Islamist Terrorism in the West

[George S.]

I saw how isis was formed by the usa also they like ordering around countries like Macedonia.Also the cia is responsible for all the wars going around the world.

[DraganOfStip]

So much solidarity with the French in these hard times for them.

But no more than 24 hours before the Paris attacks, 2 suicide bombers blew themselves up in Beirut,Lebanon killing almost 50 people and wounding over 200 others.ISIS took responsibility there as well.
And yet the world just passed on the "news" and remained silent.

Let's not forget the recent Russian jet tragedy,with more and more evidence surfacing that it was a terrorist attack rather than an accident as the Russians claim.
When those 220 people perished,did the world pray for Russia?

In April this year around 150 Kenyan art students (all of them Christian) were massacred in their university and again there was no such support for the Kenyan people when that event took place.
No world leader even gave it significance, let alone proclaim it as an "attack on the entire world".
But no,this is Paris and this is an attack on the world itself,the French are superior to Lebanese and Kenyan people.

It may be cruel to say this,but the French had this coming.
In the 1999 NATO bombing on Yugoslavia some 4000 civilians were killed and over 12500 wounded,French planes were a part of this operation.
No one seemed to mind this,and the French & their allies consider these people to be nothing more than "collateral damage".

They are the ones that started the Libya attacks,immediately followed by their allies which plummeted that country in a bloody civil war and chaos until this very day.

Let's not forget they (as a part of NATO and EU) supported the terrorists in the 2001 conflict.They were also one of the first countries to recognize the self-proclaimed independence of Kosovo.

They have too much blood on their hands in order for someone to sympathize with them.
The sad thing is that innocent civilians paid the price for their wrongdoings (a policy all too frequent throughout history).
So I'm sorry but no,I won't pray for Paris.

[Risto the Great]

Paris is a lovely city. It will always get sympathy for something like this. But you definitely have logic in your argument.

[Gocka]

I wouldn't go as far as to say that the French deserved it but it is quite annoying at best and sickening at worst that lives of Americans, French, English, and German people are some how more valuable than the lives of anyone else. This sense of superiority is not new, read some of the literature from the 18th and 19th century about Macedonia, the talk about us like we are little children or wild animals. There is a real superiority complex present.

You can also say that in the 21st century we are so desensitized to everything that we can not empathize with others until we experience these things first hand. Sadly this empathetic rush will probably last a few weeks, and then it will be back to old ways.

The truth is we should feel the way we do about the French, about everyone who is attacked in this manner. The world should have took notice of ISIS when they were beheading people, and lighting people on fire in a cage. They should have took notice when their barbarism caused millions of people to flee from their homes. But those people who were suffering, we not as important and thus our response muted.

Terrorists planned attacks in Macedonia, killed a dozen policemen but could have killed dozens of innocents too, yet the world laughed at us. They said it was ethnic tension at best. I hope (although I doubt) this opens peoples eyes to the horrors that people all over the world face, and raises our level of concern and unity for everyone.

[Gocka]

Two years ago, when all the talk was about sending weapons to the "moderate" rebels in Syria, I said that they are not moderate. The President of Syria said, these people are not rebels, they are terrorists. Here we are 2 years later, and there is no more free Syrian army, there is ISIS. Two years ago when I said this to people, they looked at me like I had 2 heads.

I hate hate hate, conspiracy theories. But how else do you explain helping create this brutal psychotic death cult, standing idly by while they terrorize the world, letting them grow and grow under our noses? The only explanation is that you let them grow big enough so that they end up being a formidable foe. How else do you stimulate a broken and crumbling economy? By war, the same way we always stimulate the economy.

Truth in Media: The Origin of ISIS (video)

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[George S.]

Paris suicide vests mark change of tactics and new threat


AFP

Bertrand Guay

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Fingerprints recovered from Belgian-registered black Seat Leon as Serbian paper names owner of Syrian passport found near suicide bomber.

Police find car with AK-47s

The suicide vests used by Friday's attackers in Paris -- a first in France -- were made by a highly skilled professional who could still be at large in Europe, intelligence and security experts say.

All seven of the militants wore identical explosive vests and did not hesitate to blow themselves up -- a worrying change of tactic for jihadists targeting France.

Unlike the attacks in London in 2005 where the bombers' explosives were stored in backpacks, Friday's attackers used the sort of suicide vests normally associated with bombings in the Middle East.

"Suicide vests require a munitions specialist. To make a reliable and effective explosive is not something anyone can do," a former French intelligence chief told AFP, speaking on condition of anonymity.


