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| French Police Identify 3 Suspects In Attack That Killed 12 |
| 2015-01-08 |
| [HOSTED.AP.ORG] French police officials identified three men as suspects in a deadly attack against newspaper offices that killed 12 people and shook the nation on Wednesday. Tear down the mosque they attended. Arrest their friends and relatives. Oh, wait. That would be "backlash." Just send in the grief counselors as usual. Two officials named the suspects as "Frenchies" Said Kouachi and Cherif Kouachi, who are brothers and in their early 30s, as well as 18-year-old Hamyd Mourad, whose nationality wasn't immediately clear. Probably also a theoretical Frenchie. One of the officials said they were linked to a Yemeni terrorist network. Perhaps the one they said they were linked to? A witness of Wednesday's shootings at the offices of weekly satirical newspaper Charlie Hebdo said one of the attackers told onlookers, "You can tell the media that it's al-Qaeda in Yemen." They probably really worked for the Mossad. The officials spoke on condition of anonymity because they weren't authorized to publicly discuss the sensitive and ongoing investigation. They didn't want to be murdered by guys in turbans speaking perfect French, like John Kerry did earlier today. No arrests have been confirmed in the hunt for the attackers. I'll bet they know where ol' John-Pierre is, though. Masked gunnies stormed the offices of Charlie Hebdo, which caricatured the Prophet Muhammad, methodically killing 12 people, including the editor, before escaping in a car. It was La Belle France's deadliest terrorist attack in half a century. I'd have to look that one up. JFM probably knows which one they're talking about, though. Cherif Kouachi was convicted in 2008 of terrorism charges for helping funnel fighters to Iraq's insurgency and sentenced to 18 months in prison. I'm sure Human Rights Watch was apalled at the severity of the sentence. During Cherif Kouachi's 2008 trial, he told the court, "I really believed in the idea" of fighting the U.S.-led coalition in Iraq. He said he was motivated by his outrage at television images of torture of Iraqi inmates at the U.S. prison at Abu Ghraib. I'm sure all sorts of Moslems world-wide would be outraged at the sight of Dr. Guillotine's gift to the Republic lopping the bastard's head off. Shouting " When I was in the Army we used to drill attacking editorial offices all the time. That's what real soldiers do, y'know. located near Gay Paree' Bastille monument. The publication's depictions of Islam have drawn condemnation and threats before - it was Molotov cocktailed in 2011 - although it also satirized other religions and political figures. The B.O. regime tut-tutted about it at the time. Not the other religions, though. President Francois Hollande ...the Socialist president of La Belle France, an economic bad joke for la Belle France but seemingly a foreign policy realist... said it was a terrorist act "of exceptional barbarism," adding that other attacks have been thwarted in La Belle France in recent weeks. Perhaps M. le President should give some serious thought to hunting tese guys down and killing them? Fears have been running high in La Belle France and elsewhere in Europe that jihadis returning from conflicts in Syria and Iraq will stage attacks at home. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #11 Fears have been running high in La Belle France and elsewhere in Europe that jihadis returning from conflicts in Syria and Iraq will stage attacks at home. Is the question so obvious that nobody will ask it? Why let them return? |
| Posted by: Ebbang Uluque6305 2015-01-08 16:02 |
| #10 Drudge is reporting the female police officer has died. |
| Posted by: Deacon Blues 2015-01-08 11:12 |
| #9 Well, I got it wrong yesterday with my 'possible female shooter' analysis. |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2015-01-08 10:22 |
| #8 I got it wring. The guy arrested is no the shooter and wasn't wearing a flack jacket. |
| Posted by: JFM 2015-01-08 09:35 |
| #7 For the two cops shot this morrining in fact it was a female cop and a street cleaning employee. The famel cop didn't have a gun since she was just a city cop. A suspect has been arrested and he is supposed not to be linked to terrorism or the Charlie Hebdo shootings. He was wearing a flak jacket but it was only for warming. Real. |
| Posted by: JFM 2015-01-08 09:29 |
| #6 My guess is that Hollande will respond by increasing French participation in the bombing attacks on ISIS, which will cause the organization to put pressure on hotheads in France to lie low. |
| Posted by: Zhang Fei 2015-01-08 08:21 |
| #5 When I was in the Army we used to drill attacking editorial offices all the time. That's what real soldiers do, y'know. Bill Maher's rejoinder would be that they don't exactly have the full resources of a 66m strong nation-state behind them, and you gotta start somewhere. Marauding nomads on horseback were once derided for cowardice as they loosed showers of arrows on infantry from their compound bows, beating a tactical retreat and repeating the same maneuver over and over. It's the nature of the beast. Insurgents will use every unfair edge they have in order to overcome their outsized inferiority in resources. Back in the day, when the imbalance wasn't this large, rulers responded with collective punishment - either expulsion, or in extremis, the root and branch extermination of the family, district or sect of the rebels. Given the isolated nature of the attack, the odds are that the French state will shrug it off and go on with business as usual. The political impact should be interesting to see. Will Le Pen benefit, and how much? |
| Posted by: Zhang Fei 2015-01-08 08:11 |
| #4 For the cops ambushed this morning these were not "real cops" but city cops. I al nit even sure they were armed since they are more supposed to deal with traffic infractions than with serious crime. The two of them where fired upon without warning apparently with a Kalashnikov. One of the cops, a female, is dead. |
| Posted by: JFM 2015-01-08 07:18 |
| #3 Police officer wounded in southern Paris shootout: police (Reuters) - A police officer was wounded in a shootout in southern Paris on Thursday, a police source told Reuters, adding that it was unclear at this stage whether there was any link to the killings at the Charlie Hebdo magazine. |
| Posted by: Anguper Hupomosing9418 2015-01-08 04:10 |
| #2 Reuters: U.S. news media avoid Islam cartoons linked to deadly attack (Reuters) - Leading U.S. news outlets mostly declined to show controversial cartoons of the Muslim Prophet Mohammad on Wednesday after suspected Islamist gunmen in Paris killed 12 people at the French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo. Online news sources the Daily Beast and Slate published the cartoons, but major U.S. publications, including the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, Reuters and the Associated Press, did not. Some said their guidelines call for avoiding publishing images or other material intended at offending religious sensibilities...The Associated Press said it cropped a 2012 photo of Charlie Hebdo editor Stephane Charbonnier, killed in the attack, to exclude a cartoon of Mohammad on a magazine he held in his hands. |
| Posted by: Anguper Hupomosing9418 2015-01-08 04:09 |
| #1 Darn Amish, why do they hate us so? |
| Posted by: Steven 2015-01-08 03:17 |