Muslim youths could attack Jewish property in France out of anger at the U.S. invasion of Iraq, a French official said. Yves Bertrand, the head of France’s domestic intelligence agency, made his comments this week after a French Islamic leader said the Iraq war is polarizing French Muslims and is undermining moderate Islam in France.
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