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Post by Moses on Jun 21, 2005 19:37:00 GMT -5
INTERNATIONAL 06.22.2005 Wednesday - ISTANBUL 03:32 Sarkozy: I am a Friend of Turkey, but Against Turkey's EU Membership By Ali Ihsan Aydin Published: Tuesday 21, 2005 zaman.com The French ruling party Union for Popular Movement (UMP) leader and Interior Minister Nicolas Sarkozy said he had no problem with Turks; however, he absolutely opposed Turkey's European Union (EU) membership. Reportedly, Sarkozy meeting with representatives of the prominent Muslim federations in France before the election of the French Council of Muslim Faith (CFCM) said that since his endeavors regarding Turkey's EU bid had disturbed French citizens of Turkish origin: "I am a friend of Turkey, but I don't want Turkey, which is an Asian country, to enter the EU." "Privileged partnership" should be suggested to Ankara as an alternative to full membership according to Sarkozy who supports the case that if Turkey accesses the Union, the EU's doors will be opened to Israel and North African countries as well. Organizing the "yes for the constitution, no for Turkey" campaigns during the EU constitution referendum, Sarkozy claimed "no" votes would have risen to 65 percent if he had not rejected Turkey's membership. Meanwhile, the new French Foreign Minister Philippe Douste-Blazy said in a statement to French radio on June 19 that accession talks with Turkey would not be delayed. Following the EU summit's failure due to the budget issue, Britain has been blamed for dragging the EU into a crisis; however, former French President Valery Giscard d'Estaing advocated that the French public ignited the crisis by refusing the EU constitution. D'Estaing blaming Paris said to French Inter radio, "You cannot cause the crisis and then investigate its consequences." Leading the convention preparing the European Constitution, D'Estaing emphasized, "If France had not said "no" on May 29, the current crisis would have been averted." Douste-Blazy, on the other hand, blamed Blair for the EU crisis and accused Britain of "national egoism". France and The Netherlands as the founding members of the EU strongly refused the EU Constitution in the referendums that were held three days apart.
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Post by Moses on Jun 21, 2005 19:48:40 GMT -5
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Post by Moses on Jun 25, 2005 6:32:30 GMT -5
This wasn't covered in US media, of course, but Sarkozy sent a couple of hundred of his police, armed in riot gear and bullet proof vests, to storm the buildings in the Muslim community, which of course was covered by the media and with him as Herr Interior Police Minister. It wasn't an appropriate means to find the perps whose stray bullet had hit a child, and was clearly posturing of a madman. His comments that he was going to "clean up" the neighborhood "kosher-style" are referenced obliquely below: washingtontimes.com/upi/20050624-055437-1824r.htmUnited Press International Jun. 24, 2005 at 11:51AM Police Friday arrested the suspected killer of an 11-year-old boy, in an incident that sparked furor in France. Police told French media Friday one of two brothers arrested in Paris was suspected in the shooting death of the boy in the city's suburbs. The incident sparked outrage in the country and triggered further controversy when Interior Minister Nicholas Sarkozy vowed to clean up the gritty suburb of La Courneuve "Kosher" style.
The remarks are not particularly apt because many of those living in France's housing projects are first- and second-generation ethnic Arabs, who are usually Muslim. Sarkozy has vowed to return to La Courneuve next week to meet with youths living there and to launch a policy to reduce crime. [i.e.: photo op] Copyright 2005 United Press International Copyright ? 1999 - 2005 News World Communications, Inc. www.washingtontimes.com/newstrack/20050624-055437-1824r.htm
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Post by Moses on Jun 25, 2005 16:17:01 GMT -5
www.islamonline.org/English/News/2005-06/25/article04.shtmlSarkozy has pursued the original Bush/Grover Norquist strategy, supporting right wing theocratic Muslims and trying to purge liberal/moderate muslims from the political apparatus. Sarkozy was one of the staunch supporters for establishing the CFCM and supervised its first election in April 2003.
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Post by Moses on Jun 26, 2005 23:32:17 GMT -5
Sarkozy Makes His Move: Newsweek. This didn't load properly on my computer so I couldn't read it. It wouldn't surprise me if the neocons at Newsweek are promoting Sarkozy. The neocons seem to be fans of his. The NY Times reporter who reported on the cabinet changes was hysterical because the very right wing Sarkozy wasn't made PM. But in fact, he was offered the job but felt more comfortable as Police State Minister. ("Interior" Minister) and had chosen that job himself.
