Gee, Pierre, you think?

AFP: "Riots seen hitting France's image abroad."

Meanwhile, in the Darwin Marketing Award Department, AQ in Iraq tries to explain why slaughtering Muslims in a Days Inn is what Allah wants:

"Let all know that we have struck only after becoming confident that they are centers for launching war on Islam and support the crusaders' presence in Iraq and the Arab peninsula and the presence of the Jews on the land of Palestine," the group said.

I guess they must have hosted a bar-mitzvah or something.

Given the family's ummm, record, I could see them saying, "secure place for the filthy Israeli and Western tourists to spread corruption and adultery at the expense and suffering of the Muslims in these countries" and going after a Hilton.

But a Days Inn? Not exactly ringing up the Richard the Lionhearted sort of imagery here.