Reply #45: Those groups continue to kill regularly and with impunity in Algeria

[Paschall]

If they had wished to target France, they could have done so, regardless of the efficiency of French counter-terrorism. At the least, our terror alert level would not have been lowered if such a threat did indeed exist. Algeria is only a two-hour flight from Paris, language is no barrier, and theoretically French recruits of North African extraction could be easily employed.

Or to state it differently, if France is not being targetted today, it may be that these groups clearly see that France is not serving the American "colonial overlord" in its more global designs.

This speaks, of course, to the notion of the globality of radical Islamic terror. While the risks may be global, they are not universally of the same magnitude, even among the equally infidel Western nations.