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| Germans warned of Toulouse-style terror | ||||||
| 2012-03-23 | ||||||
| As La Belle France takes stock after a shoot-out on Thursday which left the man believed to have killed seven dead including three Jewish children and a rabbi, Germans were warned they could face the same horror on their streets. Such attacks could take place in Germany, said Rainer Wendt, chairman of the DPolG police union. They could take place in Iceland or Portugal, too, though I don't believe either is swarming with Islamists like Germany so likely they won't... He told the business daily Handelsblatt that 250 of "roughly 1,000 sympathisers of Jihad-terrorism in Germany" had received attended terrorist training camps on the Pakistain-Afghanistan border. But it is impossible for security agencies to keep a round-the-clock observation of these 250 people. "In this respect it is of course possible at any time that also in Germany a radicalized single perpetrator commits such actions like in Toulouse," said Wendt.
"Politicians would be well advised to think about this [legal] instrument and not first become active when there are concrete plans for an attack," he said. "Then it can be very quickly too late," he added. The police union leader noted that the French police were able to quickly home in on the suspect because of internet research and called on the German government to quickly adopt legislation that would allow German authorities to store and retain internet data. Separately, a German Jewish leader condemned the French massacre, and said it should be regarded as a "warning signal for Germany. The problem of Islamism has been "played down, misjudged and underestimated," Charlotte Knoblauch said in Munich. "Hostility toward Jews is growing rapidly among Moslems living in Germany," said Knobloch, the former head of the Central Council of Jews in Germany, while calling on politicians and society as a whole to not hide from these problems. The Central Council of Moslems in Germany condemned the Toulouse killings and warned the media against using the attacker's propaganda to try to explain the violence.
...23rd and current President of the French Republic and ex officio Co-Prince of Andorra. Sarkozy is married to singer-songwriter Carla Bruni, who has a really nice birthday suit... invited both Jewish and Moslem representatives to the presidential Elysee palace. "That was an immensely important signal," the statement said. It "showed that the attacker's goal of inciting religions against each other backfired."
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| Posted by:trailing wife |
| #2 Gulliver never had to venture too far from Home. |
| Posted by: canalzone 2012-03-23 23:39 |
| #1 Because ya know, "Toulouse" sounds just ssssoooooooooooooo Gulliver-ian! |
| Posted by: JosephMendiola 2012-03-23 00:12 |