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Introduction: Terror in France
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Current Issues
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12 / 1986 |
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The country that marks the storming of the Bastille prison in 1789 with an annual celebration of the subsequent revolution found itself victimized by a new reign of terror this year. Once against, blood flowed in the streets of Paris. Only instead of a razor-sharp guillotine, the agent of death was razor-blade-filled bombs. And the executioners were not Danton and Marat but supporters of Georges Ibrahim Abdallah.
The innocent seemed to be the special target of the bombings. Each event was staged in a public area frequented by ordinary citizens: department stores, a motor vehicle department, cafes, and subways. Efforts by police and government to clamp down met with deliberate bombings in official buildings: police departments and post offices.
American terrorist experts were quick to point out that France had long sheltered the outlaws of other nations, including known terrorists. It seemed to be a natural consequence of such actions to finally reap the fruits of terror on its own soil.
Some suspected an effort to change France's politics on Middle East issues, such as the Iran/Iraq conflict or the presence of French troops in Beirut.
Another interpretation put forward by French intelligence sources is that the attacks are aimed at destabilizing the government of Prime Minister Jacques Chirac, whom Syria evidently considers an enemy of its goals.
One interesting aspect of the attacks was that world attention focused on Syria, rather than Libya, as a
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