Geo436.com blog: Breaking News Eiffel Tower, park evacuated over bomb alert

Breaking News PARIS — The Eiffel Tower and the surrounding park were evacuated on Tuesday for the second time in two weeks after a bomb alert.
The city’s police headquarters said an anonymous caller phoned in a bomb threat Tuesday from a telephone booth near the tower.
Last week, France’s national police chief said the country was facing a “peak” terror threat, and that authorities suspect al-Qaida’s North African affiliate of plotting a conventional bomb attack on a crowded target.
That was preceded a week earlier by a false bomb alert at the Eiffel Tower, and investigators are looking into an anonymous phone call that prompted police to evacuate the most-visited monument in the tourism-oriented country.
The French Senate earlier this month voted to ban burqa-style Islamic veils in France, a subject that has prompted warnings by al-Qaida.
Counterterrorism officials in France say the ban is just one of several factors that have made France a target of the group.
Another was France’s military logistical support for a July raid by Mauritanian forces against the group that left six of its militants dead.