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Post by Moses on Jun 26, 2005 23:46:38 GMT -5
July 4/11, 2005 / Vol. 166 No. 1 The Right Stuff
With an eye on 2007's presidential race, Nicholas Sarkozy takes a hard-line on crime
BY JAMES GRAFFSarkozy has moved right on law and orderHaving laid low while President Jacques Chirac took the heat for losing France's referendum on the European constitution, Nicolas Sarkozy is back, in the guise of a self-styled crimebuster. After an 11-year-old boy was killed by a stray bullet while washing the family car in La Courneuve, a desolate banlieue outside Paris, France's newly reappointed Interior Minister vowed that "the thugs will disappear" and that he'd "cleanse" the quarter. [And went in with a couple of hundred police dressed to the gills in riot garb and had the media showing them knocking down doors and such, even though this was no way to actually catch the perps] Two days later, Sarkozy decried that a man who had been granted early release from life imprisonment is now implicated in the June murder of a 37-year-old jogger. "The judge must pay for his mistake," [How interesting that this is exactly what Delay and Cornyn and others were making the same statements here!] Sarkozy fumed before an assembly of gendarmes at the Interior Ministry. The combative tone suggested to many that Sarkozy, who as head of the governing Union for a Popular Movement (UMP) is already eyeing the 2007 presidential elections, is gunning for the hard-right voters of Jean-Marie Le Pen's National Front. If so, he'll have to contend with his own government first. Justice Minister Pascal Clément noted that "the law, all of the law, was respected" in the prisoner's early release, and Prime Minister Dominique de Villepin lectured that "nothing should put in question the independence of the judiciary." For his part, the judge in question accused Sarkozy of "demagoguery," and the Superior Council of Magistrates filed a formal complaint with Chirac. UMP parliamentary deputy Jean-Michel Fourgous said the intense reaction shows that for Sarkozy, "the threat comes from Chirac's people, not the National Front." But it's with Chirac's people that Sarkozy governs. "He knows that his brand of economic liberalism isn't popular in France, so he's compensating with a dose of moral conservativism," says Stéphane Rozès, director of the French polling firm CSA Opinion. "But he can't go much further in that direction without having to choose between the government and his own ambitions." [This article doesn't mention his insane tirade against "the left" given in tandem w/ Karl Roves similar tirade-- but Sarkozy was more hyperbolic and venomous-- he shares with Bush & Hitler a manic egomania and narsicism] ©TIME. Printed on Monday, June 27, 2005
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Post by Moses on Jul 5, 2005 2:30:33 GMT -5
July 5, 2005
French Minister Converts Crisis Into Fuel for a Presidential RaceBy CRAIG S. SMITH LA COURNEUVE, France - Defending his headline-grabbing style, France's would-be president, Nicolas Sarkozy, on a late June day faced a roomful of impatient, sometimes angry residents of this poor Parisian suburb where he had come championing law and order after an 11-year-old boy was killed by stray gunfire. reviewing an honor guard last month in Paris. "That a politician wants more supporters, where is the problem?" he asked a young man who had suggested that Mr. Sarkozy, currently the interior minister, was only trying to advance his chances for the 2007 election for president. After driving the man deeper into his seat with a signature jackhammer speaking style, Mr. Sarkozy concluded, "But if you want to vote for me, I won't stop you." The larger question in France these days is who is going to stop Mr. Sarkozy. The nakedly ambitious former mayor of Neuilly-sur-Seine, an upper-crust suburb of Paris, has bolted clear of all political rivals, opinion polls indicate, in his race to replace President Jacques Chirac. "For the moment, there is no credible candidate to stand in his way," said Pascal Perrineau, director of the Study Center of French Political Life. Mr. Sarkozy has darted into the political breach created by the French electorate's rejection of a constitution for Europe in May with a fast-talking populist platform focused on controlling immigration, cutting unemployment and fighting crime. "We have a president who is completely nonexistent on the internal scene, and we have a fairly weak prime minister," said Roland Cayrol, research director at the National Foundation of Political Sciences and director of the CSA Polling Institute. "Now we have Sarkozy, who is more than a vice president - he is almost a co-prime minister." Mr. Chirac was deeply wounded by the failed constitutional referendum, which was largely seen as a plebiscite on his troubled administration. His popularity has fallen below that of any recent French president - 21 percent, according to a recent poll. Mr. Chirac's protégé and current prime minister, Dominique de Villepin, is considered elitist and lacks a defined constituency because he has never run for elected office. No other center-right politician has anything close to Mr. Sarkozy's support. Mr. Sarkozy has managed to play