Reuters: A shadowy group is threatening to blow up sections of track in France's SNCF state railway network if it is not paid four million euros ($5 million), officials said on Wednesday... The group, calling itself AZF after a chemical factory in southwestern France that exploded in 2001, claims to have hidden 10 bombs around the network and has already directed police to a test model to prove its determination, officials said... The Interior Ministry had appealed to journalists not to expose the threats, which were known but unreported on by the French media, to let it continue secret contacts with the group... (Thanks to W)