This amazes and baffles me. I don't know why Al Qaeda and the Algerian insurgents wouldn't at least have more hesitation about targeting France than this. I know Algeria hates France for suppressing Islamic insurgency--and for having once possessed Algeria as a territory--but the fact is France itself --at least its population--is, of all the European countries, the most Islamic-heavy. I think nearly 10% of its population is Muslim now, and that number grows every day. Islam is France's second-biggest religion, and it's increasingly closing in on Catholic market-share every day.

The more I think about it, though, nothing A-Q and its allies do makes real sense. And of course they'd look upon their Islamic counterparts in France, and look upon all of America, as having sold out to western infidel culture. What despicable logic from despicable terrorists.
birdgirl73 Reviewed by birdgirl73 on . The French may have to fight after all. http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060915/ap_on_re_eu/france_al_qaida_video PARIS - Al-Qaida has for the first time announced a union with an Algerian insurgent group that has designated France as an enemy, saying they will act together against French and American interests. Current and former French officials specializing in terrorism said Thursday that an al-Qaida alliance with the Salafist Group for Call and Combat, known by its French initials GSPC, was cause for concern. "We take Rating: 5