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...latest tape the first time Zawahiri had singled out France. "Zawahiri has threatened France by name previously - notably in citing the law banning female Muslim students from wearing headscarves in public school," says independent terror expert Roland Jacquard of a February, 2004 recording. "About the only response that produced was from leaders of the Muslim community - most of whom who oppose that law - telling extremists and foreign Muslims to mind their own business." (Zawahiri got a similar response earlier this year when he publicly scolded Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood and the Palestinian Hamas movement for contesting parliamentary elections...
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...concern of all terror plots has always been the secondary impact of attacks--getting democracies and free societies so frenzied to prevent new attacks that we start eroding and violating the very freedoms and liberties that the authors of terrorism themselves want to destroy," says French terrorism expert Roland Jacquard. "There will always be holes. One-hundred-percent security doesn't exist. We can do everything possible or viable to increase our security, but cutting off your arm because your hand risks gangrene is going too far." The question is, How do you know when you have gone far enough...