to multiple constituencies, striking a chord with conservative French by speaking out against Turkey's proposed membership in the European Union, while pleasing the immigrant population with talk of affirmative action. At the same time, the French left is divided following a split over the European constitution. Mr. Sarkozy's hard-line law-and-order campaign is even picking up supporters from the far-right National Front. Mr. Sarkozy's energetic response to the killing in La Courneuve and an unusual media focus on his high-profile and now troubled marriage has allowed him to dominate magazine and newspaper covers recently. On one recent day, Le Monde ran a front-page cartoon in which Mr. Sarkozy was depicted as a famous French cartoon character whose comic ambition to become "Caliph in the place of the Caliph" is now a common French expression. Articles about him dominated the national news pages and the editorial page, while Mr. Chirac was relegated to Page 29. The coverage of his marital problems has broken ground in France, where the private lives of politicians have long been considered out of bounds. Even that is unlikely to hurt him, political analysts say. "If she leaves him, he'll be seen as the devastated guy and it will show he is human," said Anita Hauser, author of two books about Mr. Sarkozy. He has adeptly outmaneuvered Mr. Chirac, who forced Mr. Sarkozy out of the government last year when he took over leadership of Mr. Chirac's governing Union for a Popular Movement party, only to ask him back to help rescue his presidency during the crisis touched off by the referendum. Now Mr. Sarkozy not only leads the country's most powerful political party but also holds one of the most visible portfolios in the government, allowing him to speak out about hot-button issues in areas like justice, education and immigration. He recently outraged the legal profession by criticizing a judge for paroling a murderer who was later arrested in connection with the killing of a jogger. Mr. Chirac was forced to issue a statement assuring the country's top judges that his government would respect judicial independence. After the killing here in La Courneuve, Mr. Sarkozy came to the town and vowed to "clean out" its crime-ridden district of government-built housing projects where the victim, 11-year-old Sidi Ahmed, was shot in the heart and lung during a dispute between rival families. At a town hall meeting, he was initially met with boos from residents offended by his tough talk, arguing that it stigmatized a largely immigrant community already struggling against racial discrimination.But then he dominated the meeting with the forceful delivery of a multipoint plan to suppress crime in troubled neighborhoods and enlist the aid of big companies to hire local youths and of prestigious educational institutions to work with local schools. By the time he left, the crowd outside was mobbing him like he was a rock star.But many political analysts caution that as in the United States, early front-runners rarely finish first. The thing most likely to derail Mr. Sarkozy, several say, is Mr. Sarkozy himself. "He must tame his temperament," Mr. Perrineau said. "His very, very big appetite for power could backfire."
Copyright 2005 The New York Times Company
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Post by Moses on Jul 5, 2005 2:33:14 GMT -5
Sarkozy, as France's Interior Minister, now has access to and influence over European "Security". Germany took a pass on a meeting convened in France to discuss European Security, but the UK, Spanish, and Italian IM's were there: news.xinhuanet.com/english/2005-07/05/content_3176218.htm
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Post by Moses on Jul 5, 2005 2:41:56 GMT -5
AFX News Limited Former French minister Jack Lang intends to run in 2007 presidential elections 07.01.2005, 07:37 AM PARIS (AFX) - Socialist Party politician Jack Lang, who was formerly minister for culture and education, said he intends to stand in France's 2007 presidential elections. 'I will be one of the candidates on the list and Socialist Party members will, in a year's time, choose whom they think will be best to stand,' he told France 2 state television. Recent polls give Lang, 65, a big lead in public support over 72-year-old Chirac, whose recent backing of a referendum on an EU constitution was rebuffed by a 'non' vote. A TNS-Sofres survey published today said Lang and a former Socialist health minister, Bernard Kouchner, each have 48 pct support, while confidence in current President Jacques Chirac has slipped to 21 pct -- the lowest for a French head of state since polling began 30 years ago. Chirac has not yet said whether he will run for a third term as President. Lang has twice served as culture minister and twice as education minister during 1981-2002. db/rmb/wdb
Is 4% such a huge lead that the Times is justified in saying Sarkozy has no rivals? Nicolas Sarkozy 52% - 48% Jack LangNicolas Sarkozy 52% - 48% Jack Lang
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Post by Moses on Jul 5, 2005 20:57:07 GMT -5
Sarkozy says EU needs new ‘engine’
