TARGET: THE EIFFEL TOWER

Whilst I may not always agree with French politicians, I still think France is a great country with a fascinating history and I am particularly fond of Paris. So I was concerned to read about a plot by Islamic terrorists to blow up the Eiffel Tower

A scrambled short-wave radio conversation exposing the planned attack on the world's most visited monument was picked up by Portuguese air traffic controllers and passed on to French spy chiefs. The 1,060ft high tower has more than six million visitors a year - an average of more than 16,000 a day. A successful strike on the 7,500 ton iron tower, which was looked down on Paris since 1889, would be a French 9/11 and could cost thousands of lives. The threat was uncovered in a "vague and muffled" radio conversation picked up by air traffic controllers in Lisbon on Thursday. It comes after a spate of other threats made in recent days on the websites linked to Osama bin Laden's Al Qaeda terror network, calling for the "brothers of Islam to strike Paris".

In January 2005, French intelligence officers arrested three French-born Algerian terror suspects suspected of plotting to bring down the Eiffel Tower. Khaled Ouazane, 38, his brother Maamar Ouazane, 22, and Hassen Habbar, 35, had begun smuggling bomb-making equipment into France over three years with the intention of amassing enough explosives to collapse the landmark. A police source said at the time: "Their main target was the Eiffel Tower, which it appears they intended to completely flatten. "They had intended for the attack to be on a scale comparable with those in New York They had been smuggling explosives to Lyon within the intention of bringing them to Paris for a prolonged bombing campaign."

The price of freedom is eternal vigilance from the Islamic lunatics that plot to kill us by the thousand if they can. Destroying the Eiffel Tower may seem inconceivable - but not so many years ago people would have said the same about the World Trade Centre in New York. You see whether the liberal Media and its commentariat want to accept it or not, Islam IS at war with us, and even France is not safe from the Religion of Peace as it seeks to bring us all to submission. Denial of reality will not save the French but at least their security services, if not their media and politicians, understand that the Islamic savages really do seek to bring France, Europe, the US and the world to its knees.

Cross posted from A TANGLED WEB