Terror officials cite 3 thwarted plots
http://www.iht.com/articles/2006/12/19/news/france.php
Katrin Bennhold
"French counterterrorism forces are on high alert going into presidential elections next spring, two of the country's top terrorism officials say, citing three Islamist plots thwarted over the last 18 months — including one to bomb the Paris Métro and another targeting Orly Airport. The chief anti-terrorism investigator in France said in an interview that his country had become more of a terrorist target because an Algerian network that considered Paris its principal enemy had officially linked up with Al Qaeda. This had given the network, the Salafist Group for Preaching and Combat, commonly known by its French acronym GSPC, access to a growing number of jihadists hardened by battle in Iraq."
