[endthematrix]

"Another senior U.S. official said it was too early to say whether a terror plot had been thwarted."

So they were going to do what? What's the point here?

[milemark]

Naive U.S. authorities, for some reason still under the bizarre impression that France is our ally, were surprised that the Islamic Republic of France warned their true allies, Al Qeada that their mutual enemy, the United States of America, was onto the joint FR/AQ terrorist plot.