A small French flag reading 'All together we love you,' hangs from a bullet hole in a bakery next to the Le Belle Equipe cafe, one site of the attacks on November 13, 2015© Provided by AFP A small French flag reading 'All together we love you,' hangs from a bullet hole in a bakery next to the Le Belle Equipe cafe, one site of the attacks on November 13, 2015
"A munitions specialist is someone who is used to handling explosives, who knows how to make them, to arrange them in a way that the belt or vest is not so unwieldy that the person can't move," he added.

"And it must also not blow up by accident."





French authorities say the vests appeared to have been made with TATP, or acetone peroxyde, that is easy for amateurs to make at home but is highly unstable.

The vests also included a battery, a detonation button and shrapnel to maximise injuries.

"They didn't bring these vests from Syria: the more you shake these things, the more you multiply the risks," said the former intelligence chief.

"It's very likely he is here, in France or Europe, one or several guys who have come back from jihadist areas and who learned over there."

'Not cannon fodder'


A pair of discarded shoes near the Bataclan concert hall, one of six targetted sites of the Paris attacks on November 13, 2015© Provided by AFP A pair of discarded shoes near the Bataclan concert hall, one of six targetted sites of the Paris attacks on November 13, 2015
Three specialists contacted by AFP said it was probable the vests were made by someone outside the group that carried out the attacks.

"The explosive specialist is too precious. He never participates in attacks," said Alain Chouet, a former director at France's DGSE external intelligence agency.

"So he's around, somewhere."

"The bomb-maker is not cannon fodder," added Pierre Martinet, another former DGSE official who now works in corporate security.

"He's there to make more suicide vests and allow other guys to carry out actions."

Making a vest is extremely complicated.

"It can't be done in a couple of days," said the former intelligence chief. "It takes weeks of training, and you have to work under the watch of a 'master'. It's meticulous work."

On the eve of the UN global climate conference in the northern suburbs of Paris later this month, followed by New Year's celebrations and next year's Euro 2016 football championships, concerns are high.

"It's extremely worrying," said the retired intelligence chief who asked not to be named.

"Every service is on tenterhooks."

[George S.]

Paris suicide vests mark change of tactics and new threat


AFP

Bertrand Guay

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The suicide vests used by Friday's attackers in Paris -- a first in France -- were made by a highly skilled professional who could still be at large in Europe, intelligence and security experts say.

All seven of the militants wore identical explosive vests and did not hesitate to blow themselves up -- a worrying change of tactic for jihadists targeting France.

Unlike the attacks in London in 2005 where the bombers' explosives were stored in backpacks, Friday's attackers used the sort of suicide vests normally associated with bombings in the Middle East.

"Suicide vests require a munitions specialist. To make a reliable and effective explosive is not something anyone can do," a former French intelligence chief told AFP, speaking on condition of anonymity.


A small French flag reading 'All together we love you,' hangs from a bullet hole in a bakery next to the Le Belle Equipe cafe, one site of the attacks on November 13, 2015© Provided by AFP A small French flag reading 'All together we love you,' hangs from a bullet hole in a bakery next to the Le Belle Equipe cafe, one site of the attacks on November 13, 2015
"A munitions specialist is someone who is used to handling explosives, who knows how to make them, to arrange them in a way that the belt or vest is not so unwieldy that the person can't move," he added.

"And it must also not blow up by accident."


French authorities say the vests appeared to have been made with TATP, or acetone peroxyde, that is easy for amateurs to make at home but is highly unstable.

The vests also included a battery, a detonation button and shrapnel to maximise injuries.

"They didn't bring these vests from Syria: the more you shake these things, the more you multiply the risks," said the former intelligence chief.

"It's very likely he is here, in France or Europe, one or several guys who have come back from jihadist areas and who learned over there."

'Not cannon fodder'


A pair of discarded shoes near the Bataclan concert hall, one of six targetted sites of the Paris attacks on November 13, 2015© Provided by AFP A pair of discarded shoes near the Bataclan concert hall, one of six targetted sites of the Paris attacks on November 13, 2015
Three specialists contacted by AFP said it was probable the vests were made by someone outside the group that carried out the attacks.

"The explosive specialist is too precious. He never participates in attacks," said Alain Chouet, a former director at France's DGSE external intelligence agency.

"So he's around, somewhere."

"The bomb-maker is not cannon fodder," added Pierre Martinet, another former DGSE official who now works in corporate security.

"He's there to make more suicide vests and allow other guys to carry out actions."

Making a vest is extremely complicated.

"It can't be done in a couple of days," said the former intelligence chief. "It takes weeks of training, and you have to work under the watch of a 'master'. It's meticulous work."

On the eve of the UN global climate conference in the northern suburbs of Paris later this month, followed by New Year's celebrations and next year's Euro 2016 football championships, concerns are high.

