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The U.S. State Department alert Sunday advised the hundreds of thousands of American citizens living or traveling in Europe to take more precaution about their personal security. The British Foreign Office warned travelers to France and Germany that the terror threat in the countries was high.
Western nations are aligned in their estimation of the threat, a French official said.
"These American recommendations are line with the recommendations that we have made on our own territory," said Foreign Ministry spokesman Bernard Valero, pointing to France's "red" terror alert status — the second-highest in the French warning system.
"All countries concerned have a convergent analysis of the high level of threat in Europe," Valero said.
In Berlin, Interior Ministry spokesman Michael Paris said German authorities were taking the latest travel warnings "very seriously," but that there were no indications of an imminent terror threat.
I remember when a few years ago stories were going around about Americans wearing shirts with Canadian flags. That was funny."Don't walk around with the American flag on your back,"
I sure wish we had a way of knowing what the Mossad knows on a regular basis I know they sometimes use tactic frowned of by some goody two shoes types but they are effective and just about the best there is as what they do.
Oh yea you don't hear about what they do unless it's speculation because they really are good. They are like a bunch of James Bonds on matzo balls.
There is no threat at all, I think there is more risk to be killed by a meteor or by a lightning than by a terrorist attack. I'm in a touristic and crowded place with several americans and no one feels threatened, one of them even told me she felt safer here than in the USA.
She was humoring you, get a clue. :roll:
Baltimore is hardly representative of the U.S. since it is one of the top ten most violent cities here.
Baltimore is hardly representative of the U.S. since it is one of the top ten most violent cities here. It's akin to St. Petersburg, maybe.
Baltimore and D.C. , now.
But don't forget the motor city.......
I know it may not be representative, but she comes from there so...but my point was: don't pay too much attention to these "terror alerts":
A friend of mine told me that these terror alerts are very similar to the ones that occurrred 2 weeks prior to 9/11.
We have such "alerts" every week for 10 years, and no attack has occured in the USA since 2001 and in Europe since 2005...
Those terror alerts were based on a trustworthy intelligenece, arrests were already done of some 11 terror suspects in France that have carried quite the armory with them.
The threat is real and the terrorists are planning a Mumbai-style attack in many different locations around Europe, including 5 known airports, the tour Eiffel site, and the Notre Dame cathedral in Paris.
I don't think that the terror threat was already removed but it can be said that due to the fact that it was taken seriously a ****loads of lives were saved.
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