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2015-01-08 Europe

French Police Identify 3 Suspects In Attack That Killed 12

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Posted by Fred 2015-01-08 00:00|| || Front Page|| [10 views ] Top
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#1 Darn Amish, why do they hate us so?

Posted by Steven 2015-01-08 03:17|| 2015-01-08 03:17|| Front Page Top

#2 Reuters: U.S. news media avoid Islam cartoons linked to deadly attack

(Reuters) - Leading U.S. news outlets mostly declined to show controversial cartoons of the Muslim Prophet Mohammad on Wednesday after suspected Islamist gunmen in Paris killed 12 people at the French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo.

Online news sources the Daily Beast and Slate published the cartoons, but major U.S. publications, including the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, Reuters and the Associated Press, did not. Some said their guidelines call for avoiding publishing images or other material intended at offending religious sensibilities...The Associated Press said it cropped a 2012 photo of Charlie Hebdo editor Stephane Charbonnier, killed in the attack, to exclude a cartoon of Mohammad on a magazine he held in his hands.

Posted by Anguper Hupomosing9418 2015-01-08 04:09|| 2015-01-08 04:09|| Front Page Top

#3 Police officer wounded in southern Paris shootout: police
(Reuters) - A police officer was wounded in a shootout in southern Paris on Thursday, a police source told Reuters, adding that it was unclear at this stage whether there was any link to the killings at the Charlie Hebdo magazine.

Posted by Anguper Hupomosing9418 2015-01-08 04:10|| 2015-01-08 04:10|| Front Page Top

#4 For the cops ambushed this morning these were not "real cops" but city cops. I al nit even sure they were armed since they are more supposed to deal with traffic infractions than with serious crime. The two of them where fired upon without warning apparently with a Kalashnikov. One of the cops, a female, is dead.

Posted by JFM 2015-01-08 07:18|| 2015-01-08 07:18|| Front Page Top

#5 When I was in the Army we used to drill attacking editorial offices all the time. That's what real soldiers do, y'know.

Bill Maher's rejoinder would be that they don't exactly have the full resources of a 66m strong nation-state behind them, and you gotta start somewhere. Marauding nomads on horseback were once derided for cowardice as they loosed showers of arrows on infantry from their compound bows, beating a tactical retreat and repeating the same maneuver over and over. It's the nature of the beast. Insurgents will use every unfair edge they have in order to overcome their outsized inferiority in resources.

Back in the day, when the imbalance wasn't this large, rulers responded with collective punishment - either expulsion, or in extremis, the root and branch extermination of the family, district or sect of the rebels. Given the isolated nature of the attack, the odds are that the French state will shrug it off and go on with business as usual. The political impact should be interesting to see. Will Le Pen benefit, and how much?

Posted by Zhang Fei 2015-01-08 08:11|| 2015-01-08 08:11|| Front Page Top

#6 My guess is that Hollande will respond by increasing French participation in the bombing attacks on ISIS, which will cause the organization to put pressure on hotheads in France to lie low.

Posted by Zhang Fei 2015-01-08 08:21|| 2015-01-08 08:21|| Front Page Top

#7 For the two cops shot this morrining in fact it was a female cop and a street cleaning employee. The famel cop didn't have a gun since she was just a city cop.

A suspect has been arrested and he is supposed not to be linked to terrorism or the Charlie Hebdo shootings. He was wearing a flak jacket but it was only for warming. Real.

Posted by JFM 2015-01-08 09:29|| 2015-01-08 09:29|| Front Page Top

#8 I got it wring. The guy arrested is no the shooter and wasn't wearing a flack jacket.

Posted by JFM 2015-01-08 09:35|| 2015-01-08 09:35|| Front Page Top

#9 Well, I got it wrong yesterday with my 'possible female shooter' analysis.

Posted by Besoeker 2015-01-08 10:22|| 2015-01-08 10:22|| Front Page Top

#10 Drudge is reporting the female police officer has died.

Posted by Deacon Blues 2015-01-08 11:12|| 2015-01-08 11:12|| Front Page Top

#11 Fears have been running high in La Belle France and elsewhere in Europe that jihadis returning from conflicts in Syria and Iraq will stage attacks at home.

Is the question so obvious that nobody will ask it?

Why let them return?

Posted by Ebbang Uluque6305 2015-01-08 16:02|| 2015-01-08 16:02|| Front Page Top

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