"It's extremely worrying," said the retired intelligence chief who asked not to be named.

"Every service is on tenterhooks."

[George S.]

Revealed: Two of the Jihadis sneaked into Europe via Greece by posing as refugees and being rescued from a sinking migrant boat - and survivors say one of the attackers was a WOMAN
Ahmed Almuhamed, 25, believed have been in terror squad at the Bataclan concert hall before blowing himself up
French police revealed his Syrian passport was found on a bomber's body who registered as a refugee in Greece
Ferry tickets from October 3 reveal he travelled to Europe with a Mohammed Almuhamed, who may be a relation
Authorities believe at least two of the terror cell traveled from Syria, through Turkey and into Greece since summer
A second passport, from Egypt, was found on the body of another bomber who took part in the Paris terror attack
Homegrown terrorist Omar Ismaël Mostefai , 29, identified as a gig bomber by fingerprint from severed digit
Seven terrorists killed themselves using suicide belts while another was shot dead by police at the Bataclan gig
Paris attacks have left 129 dead and 352 injured - 99 of which are in a critical condition. 30 of dead not yet identified
See more of the latest news and updates on the ISIS attacks on Paris
By IAN GALLAGHER and MARTIN BECKFORD FOR THE MAIL ON SUNDAY and MARTIN ROBINSON FOR MAILONLINE
PUBLISHED: 23:14 EST, 14 November 2015 | UPDATED: 05:15 EST, 16 November 2015
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This is the face of one of the Paris killers who allegedly sneaked into France by posing as a refugee after being rescued from a sinking migrant boat as it emerged a woman and three brothers may have been part of the eight-strong ISIS kamikaze terror squad.
Serbian media claims Ahmed Almuhamed, 25, whose Syrian passport was found on the body of a suicide bomber, allegedly blew himself up at the Bataclan concert hall, where at least 89 people were slaughtered on Friday.
The newspaper, Blic, claims Almuhamed arrived with another of the bombers in Europe on the Greek island of Leros on October 3 on his way to Paris. Greek website Protothema have published ferry tickets showing the name of a second man, Mohammed Almuhamed, who could be a relation.
French police are hunting 26-year-old Salah Abdeslam, from Brussels, who is accused of renting a Volkswagen Polo used by the suicide bombers who killed 89 people at the Bataclan music venue on Friday.
His brother Ibrahim is believed to have blown himself up during the Paris siege and a third unnamed sibling has been arrested in the Belgian capital.
An official told the Washington Post another of the shooters was Bilal Hadfi, who was from Belgium and had spent time fighting with ISIS in Syria, who also died after detonating his suicide vest during a murderous rampage.
One of the attackers has been named locally as homegrown terrorist Omar Ismaël Mostefai , 29, from Courcouronnes, Paris. The petty criminal was known to police as a radical and identified by the fingerprint on a severed digit found after he detonated his suicide belt.
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Wanted man: Serbian media says this is 25-year-old Ahmed Almuhamed, whose Syrian passport is pictured, who blew himself up at the Bataclan concert hall and is believed to have sneaked into France with another terrorist by posing as refugees from Syria
Tickets: A Greek website has uncovered the terror suspect's ferry tickets to Greece and shows he was travelling with a Mohammed Almuhamed, likely to be a relation
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Tickets: A Greek website has uncovered the terror suspect's ferry tickets to Greece and shows he was travelling with a Mohammed Almuhamed, likely to be a relation
Travel log: Ahmed Almuhamed has been accused of being a suicide bomber at the Bataclan concert hall and is believed to be travelling with another member of the terror squad
Travel log: Ahmed Almuhamed has been accused of being a suicide bomber at the Bataclan concert hall and is believed to be travelling with another member of the terror squad
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THE VITAL CLUES MISSED IN EUROPE BEFORE THE MASSACRE
A series of vital clues appear to have been missed that could have averted the Paris atrocities.
Iraqi intelligence warned US-led coalition countries of an imminent assault the day before the Paris attacks, it has emerged.
At least one of the terrorists was a Parisian who had been on a terror watch list for five years, but was not being monitored closely enough to be stopped before he took part in the murderous attack.
Greek authorities believe that two of the gunmen sneaked into Europe posing as a refugee from Syria – heightening fears that not enough security checks are being carried out on migrants.
In May this year, The Mail on Sunday revealed the concerns of security analysts that Islamic State extremists were being smuggled into Europe among refugees crossing the Mediterranean.
More than a week ago, a heavily-armed suspect was stopped in Germany on his way to Paris. Hidden in his car, police found a terrifying arsenal, including seven Kalashnikov assault rifles and seven hand grenades. The destination programmed into his satnav system was Paris but officers failed to alert anti-terror police. The 51-year-old driver, a Muslim from Montenegro, was arrested and held in custody but has refused to talk.