* Calls Franco-German alliance outdatedPARIS: French Interior Minister Nicolas Sarkozy declared the Franco-German alliance outdated on Tuesday and suggested five or six large states should take the lead in promoting European integration. Sarkozy, who has presidential ambitions and is also the number two in the conservative government, said he valued France’s postwar alliance with Germany but it was not enough to lead a European Union with 25 members. The Group of Five EU interior ministers, now meeting under his chairmanship in the French town of Evian, could be a model for a future “engine” of integration, he said. The group includes Britain, France, Germany, Italy and Spain. “In a Europe of six members, the engine was obviously Franco-German,” Sarkozy told Europe 1 radio. “A Europe of 25 needs an engine of five at first and probably six, with Poland.” Sarkozy has begun openly campaigning for the 2007 presidential race, in which two potential rivals - President Jacques Chirac and Prime Minister Dominique de Villepin - are closely identified with the Franco-German option. He has made his differences with Chirac over Europe increasingly clear since French voters rejected the EU’s constitution on May 29, saying the bloc should suspend further enlargement and repeating his opposition to Turkey’s entry bid. Sarkozy said the governing Union for a Popular Majority (UMP) party, which he leads, would hold a meeting in October to reconsider a European policy which has been based until now on exerting French influence through the link with Germany. The partnership of the two former rivals has been a cornerstone of both countries’ European policy since 1963. They consult each other constantly and their decisions often set the tone for EU action. reuters
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Post by Moses on Jul 5, 2005 21:10:18 GMT -5
Politician with pro-U.S. tilt steals media spotlight Paris, July. 6 (AP): For years, France's hottest politician has tapped the American political handbook for ideas on issues like affirmative action, the free market and 'zero tolerance' of crime. Now, two years before a presidential election in which he clearly intends to run, Interior Minister Nicolas Sarkozy, may be violating a cardinal rule of U.S. politics: Don't peak too soon. Sarkozy, a 50-year-old politician with Hungarian roots, has meticulously piled up posts that could serve as a springboard for a presidential bid. As well as France's top cop, he is the No. 2 Government official and the head of President Jacques Chirac's conservative party. He has served in the past as Finance Minister. ``Sarko,'' as he is known, draws praise as a new breed of energetic politician who wants to shake up France from top to bottom. Critics fault him as brazenly authoritarian, populist and a threat to the country's cherished social and welfare protections. In the fierce debate between Chirac and British Prime Minister Tony Blair over the right economic model for Europe, Sarkozy's beliefs appear to tend toward the ``Anglo-Saxon'' vision of open markets and competition as an engine for dynamism. But nothing's ever simple with this politician of paradox. He likes to press the flesh even as he ruffles feathers, he's a free-market advocate who vigorously defends French companies from foreign takeover, an opponent of mostly-Muslim Turkey's campaign to join the European Union who reaches out to France's Muslim community. He oozes ambition, while placing himself at the service of his party and the French citizenry. Chirac, 72, was once the political mentor to Sarkozy, who was a regular at the presidential Elysee Palace. Then, Sarkozy betrayed him, backing another candidate in the 1995 presidential race. The bad blood has simmered ever since. However, it was hard to ignore the popular Sarkozy when a new Government was formed in June, after the French shocked Europe, and weakened Chirac, by rejecting the EU Constitution in a May referendum. The No. 1 post of Prime Minister went to the man the President now considers his protege, Dominique de Villepin, a career diplomat, part-time poet and embodiment of the French intellectual elite _ in short, Sarko's opposite. Sarkozy was given the No. 2 job. But it is Sarkozy who is best placed to profit from the political dynamics. He is unencumbered by the demands of a Prime Minister seeking to lower France's chronic double-digit unemployment rate and safely back at a ministry he headed from 2002-2004 _ when his popularity soared amid a high-profile crackdown on crime. A month back on the job, Sarkozy has enjoyed near pop-star status. Last Thursday, six national publications ran his photo on their covers. He quickly grabbed the spotlight. With TV cameras in tow, Sarkozy twice visited the working class suburb of La Courneuve where a young boy was killed by a stray bullet, promising to ``clean up ... with a power sprayer.'' On every occasion, Sarkozy uses his rapid-fire repartee to sink opponents. While meeting on Tuesday with Interior Ministers from Europe's five big powers, Sarkozy took time out to insult the Opposition Socialists. ``The Socialist Party has proposed nothing. Nothing but nothing,'' he told Europe 1 radio. ``Flat brainwaves.'' Sarkozy is unrepentant about his high profile. ``When 'France Soir' (newspaper) puts me on the cover, sales soar by sixfold,'' the newsweekly Nouvel Observateur quoted him as