Blast plot over Eiffel.AN Islamic terror plot to blow up the Eiffel Tower Eiffel Tower, structure designed by A. G. Eiffel and erected in the Champ-de-Mars for the Paris exposition of 1889. The tower is 984 ft (300 m) high and consists of an iron framework supported on four masonry piers, from which rise four columns uniting to form one has been uncovered, it was revealed yesterday. A radio message in which fanatics discussed the plan was heard by Portuguese air control and handed to France. A French police source said: "It was a muffled conversation in Arabic that was passed on to us. "Our analysts clearly identified the threat." Islamic websites have also threatened to bomb Paris banks and crowded shopping areas. The 1,060ft tower, built in 1889, is the world's most visited monument Anything by which the memory of a person, thing, idea, art, science or event is preserved or perpetuated. A tomb where a dead body has been deposited. In real-property with six million sightseers a year. |
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