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To: Proud_Infidel who wrote (846)	9/14/2006 9:30:01 AM
From: Proud_Infidel	Respond to of 20106

France reacts cautiously to Queda terror threat AFP via The Tocqueville Connection ^ \| 09/14/2006 adetocqueville.com PARIS, Sept 14, 2006 (AFP) - France reacted cautiously on Thursday to news that a radical Algerian Islamist group had joined the Al-Qaeda network and had singled out the country as a target. In a video message released on the fifth anniversary of the September 11 attacks, Osama bin Laden's right-hand man Ayman al-Zawahiri announced that the Salafist Group for Preaching and Combat (GSPC) was now part of Al-Qaeda. "We pray to God that they will be a thorn in the side of the American and French crusaders and their allies," Zawahiri said. "This should be a source of chagrin, frustration and sadness for the apostates (of the regime in Algeria), the treacherous sons of (former colonial power) France," Zawahiri said of the GSPC's links to Al-Qaeda. The French interior ministry said the tape "confirms our evaluation of the terrorist threat against our country and others." "Al-Qaeda acknowledges the Salafist Group for Preaching and Combat as one of its components: that membership was announced in a statement in on September 11, 2003 and was followed by other threats against France," an official said. France lifted its terrorism alert level to "red", the third highest on a four-colour scale, after last July's bombings in London. The country has come under fire from Islamic radicals over a 2004 ban on religious insignia -- including the Muslim headscarf -- in state schools, as well as for its support for Algeria's secular regime. The GSPC last year singled out France as its "enemy number one" and issued a call for action against the country. The armed radical group was created from a split in the Armed Islamic Group (GIA), the main force in Algeria's long insurgency which was also responsible for a series of bombings in France in 1995.