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Ten held as France smashes jihadist network
AFP. ^ | 15 Dec 2014

Posted on 12/15/2014 10:43:04 AM PST by george76

French police launched raids across the country early on Monday, dismantling a network sending jihadist fighters to Syria

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anti-terror police units descended on around a dozen targets, mostly in the southern region of Toulouse, but also around Paris and in the northern region of Normandy.

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In recent months France, which has Europe's largest Muslim population, has been facing the fact that hundreds of its citizens have openly joined jihadist groups in Iraq and Syria and have even called for attacks on their homeland.

The new reality was driven home in a video from the Islamic State group released in mid-November, showing three Kalashnikov-wielding Frenchmen burning their passports and calling on Muslims to join them or stage attacks in France.

A grisly execution video released around the same time featured at least one French citizen who hailed from a small village in Normandy and converted to Islam in his teens.

Almost 1,000 French nationals from a wide range of backgrounds are estimated to have left to join jihadists in Iraq and Syria,

(Excerpt) Read more at thelocal.fr ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Extended News; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: europeanunion; france; iran; iraq; islam; islamicstate; jihadist; jihadistnetwork; kalashnikov; kurdistan; lebanon; muslims; syria; waronterror

1 posted on 12/15/2014 10:43:04 AM PST by george76
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France smashes jihadist network ,while Obama finds ways to put jihadist network on Obamacare and Food stamps


2 posted on 12/15/2014 10:46:27 AM PST by molson209 (Blank)
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Good on France! Too little, too late, but good on them, anyhow. Sure would like to see this happen in America!

Can I NOW eat French Fries and Brie, again? ;)


3 posted on 12/15/2014 10:48:43 AM PST by Diana in Wisconsin (I don't have 'Hobbies.' I'm developing a robust Post-Apocalyptic skill set...)
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To: george76

France and Australia. Good news.


4 posted on 12/15/2014 10:49:35 AM PST by Slyfox (To put on the mind of George Washington read ALL of Deuteronomy 28, then read his Farewell Address)
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To: Diana in Wisconsin

See how hard it is to shake the stigma once you do it? Even when you fight back, others will qualify it. :-[

Lesson for us all: Don’t compromise with evil in the world. And NEVER surrender to it! :-)


5 posted on 12/15/2014 10:56:32 AM PST by BradyLS (DO NOT FEED THE BEARS!)
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“Ten held as France smashes jihadist network”

Oooh! That’s gonna hurt.

Not really because there are only 4,703, 990 more jihadis to smash in France!


6 posted on 12/15/2014 10:57:25 AM PST by Jack Hydrazine (Pubbies = national collectivists; Dems = international collectivists; We need a second party!)
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To: molson209

“France smashes jihadist network , while Obama finds ways to put jihadist network on Obamacare and Food stamps”

Not necessarily a bad thing. This could make them too lazy to blow things up.


7 posted on 12/15/2014 11:13:15 AM PST by haroldeveryman
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To: haroldeveryman

The Boston bombers were on all sorts of government handouts .


8 posted on 12/15/2014 11:21:38 AM PST by katykelly
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To: Jack Hydrazine
Oooh! That’s gonna hurt.

Not really because there are only 4,703, 990 more jihadis to smash in France!

Yeah, these ten are like the slowest cockroaches that get stomped when the lights flick on. Countless more are safe in the shadows.

Nevertheless, I raise my glass to the French for making the effort.

9 posted on 12/15/2014 11:37:34 AM PST by Charles Martel (Endeavor to persevere...)
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To: george76

Ten held as France smashes jihadist network

Too bad it didn’t read:

“Ten Dead as France smashes jihadist network”


10 posted on 12/15/2014 11:38:18 AM PST by rfreedom4u (Do you know who Barry Soetoro is?)
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Good going France! Your president is a better man than ours!


11 posted on 12/15/2014 11:56:58 AM PST by I want the USA back (Media: completely irresponsible. Complicit in the destruction of this country.)
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Ten???

Ten thousand would be only a start.


12 posted on 12/15/2014 2:56:56 PM PST by Jack Hammer
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