Two black-hooded men with Kalashnikov rifles entered the offices of satirical French magazine Charlie Hebdo today, singling out cartoonists and writers seen to have insulted Mohammed in the past and killing them. 12 people, including two police, were killed in the attack.
The attackers managed to not only carry out this high-profile attack in broad daylight, but they were able to carjack someone and escape, leading to a day-long manhunt which has fueled a flurry of conflicting reports.
The three suspects were identified as Said Kouachi and Cherif Kouachi, two brothers born in France from Algerian parents, and Hamyd Mourad, an apparent high school student of an as-yet-unclear nationality.
The most recent reports are that Mourad had turned himself in to police, while reports that two were caught and the other killed have been retracted, and it is presently unclear what happened to the Kouachi brothers.Additional reports have suggested Mourad may have an alibi, and may not have been involved after all.
The Kouachi brothers remain at large, and reportedly robbed a gas station for fuel and food. Police have set up checkpoints but don’t seem to be making much progress tracking them down.
Video and eye-witness accounts led police to conclude the brothers, who were the gunmen, had extensive combat experience, apparently gained in Syria. The suspects were identified by ID cards reportedly left in the vehicle.
The suspects were identified by ID cards left in the vehicle?????????
that was handy wasn't it? not impossible but you know very convenient.
Also very much like a red herring or two.
The Mossad may well have been behind this thing. I wouldn't be even a wee bit surprised.
My name is Charlie Hebdo and I do respect my freedom given to me by the law, but that doesn't give me the right to disrespect others nor their religious. The other way around policies been practiced in real time long before Afghanistan, Syria, Iraq or Libya war by the west, when anglo Saxon created Israel and let Zionism and far right jweish orthodox in control.
Religious always been a tool for power, divisions and control of people's mind. The mankind egos uses religious to say that there is a devil from within which needs to be confronted, while it is this ego wanting to control using another word "devil" for people to oby the system created by man.
The law doesnt' 'give' you freedom, and how about that highly-acclaimed 'Piss Christ'? Pussy Riot? Femen? That's what I thought.
Maplethorpe etc. …yeah, the Christians are now basically so cowed by the same kind of 'symbolic' attacks that they have no idea why anyone would fight it anymore–hence the surreal 'horror' that anyone still does (at least violently)…
And aint it great that femen doesn't field any fat ones?!! Jeez, fastest search for quality nakedness yet…
singling out … seen to have insulted Mohammed in the past
If they say so, I'll just buy it. But, say, did all 12 also happen to draw Sarkozy with an extra large head? Surely other grudges are possible …and 12 of how many?
…and do you ordinarily leave your ID in a car? If so, … are you also on any prescription medication?
Al Qaida was an invention of the "nice US President Jimmy Carter" in 1979. He is the father of this US-killer fraction of Islamists!
Here is the proof of his security-advicer Brzezinski, he said:
“…, secretly guarded until now, is completely otherwise Indeed, it was July 3, 1979 that President Carter signed the first directive for secret aid to the opponents of the pro-Soviet regime in Kabul. And that very day, I wrote a note to the president in which I explained to him that in my opinion this aid was going to induce a Soviet military intervention. That secret operation was an excellent idea. It had the effect of drawing the Russians into the Afghan trap and (…) giving to the USSR its Vietnam war.”
Of course these "opponents" , the new Islamist killing fraction called Al Qaeda required to first being created:
Washington Post, 23 March 2002:
“The United States spent millions of dollars to supply Afghan schoolchildren with textbooks filled with violent images and militant Islamic teachings….The primers, which were filled with talk of jihad and featured drawings of guns, bullets, soldiers and mines, have served since then as the Afghan school system’s core curriculum. Even the Taliban used the American-produced books,..”,
This long-term planning fits well to the long list of wars where USA did apply its Al CIAda killer Islamists: in wars like in Yugoslavia (Bosnia, Kosovo), Chechnya, Iraq, Sudan, Yemen, Somalia, Libya, Syria, Mali, etc.
Just in non-Islamic countries, they use their fascists of their NATO Gladio organization: e.g. Croatian or Ukrainan Fascist like Jazeniuk.
Antisemitism has long been strong in France (Dreyfus!). That sentiment has been replaced in France by a rampant anti-Muslimism mostly outside the big cities. That sentiment does not justify any murder but it is the social framework within which these murders have occurred a fact that has been ignored by most commentators.
One reason why there are so many Muslims in France is because the French colony of Algeria was declared a Departement (province) of France in 1848. Residents of Algeria which had not had the French citizenship before 1848 could now apply for citizenship.
Another fact which most commentators ignore is that many Jews who were expelled from Spain in 1492 found an open door in the Ottoman empire. Numerous Jews settled in Salonika where they were eventually killed by the goons of a Christian nation. How does that fit with the notion that Muslims are ordered by the Koran to kill all infidels?
Leaving aside the fact that "experienced" killers usually don't take along their wallets / ID on a mission, we're supposed to believe that as the killers fled the scene one of the first things they did was pull out those ID's – to check if they could drive legally? – only to "forget" them when the vehicle was abandoned. This incident has "Gladio" written all over it. http://www.copi.com/articles/guyatt/gladio.html
Patsies identified and caught through careless discarding of personal ID? Check.
Commando thugs escape? Check?
French gov't chastened after voicing support for Palestinian state? Check.
French gov't re-think on Russian sanctions maybe halted? Check.
Any Saudi-Mossad connections ignored? Check.
Rabid Islamophobes like Peter King calling for over-the-top retaliation? Check.
