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2005-11-07 Europe

Day 12 - Rioters Set Fire to Bus in Toulouse

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Posted by Steve 2005-11-07 14:03|| || Front Page|| [3 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Toulouse, eh?

I wonder: Is Airbus going to fall even further behind on their A380 deliveries? Stay tuned.

Posted by Bomb-a-rama 2005-11-07 14:19|| 2005-11-07 14:19|| Front Page Top

#2 One of the side effects of getting news from the 'net is less awareness of what the TV networks are running with. How much video is France getting? Are we seeing any footage of the actual events, or are they running with file footage and talking heads?

Posted by Robert Crawford">Robert Crawford 2005-11-07 14:21|| http://www.kloognome.com/]">[http://www.kloognome.com/] 2005-11-07 14:21|| Front Page Top

#3 That's "seezles."

Posted by Curt Simon 2005-11-07 14:38|| 2005-11-07 14:38|| Front Page Top

#4 They aren't running with much Robert. FoxNews has the most, and it is only a 5 minute report of car burning and some firemen putting out fires. Most of the other MSM news sites are going "Riots continue in France. In other news, will Rove be fired?"

Posted by mmurray821 2005-11-07 15:27|| 2005-11-07 15:27|| Front Page Top

#5 They aren't running with much Robert.

So I'm not missing much.

Posted by Robert Crawford">Robert Crawford 2005-11-07 15:31|| http://www.kloognome.com/]">[http://www.kloognome.com/] 2005-11-07 15:31|| Front Page Top

#6 I was starting to overcome my distaste for things French and feel sorry for the poor fools, but then I read the French Connection to Joe Wilson and his antics.

Maybe in another couple of months I'll start to feel bad again - if France still exists.

Posted by Bobby 2005-11-07 15:34|| 2005-11-07 15:34|| Front Page Top

#7 Toulouse?

Musta been the short bus, eh?

Thanks, I'm here all week...

Posted by mojo">mojo 2005-11-07 15:52|| 2005-11-07 15:52|| Front Page Top

#8 Open question: will the rioters start going after bigger targets? They are obviously focusing on vehicle arson, but with their success so far, you would think that they would start to get more ambitious. I'm thinking of the Detroit "Hell Nights" of years ago, in which many abandoned buildings were set on fire.

Another big step would be if they attacked industrial targets. There are thousands of targets like warehouses full of plastics, large maintenance facilities, paint stores, etc., that would literally cast a pall over all of Paris. They are poorly guarded at night, and would be easy prey for an arson gang.

Posted by Anonymoose 2005-11-07 15:57|| 2005-11-07 15:57|| Front Page Top

#9 It is possible that the current government can locate veterans of the 1e REP, LÃ©gion ÃtrangÃ¨re who might offer a solution to the problem.

Posted by Chuck Simmins">Chuck Simmins 2005-11-07 16:06|| http://blog.simmins.org]">[http://blog.simmins.org] 2005-11-07 16:06|| Front Page Top

#10 Seafarious---according to Wrechard's map of insurrection hotspots, Cannes has been torched, too. So your suggestion that Kofi and the UN take on the problem and have lunch there is out.

Posted by Alaska Paul">Alaska Paul 2005-11-07 16:32|| 2005-11-07 16:32|| Front Page Top

#11 LOL Mojo.

Posted by Shipman 2005-11-07 16:35|| 2005-11-07 16:35|| Front Page Top

#12 http://architectureandmorality.blogspot.com/2005/11/shattered-glass-dealing-with-north.html

Check this they are shouting "allan snackbar". It is amazing that this is in Europe as it looks like Beiruit or Iraq

Posted by Albert Armchair 2005-11-07 16:40|| 2005-11-07 16:40|| Front Page Top

#13 The link above is in dutch stay with it and you see the mob....

Posted by Albert Armchair 2005-11-07 16:42|| 2005-11-07 16:42|| Front Page Top

#14 Allan's Snack Bar. Best Pork BBQ in town.

Posted by Omager Ulereting9458 2005-11-07 16:42|| 2005-11-07 16:42|| Front Page Top

#15 Interesting. They stopped an empty bus, fired it up and this time waited around for the responders to come and them attacked them. Last night it was shotguns, tonight Molotovs. They've got the first responders tired, pissed off, humiliated, and unsure of support from their superiors. And now they attack. I'd call it a pretty good plan if this weren't spontaneous.

Posted by Thrinenter Phaigum4795 2005-11-07 16:57|| 2005-11-07 16:57|| Front Page Top

#16 @ Thrinenter Phaigum4795 : the Metula News Agency, a french language jewish news agency has a very interesting article about those tactics (for sucribers, but posted here anyway http://www.aipj-news.net/articles.php?num=132), though its actual point is about the under-reporting of the french msm.

At Grigny-en-Essonne, a small group of rioters set fire to vehicles.
When about 25 riot cops came to the scene to check, they were ambushed and surrounded by a group of about 100 rioters hiding in the area, with stones, firebombs, and firearms (that's during that ambush that 2 policemen were wounded by buckshot, and apparently without their bulletproof jacket, they'd be dead).

When the riot cops reinforcement, 35 more policemen, came in to bail their pals out... the rioters engaged reinforcements of their own, 100 more rioters, trapping the back-up force too!

All in all, the two riot police units were trapped for 2 hours and went out of ammo, so they had to coninue fighting by throwning back projectiles they received, all the while being shot at with shotguns (and handguns too, according to some sources)!

They were finally rescued by an another unit, and had to flee the area, leaving the rioters triumphant.

According to the officers involved, this was a "killing ambush", in which the goal to shed the blood of the police units involved.

Posted by anonymous5089 2005-11-07 17:23|| 2005-11-07 17:23|| Front Page Top

#17 4795 If that is so then surely they should start getting live ammo in there fuck em

Posted by Bush Mckenzie 2005-11-07 17:25|| 2005-11-07 17:25|| Front Page Top

#18 Good thing for the responders that they have Arab marksmanship.

Posted by Chimble Chans3999 2005-11-07 17:43|| 2005-11-07 17:43|| Front Page Top

#19 Re film footage. BBC World news had some footage from today's events in France. But to offset the negative image of socialist utopia they also did a hit piece on the US. It was a report on some study that was done that showed that the US has a very low social mobility compared to Canada, Europe. Contained phrases like "But this is America, where there is a sharp divide between haves and have-nots." Also commented that the 500,000 immigrants coming to America each year are deluding themselves. BBC World - an alternative reality.

Posted by jolly roger 2005-11-07 18:41|| 2005-11-07 18:41|| Front Page Top

#20 Beirut meets Lord of the Flies.

Here's what happens when kids raised on Mohammedism intersect with years of police indifference.

Posted by eLarson 2005-11-07 19:59|| http://larsonian.blogspot.com]">[http://larsonian.blogspot.com] 2005-11-07 19:59|| Front Page Top

#21 bbc.. Also commented that the 500,000 immigrants coming to America each year are deluding themselves.

I don't have a problem with that. Keep the rumor going. Stay at home. Do not come here. You will not like it.

Posted by 2b 2005-11-07 20:08|| 2005-11-07 20:08|| Front Page Top

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