Presidential Elections.

For the time being, the French do not have any information on concrete preparations of attacks. Recent reports testify to the constant attention paid to Al Qaeda. Two threats are mentioned. First threats appeared in December 2005, relates to threats of attacks. Second threats appeared during autumn 2006 and relates to planning a wave of suicide attacks against a European country. Threats would not come from active cells or a sleeper cells, rather supporting cells would be turned into active cells via Internet. The French, however, have recently noticed a frequent diffusion of satellite views obtained through Google Earth of France.

Al Qaeda related websites is calling for the attacks in order to change French intelligence and politics in the same manner that the Madrid attacks changed Spanish intelligence and politics.

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