Originally posted by lightseeker
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They might have left it at that except for the invasion of Iraq, then suddenly they were given a "reason" to escalate their attacks against American
interests here and abroad.
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i am sorry... they have a reason to escalate their attacks?....
They never needed any reason to "escalate their attacks"....
Osama Bin Laden himself has stated that even when the U.S. was helping Afghanistan fight against the Russians, they were already developing plans to
attack the west once the Russians left, the U.S. just couldn't see into the future and realize that many of those people we helped back in the 70s
and 80s would turn on us because they see every dhimmi as an enemy of their extremist view of Islam....
BTW, perhaps you should do some research on the attempts by Islamic terrorists to attack France and other countries which were so critical of the war
in Iraq....
One more thing, France is not the only country which is finally waking up to the fact that Islamic extremists are planing on attacking them even if
they were critical about the war, or if they met the demands of the Muslim extremists for certain countries to pull out their soldiers out of Iraq,
such as what happened in Spain.
Here is an article from 2002 when French authorities discovered Islamic extremists were planning chemical attacks on France...
This article shows that even before the war in Iraq Islamic extremists were planning to attack European cities...
Suspected Islamic extremists in French court, links to chemical plot
AFP, January, 2004
PARIS (AFP) — Six suspected Islamic extremists including the imam of a Lyon area mosque appeared before anti-terrorist judges amid allegations they
knew about plans for a chemical attack in France in 2002.
findarticles.com...
Before 2002, and after 2002 and to this day similar plots have been discovered where Islamic extremists were planning terrorist attacks in European
countries...
BTW, look how long it took for the french courts to actually find guilty the Islamic extremists who planned these attacks for 2002....
French court sentences 25 Islamic extremists
By Craig S. Smith The New York Times
Published: June 14, 2006
PARIS A French court on Wednesday sentenced 25 Islamic extremists to prison terms ranging from six months to 10 years for a 2002 plot to mount
terrorist attacks in the French capital.
Prosecutors charged the men with planning attacks against several sites, including the Eiffel Tower in Paris. One of the men, Menad Benchellali, 32,
was charged with trying to assemble chemical or biological weapons at his mother's apartment in a suburb of Lyon.
www.iht.com...
Here is another such planned chemical attack on France in 2005.
Zarqawi Said Planning Chemical Attack in Europe
Jordanian terrorist Abu Musab al-Zarqawi is believed to be planning a chemical weapons strike in Europe, Agence France-Presse reported today (see GSN,
March 1).
“We in Europe have been afraid that a big bang is coming sometime and that Zarqawi is planning it,” an official with Germany’s BND intelligence
agency said in the April edition of the German magazine Cicero.
www.nti.org...
You have to scroll down almost at the end to find that article.
Anyways, the same thing has happened in Germany, Spain and other European countries...
People really need to stop trying to condone what the Islamic extremists are doing...