The French government will not face a Tony Blair moment because the police have enjoyed steadily increasing powers in France for the last few decades. What Blair tried in Britain or Bush did in the U.S. with the Patriot Act were major shifts in the legal landscape.

He said aloud what everybody everywhere now says.

The Islamists aren't in the affair, because it would expose them to criticism and gain them nothing.

It's difficult. When these guys turn radical, they do that in the framework of a small local network of friends. It's not a real social movement, and we have trouble connecting people who don't have any prior connection, which makes them very difficult to track.

It's a game of cowboys and Indians, ... have become a local sport, a rite of passage.

This is what Muslims want - to be treated the same as other faiths.

They are people who feel devalued, despised and by becoming terrorists they suddenly become supermen, heroes.

Thirty years ago, you joined the Maoists, the Trotskyists, the far left, the Baader group, Action Directe. Today, where do you go? Bin Laden.

The second generation in America has been taken into the American mainstream, while in Europe there is a tendency to lag behind in social mobility.

There's nothing easier if you follow the smugglers' route,