[blanknoone]

Did you fail to read the article? Collective groans? Hoped arrests could me made when potential terrorists showed up for the flight? france made announcements days ahead of time including the security reason?

Is it not obvious that we cooperated with the french, and they Jean Kerryed us?

Do you think the french are that stupid as to release potential terrorists?

Stupid? No. Malicious enough to deliberately allow terrorists to escape because terrorists are almost as hateful towards all things American as the french? Yes.

Canceling the flights early enough and obviously enough meant that these particular attacks, in which french would also die, would be thwarted, but also let any terrorists escape, so they could attack America some other way. Do you think the french are to stupid to realize THAT?

[DanDan]

Did you know that since the 21st of December, when the french authorities learned about the potential threats from the CIA, armed members of the GIGN (elite french anti terrorist teams) boarded the Paris-LA flights? I haven't seen this in the american media.
As a matter of fact, I am sure they are present on every transatlantic flights until at least the end of the year.

There is so much going on that we do not know about, and I really trust all intelligence services , american or french, to do their best to avoid another catastrophe. To believe that France would do anything that could help another tragedy is, for me, foolish.