Sarkozy calls for vigilance....

PARIS (Reuters) - Police found explosives hidden in a Paris department store on Tuesday after a tip-off from a group demanding the withdrawal of French troops from Afghanistan.The group called itself the Afghan Revolutionary Front, but French officials said they had never heard of it before and warned it might prove a false lead. Police recovered five sticks of dynamite from the Printemps store. The explosives were not attached to detonators, suggesting that the aim was to spread alarm rather than cause death and destruction.French President Nicolas Sarkozy, speaking in the eastern French city of Strasbourg, said France would not negotiate with terrorists and urged caution."At this point in time I would call on everyone to be very prudent and very measured," he said.The tip-off was sent by letter to a French news agency, warning that several bombs had been planted in the Printemps store on the Boulevard Haussmann, which is usually packed with Christmas shoppers at this time of year.Dynamite was found in lavatories on the second and third floors of the men's section of the store, which was allowed to reopen some five hours after the alarm was raised.Police said there was no mention of Islam in the letter, adding that recent attacks in Europe tied to Iraq and Afghanistan had been launched without specific prior warning."Anything can be written in a text," said Interior Minister Michele Alliot-Marie. "There might be things that are designed to send one off in the wrong direction."
By Crispian Balmer
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