ONCE MORE, FROM EUROPE – AT 8:22 A.M. ET:  Once more, we have a terror warning focused on Europe, confirmed by a high European official.  This one originates in Saudi Arabia, and when the Saudis warn about terror, they generally know what they're talking about.  From Fox:

PARIS -- Saudi intelligence services have warned of a new terror threat from Al Qaeda against Europe, particularly in France, Interior Minister Brice Hortefeux said Sunday.

He said the warning of a potential attack by Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula was received "in the last few hours, few days."

European officials were informed that "Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula was doubtless active or envisioned being active" on the "European continent, notably France," Hortefeux said during a joint TV and radio interview.

"The threat is real," he said on RTL-LCI-Le Figaro's weekly talk show.

The warning from Saudi Arabia is the latest in a series of alerts that have put French security forces and others in high-vigilance mode.

On Sept. 9, Interpol, the international police organization, signaled an "Islamist threat on a world scale, and notably on the European continent," Hortefeux said without elaborating. That was followed by a Sept. 16, report of a woman suicide bomber who could take action in France — later judged not fully credible.

Intelligence sources in North Africa also contacted France about a potential threat as did the United States, he said. He said he had spoken at length with U.S. Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano.

COMMENT:  Now, readers, be very careful.  If you discuss this story with friends who are pro-Obama, be sure to leave out the silly business about Islamic extremism.  Don't even mention Al Qaeda.  Just say there are reports of alientated peoples, offended by Bush policies, planning resistance operations because of their own desperation in the face of American imperialism and the onslaught of Bill O'Reilly.

Of course, it is serious.  A major French official would not be going public unless the threat was credible.  If it's credible there, it's credible here.  Sadly, we know what it will take to wake us up.

October 18, 2010