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  Date / Time: 12/21/2008 8:58 PM UTC

  Paris bomb scare raises question: jihadis, or not?
  

  Paris bomb scare raises question: jihadis, or not?

  Christian Science Monitor, MA December 17 2008
  By Robert Marquand

  The note announcing the explosives lacked references to Islam, jihad, or the Taliban.

  The first words in the Paris bomb warning letter – "We are from the Afghan revolutionary front" – already show something unusual. The group or persons leaving five old sticks of dynamite in a men's room in an upscale Paris department store at the height of Christmas shopping were not using the language of jihad, of Islam, or of the Taliban, to create fear.

  Rather, the letter, posted to Agence France-Presse (AFP) and intended to reach French President Nicolas Sarkozy, contained what seems more a political than a religious demand. It said French troops must leave Afghanistan by the end of February. If not, the group threatened, using almost Marxist phraseology, "we will take action again in your capitalist stores."

  Whether the Paris threat was authentic, a cruel prank, a deceptive shot from (...)

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