saying in its latest issue. Sarkozy's challenge, political analysts say, will be to avoid miscalculations that could derail his ride to the top. ``Campaigns have life cycles, and you have to peak on election day,'' said Steven Ekovich, a political scientist at the American University of Paris. TV talk shows debate his criticism of judges who let a repeat offender out of jail. Left-leaning editorial writers blasted his tough talk to clean up La Courneuve. Even his marital woes have been deemed fair game despite a media tradition of ignoring politicians' personal lives. ``Chirac is facing a period of relative fragility, so he (Sarkozy) has been trying to get the advantage quickly,'' said Florence Haigel, of the Institute of Political Science. ``The risk is that that he may not last long-term.'' Sarkozy has been likened to former New York Mayor Rudolph Guiliani _ whose ``zero tolerance'' stand on crime became one of Sarkozy's buzzwords in his first stint as Interior Minister. He favours ``positive discrimination'' _ his translation of America's affirmative action _ to help integrate France's 5 million-strong Muslim community. He is unabashedly pro-American. By contrast, Villepin raised hackles in Washington during the run-up to the Iraq war: He was the face of French opposition at the United Nations to the U.S. call for military action to oust Saddam Hussein. ``If Americans could vote, I think they would vote Sarkozy,'' said Ekovich, the political scientist. (steven.ekovich@aup.fr) Note: Published December, 2001: Iran and the new threats in the Persian Gulf and Middle East since 9/11 / Steven Ekovich
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Post by Moses on Jul 6, 2005 17:58:25 GMT -5
Sarkozy calls on big five to drive EU 'engine'By John Thornhill in Paris and Sarah Laitner in Brussels >Published: July 6 2005 03:00 | Last updated: July 6 2005 03:00
Nicolas Sarkozy, France's interior minister and presidential contender, yesterday questioned one of the central pillars of his country's foreign policy, suggesting that the Franco-German "engine" was now insufficient to drive the enlarged European Union of 25 countries. Instead, Mr Sarkozy said that an inner core of five big EU countries comprising France, Germany, Britain, Italy and Spain should jointly drive the integration process."In a Europe of six members, the engine was obviously Franco-German. A Europe of 25 needs an engine of five at first and probably six, with Poland," he said in a radio interview. Mr Sarkozy's comments on a subject well outside his portfolio highlight how far the ambitious politician is laying out his vision for a post-Chirac France after presidential elections in 2007. Foreign policy has traditionally been the exclusive responsibility of the president. Jacques Chirac has jealously guarded this domain during his 10 years as president and has kept the Franco-German alliance at the heart of foreign policy. Mr Sarkozy, whom Mr Chirac forced out of government last year when he took the helm of the centre-right UMP party, has become increasingly outspoken on a range of policies since rejoining government last month. He has already declared that he would "cleanse" crime-ridden suburbs and ensure that judges paid for their mistakes, provoking howls of protests from the Parisian political class. [note editorial comment by FT: "Parisian political class": this is the way Sarkozy would want them described-- of course they themselves are part of a far more powerful political class, which supports Sarkozy and his asperations, though not in the interests of France] Hosting a meeting of interior ministers from the five biggest EU countries yesterday in Evian, Mr Sarkozy announced a joint agreement to crackdown on illegal immigration and people-smuggling."Our idea is simple: we think that foreigners with no right or entitlement to be in our countries should not stay. They are in breach of our laws," he said. "The solution is to send them home. So we have decided to combine our political and financial efforts and organise return flights for those foreigners whose residence papers are not in order." [Animosity toward immigrants-- always a winner, politically, with the right wing] The five countries agreed to work more closely on returning illegal immigrants to their home countries, as part of a drive to get tough on undocumented workers. Interior ministers also agreed to share more information on lost and forged documents in their efforts to share crime-fighting information within the EU.Mr Sarkozy called on the five countries to agree on common goals for controlled migration, one of the most controversial questions facing policy-makers. But member states jealously guard their right to determine policies on admitting economic migrants and setting immigration quotas. Find this article at: news.ft.com/cms/s/f13dab98-edb9-11d9-9ff5-00000e2511c8,ft_acl=,s01=1.html
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Post by Moses on Jul 7, 2005 7:23:25 GMT -5
