Posted on 01/08/2015 9:07:45 AM PST by Second Amendment First
PARIS — When Chérif Kouachi first came to the attention of the French authorities as a possible terrorist a decade ago, he was in his early 20s and, according to testimony during a 2008 Paris trial, had dreamed of attacking Jewish targets in France. Under the influence of a radical Paris preacher, however, he decided that fighting American troops in Iraq presented a better outlet for his commitment to jihad.
On Wednesday, Mr. Kouachi, according to investigators, returned to his original plan of waging holy war in France. Along with his older brother Said and a third French Muslim of North African descent, he was named as one of three who were involved in an assault on a satirical newspaper in Paris that left at least 12 people dead. Continue reading the main story Related Coverage
Manhunt for Charlie Hebdo Attack Suspects ContinuesJAN. 8, 2015 Police officers guarded the street next to the office of the satirical newspaper Charlie Hebdo in Paris on Thursday. Survivors Retrace a Scene of Horror at Charlie HebdoJAN. 8, 2015 video In Paris, Solidarity Against TerrorismJAN. 7, 2015
Chérif and Said, ages 32 and 34, are suspected of being the masked gunmen who entered the offices of the Charlie Hebdo newspaper at 10 Rue Nicolas-Appert in the 11th Arrondissement on Wednesday morning and slaughtered members of the paper’s staff and two police officers with Kalashnikov automatic weapons.
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I read a report that the brothers called on the victims by name then shot them.
I hear they call the names out before they shot and kill the editoral staff
BTW I wonder why nobody report it maybe they don’t have Starsky Hutch version of their snitch Huggy bear in France
Seems like “Police Have No Guns”....and had to run....might not be a real shortcoming.
Yes, the terrorists had a list of targets, made the victims identify themselves and then shot them. Others were shot simply because they were there, however. And the police were shot because they were police.
The French obviously monitor Islamic terrorists the way we do...which is to say, not at all. Put their name on a watchlist and forget about it.
perhaps they thought that the list had some mystical properties.....
NY Times narrative: Oh well, its a failure in the security apparatus. What can you do? Was it some operating procedure George Bush had the French institute?
The French actually have an intelligence force? I knew they had forces for diversity, tolerance, social justice, anti hate, anti bullying, gun control...but intelligence?! Must be new. Do the French qualify? Or do they bring in ringers?
Families of the victims ought to bring a class action suit against the authorities for failing in their duty to protect citizens.
Something like THAT might work to keep taxpayer funded officialdom ‘responsible’.
As it is, they just collect a paycheck and write parking tickets.
People in other professions have to meet standards and they have to be efficient or else. Why not the authorities?
“Put their name on a watch list and forget about it.”
Or quietly release them from Gitmo...one by one...usually on holiday weekends, or late Friday evenings so no one notices.
@#$%^&*!
We’re so screwed.
The globalist powers that be are provoking terrorism then using fear of terrorist activity to bring down the middle class in areas that had a large one.
How else do you explain that people not only aren't being sent back to their homelands, they're still arriving from them, and those global entities are still practicing foreign policies that provoke them into acting out their maniac tendencies?
Maybe some good will come it. That would be Europe driving the EU elite crazies out of power and re-establishing national borders.
What both of you have said is absolutely the truth. In the US, the Muslim pressure groups are using complaisant judges against us - they file lawsuits or threaten to file them, and then city PD’s have to call off their mosque surveillance and even Internet monitoring (a lot of these jihadis have abundantly announced their intentions on a variety of social media).
I don’t know what it’s going to take to wake us up.
I can think of a few things, like flying planes into the Twin Towers…But we forget so easily and go right back to sleep.
Just like the two Boston Bombers were known to US, England and Russia’s intelligence agencies. A lot of good those lists are not.
Sons of ø.
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