How Serious Is the European Terror Alert?

PARIS (Oct. 4) - How American Travelers Frightened Should Be Following the State Department's alert is "The Potential for Terrorist attacks in Europe?"

The answer: The Worries are Serious, But the Threat: 'may be less dire headlines please suggest.

In Paris, military and police patrols today appeared more sporadic over the past please DURING Periods of high alert, "when the check points dotted thoroughfares in the city center and at the tourist meccas like the Louvre Museum and Champs Elysees the. French counterterrorist troops were deployed at the Eiffel Tower, cited last week as a Potential Target, But in lesser numbers please DURING EARLIER Periods of high-alert, Such as the spate of bombings in the mid-1990s by an Algerian Islamists group. In much of the Metro system, little extra police presence was visible.

So what's a U.S. Tourist or Business Traveler to Think? Here's Some Of What We Know, and Do not Know, about the travel alert ISSUED on Sunday.

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