AFX News Limited France's Villepin to announce measures in response to London explosions UPDATE 07.07.2005, 08:04 AM (Updates with comment from Sarkozy) PARIS (AFX) - Prime Minister Dominique de Villepin will shortly announce 'measures' to be taken by the French government following a series of explosions on the London transport system this morning, a spokesman said. The announcement will follow a meeting between de Villepin and interior minister Nicolas Sarkozy, defence minister Michele Alliot-Marie and foriegn affairs minister Philippe Douste-Blazy. Sarkozy told reporters that de Villepin would decide 'a certain number of specific measures.' vl/jad
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Post by Moses on Jul 9, 2005 2:47:36 GMT -5
Paris Raises Alert Level After London BlastsBy Eva Cahen CNSNews.com Correspondent July 08, 2005 (CNSnews.com) - France increased its security level to "red alert" on Thursday just hours after four bombs killed at least 50 people in simultaneous explosions in London. With the blasts coming less than a day after London beat out Paris to host the 2012 Summer Olympics, many Parisians wondered if terrorists had planned their attacks to strike the winning city, whether it was London or Paris. Officials tried to reassure the French population, even while urging vigilance and caution. "We saw what happened in New York, we saw what happened in Madrid, we see what's happening in London. Who, today, could seriously say that France is not being threatened," said Nicolas Sarkozy, minister of the interior, on Thursday. Sarkozy was echoing the fear of many French people that Paris could be the next target for a major attack by al Qaeda. In an outpouring of sympathy for London shared by the French, Paris Mayor Bertrand Delanoe said: "Right now, we are all Londoners." France's red alert level calls for increased patrols of airports and train stations, as well as the restriction and closing down of some air space. Police are authorized to carry out random checks and will have an increased presence at major tourist attractions and crowded shopping areas. The French security system, named "vigipirate," is made up of four levels: yellow, orange, red and scarlet. Official sources said the raised alert was a reaction to the London bombings and not any specific threat to Paris. Public transportation has become a priority in patrols because of awareness since the Madrid attacks last year that it could be a prime target for terrorists. In Paris alone, 2,000 police officers and military personnel have been mobilized. About 1,000 soldiers have also been deployed outside the capital. France's national police director, Michel Gaudin, said while being interviewed on Europe 1 radio that nothing allowed police services to believe terrorists wanted to strike at the city that was awarded the Olympics. He said he believed they had targeted their attack to coincide with the G8 summit in Scotland. Gaudin said that French police have been for years carrying out preemptive action against terrorist cells, and since the beginning of this year alone, had made 86 arrests and obtained 17 convictions. Police have confirmed the existence of a new "Iraqi" network in France that is made up of radical Muslims who have fought in Iraq and were ready to continue their violent action on French territory. According to Gaudin, 10 French people are currently fighting in Iraq, and six others have already been killed there. Investigators are also exploring the possibility of new types of terrorist attacks in France that could include suicide bombers and chemical attacks. "We know in the preventive work that we carry out in this country to crack networks that could carry out this type of attack that the chemical menace is not unrealistic," said Gaudin in the radio interview. A group planning to carry out such attacks was arrested in the Paris suburb of La Courneuve in 2003. Although Paris has not yet been the victim of an attack from al-Qaeda, it has experienced several deadly terrorist blasts perpetrated by Islamic radicals. In one of the worst attacks carried out in 1995, Algerian radicals killed 10 people and injured 100 more with a gas bomb in the Paris metro. Gaudin said no one believed anymore that France could be excluded from an al-Qaeda attack as a result of its opposition to the Iraq war. He added there was evidence that radical Muslims had designated France as an enemy country because of a law passed last year banning Islamic headscarves from public schools.
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Post by Moses on Jul 11, 2005 21:40:09 GMT -5
France's Sarkozy: "Turkey has no place in Europe"[/size] Monday, July 11 2005 @ 09:31 AM Eastern Daylight Time Views: 151 French Interior Minister Nicolas Sarkozy said yesterday that the European Union Constitution had been rejected by the French public due to Paris’ support for Turkey’s EU membership. Saying that he supports the EU membership of Eastern European countries, Sarkozy added , “Since Turkey is not European it has no place in Europe.” Sarkozy is the leader of France’s ruling party and a likely successor to current President Jacques Chirac.
Sarkozy gets scarier and scarier. He is LYING about the reason for the constitution failing, and reframing the issue to promote hatred and an all "White" Europe, which means to simply expand in order to encroach on the Soviet Union. The international neocons are really sticking it to Turkey, long-term ally of the US.
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