Is al Qaeda Planning to Attack France?

The al Qaeda network and colloborators are itching to repeat their European "successes". France has been in the crosshairs for some time and tension in the Muslim community in that country continues to worsen. Cells in that country would love nothing more than to follow the example of terrorists in Britain and Spain:

FRENCH intelligence has produced a dossier alleging that al-Qaeda plans an attack on the country during forthcoming presidential elections.

The Arabic-language al-Hayat daily newspaper has reported there were "several indications of a plot to copy the Spanish scenario in France", a reference to the explosions that rocked Madrid in March 2004.

The indications:

Al-Hayat also published a letter attributed to al-Qaeda chief Osama bin Laden addressed to a GSPC leader referred to as Abu Qassem, in which he recommends targeting France "to hit where it hurts most".

Who would behind such an attack:

Formed in 1998 by dissidents of the Islamic Armed Group, the GSPC is the sole remaining radical movement that continues to wage an insurgency against the secular Algerian state.

Last September the group officially placed itself under al-Qaeda orders.