A shadowy group that threatened to bomb the French rail network if not paid a large ransom has suspended its threats, French officials say. But the group, which calls itself AZF, warned it could return with attacks worse than the Madrid train bombings, in a letter to the interior ministry. “Pay up… or else France will surpass ingloriously the sad records of Spain,” the AZF statement read. It followed Wednesday’s bomb find on a track between Paris and Switzerland. A bomb disposal squad made the device safe. The authorities said they did not know whether that incident was linked to AZF. Full Story