These seem to always happen curiously if and when a US client-poodle-colony remembers it has a brain and its own interests and starts to think it can act on its own.
Sorry, but we've all seen this show before and know how it plays out.
French do rethink on Russia sanctions. My first thought last night. Tragic killing of civilians to silence them even though they were much too intent on agitating. This must be condemned as strongly as Israeli actions against Palestinians for seeking the protection of the ICC.
"…we've all seen this show before…"
"Three Days of the Condor" springs to mind.
When the Nazi armies invaded France the Jew Herschel Grynszpan who had murdered an attache (named vom Rath) of the German embassy in Paris in 1938 moved towards the South of France via Orleans and Bourges to Toulouse where he voluntarily entered a French prison. When the Germans demanded that he be extradited to Germany the Vichy government complied. For propaganda purposes Goering kept him alive. Herschel was most likely murdered in a concentration camp during the last weeks of WW2 in Europe. His parents and siblings had escaped via Poland to the Soviet Union.
My point is that the mass of the French people did not try to save this young man from a certain death in Germany. Not before the invasion of 1940 nor thereafter. There were no huge demonstrations with the slogan "je suis Herschel" and the demand that he be freed (he was in French jail until allowed to evacuate from Paris) and allowed to join his family in the Soviet Union. I am not even certain that France has ever apologized to his family for the cowardly behavior of one of its former governments. Quite a few Jews escaped via the Pyrenees to Spain during the German occupation. With the clandestine help of the Vichy government and false papers Herschel could have made it via Spain to the British Mandate of Palestine in late 1944. Allied pressure on Franco would have prevented that he would have been returned to France.
Jan 7, 2015 Gun Attack on French Satirical Magazine: This Just In
A manhunt is underway in Paris, where earlier today three masked gunmen attacked the offices of French satirical magazine 'Charlie Hebdo'. At least 12 people were killed, including the magazine's editor and two police officers.
http://youtu.be/voMnYeyOzwM
"The three suspects were identified as Said Kouachi and Cherif Kouachi, …"
"Two black-hooded men.."
They identified quickly for hooded men?
First the were unknown assailants,then suddenly they are identified.
Did they,authority,knew about about beforehand and let happen?It sounds similar to another terrorist attack?
I think they conveniently left their ID in the getaway car – after they crashed it and carjacked another one.
But that of course is to throw off the police.
That's very clumsy of them?Weren't they professional??
French comic banned: Victory for French values?
"the interior ministry's advice to the country's prefects to ban the comedian from performing if they deemed public order at risk. Dieudonné, at the beginning of a national tour, thus received his first ban on Thursday morning ahead of a planned performance in Nantes.
His lawyer immediately appealed and an administrative court overturned the ban. The interior minister then appealed to France's highest jurisdiction which decided to uphold the ban on Thursday evening. A similar legal wrangling is expected to take place in every town where Dieudonné is supposed to perform. French President Francois Hollande weighed in the debate, giving all his support to his Interior minister.
So far, France's public opinion and the media have been split over the issue of the ban. France may not have a First Amendment, but censorship is not considered lightly. There may be an understanding that freedom of speech stops where incitement to hatred begins and the French, in their majority, think that Dieudonné has gone much too far. However, is the ban in danger of giving publicity to Dieudonné? His shows are now selling fast.
Others, such as French philosopher Bernard Henry Levy, argue that Dieudonné ceased long ago to be an artist and that his virulent anti-Semitism shouldn't be seen as artistic license: "This is not humor anymore, this is political," he said. And why should Dieudonné be indeed treated differently than Marine Le Pen?
The French government is walking a fine line between censorship and the respect of republican values; it looks however as if it has won the first round against racism."
http://www.cnn.com/2014/01/10/opinion/opinion-poi…
Good call. How does banning Dieudonne work but banning the out and out hate speech of Charlie Hebdo is out of the question?
Ah, because of who he offended! Got it! Glad to see the French moral compass is pointing squarely due north – no double standards here!
Make fun of jews = bad, make fun of Muslims = Good.
Hollande backs ban on ‘anti-Semitic’ comedian Dieudonné
"French President François Hollande on Tuesday backed attempts to ban shows by a controversial French comedian who the government accuses of threatening public order with his anti-Semitic comments."
http://www.france24.com/en/20140107-hollande-back…
"Time to silence him’
Roger Cukierman, the president of CRIF, the main French Jewish lobby, applauded the decision in an interview with French television channel i>TELE.
“It’s a step in the right direction,(( because if we continue letting him do as he pleases, violence could result,))??
” he said. “It’s time to silence him. He’s no longer a comic; he has become a peddler of hate.”
http://www.france24.com/en/20131227-dieudonne-fra…
Any one remember Helen Thomas ?How many of those defenders ,guardians of,and advocates of freedom of expression ,press,speech came to her defense?
Why is that breaking news that is polluting our eyes and ears? This type of event is normal everyday life for Iraqis, Yemenis, Syrians, Libyans, Afghanis and others and I don't see no fuss or even reporting over it. I feel sorry for ALL the victims but blow it out of your noses MSM.
From CBS News in Paris: "…one of the officers killed, 42-year-old Ahmed Merabet, was Muslim. He is believed to be the officer who was executed in the street as he was pleading for his life."
A MUSLIM cop challenged the AK47s of the assassins with a pistol, was severely wounded, and they executed him.
He died trying to make France safer for the same bigots who are shrieking for the blood of ALL Muslims.
What a dope he was, eh?!