In August, French intelligence detained a 30-year-old man on his way back from Syria who said militants were planning attacks on French concert halls.
Prosecutors also said the terrorists used an improved explosive known as TATP, or triacetone triperoxide, which also was used in the 2005 bombings in London and were likely to be homemade with ingredients usually traced by the secret services.
French intelligence and security services had been reorganised in the wake of the Charlie Hebdo massacres, which left 16 dead in January. A former senior intelligence officer very familiar with France said he and a lot of French intelligence officials think that after two internal services — the Central Directorate of General Intelligence (RG) and the Directorate of Territorial Surveillance (DST) — were merged, it created a larger, but far weaker, General Directorate for Internal Security.
Alain Charret, an expert on France’s surveillance system, said it was hard for the military to be everywhere and for intelligence to predict everything, 'but the reason why it is usually difficult to track people is because one or two people on their own are involved — here, it seems like it was a big group of organized people, so it should have been tracked more easily.'
Investigators are now investigating claims that he went to Syria last year, and may have spent time training with ISIS terrorists.
Survivors have claimed that a woman was among the group shooting randomly into the crowd at the Eagles of Death Metal gig before three blew themselves up and a fourth person was shot dead by police before they could detonate their bomb.
At least 129 people died and another 99 were injured in Paris on Friday night after eight terrorists, including one as young as 15, attacked the Stade de France, restaurants and the packed Bataclan concert hall armed with AK-47s, grenades and wearing suicide vests.
More than 350 were injured - 99 of which are in a critical condition - and 30 of the dead have not yet been identified.
It is believed two of the bombers were carrying Syrian passports. At least two others are believed to be French while several could also be Belgian.
Prosecutors in Brussels have said two attackers killed in Paris were Frenchmen who lived in the Belgian capital and that two vehicles used in the terror attack were rented in Belgium.
The disclosure that some may have entered Europe as migrants, which came amid claims of French intelligence failures, inevitably raises new security concerns about the safety of Europe's borders.
Meanwhile the black Seat Leon used by the terrorists who murdered diners outside the Casa Nostra pizza restaurant and the La Belle Équipe cafe has been found abandoned 20 minutes away in Montreuil with three AK-47s with five full magazines and 11 empty ones.
Paris prosecutor Francois Molins said on Saturday that gunmen armed with automatic weapons pulled up in that model of car before opening fire, killing 15 people and injuring 10.
On the second day after the worst terror attack in French history it has emerged:
French police are hunting for two gunmen on the run after Friday's attacks and an ISIS bombmaker likely to have made the suicide vests
One is known to be 26-year-old Salah Abdeslam, from Brussels, who is accused of renting a Volkswagen Polo used by the suicide bombers who killed 89 people at the Bataclan music venue
A Seat car used in drive-by shootings at two restaurants was found abandoned containing three AK-47s with five full magazines and 11 empty ones
One of Bataclan suspects was found carrying a Syrian passport under the name Ahmed Almuhamed who travelled to France as a migrant through Greece. Ferry tickets reveal he travelled with another man named as Mohammed Almuhamed.
Frenchman Omar Ismaël Mostefai, 29, also named as a Bataclan suicide bomber who was identified by his severed finger. Mostefai's father, a brother and other family members have been held and are being questioned.
Mostefai said to have been radicalised by a Belgian hate preacher of Moroccan descent said to have regularly preached at his mosque
Bataclan survivors claim that one of the four shooters was a woman
Seven people were detained in Belgium linked to the atrocities - five in Brussels district known as a 'den of terrorists'
Ahmed Almuhamed is believed to have taken around a month to travel to France posing as a migrant. He had entered Serbia at Miratovce, having crossed the frontier from Macedonia. The newspaper reported that Almuhamed, applied for asylum in Serbia in Presevo before crossing into Croatia and Austria.
Paris prosecutors confirmed that the suspects, all wearing explosive vests, roamed across the French capital in three teams, perpetrating the 'worst acts of violence' in the country since the Second World War. Fingerprint records show that two of the terrorists had arrived in the EU as refugees through Greece.
A Syrian passport found near the body of one of the gunmen had passed through the Greek island of Leros on October 3.
On October 5 they used their Syrian passports to travel to the port of Piraeus on Mainland Greece before arriving in Serbia on October 7.
The Syrian passport was registered in October in Serbia and Croatia, two of the countries on the corridor crossing the Balkans. The owner was allowed to proceed because he passed what is essentially the only test in place - he had no international arrest warrant against him.
It is still not yet clear if the Syrian passport is fake or real, or if it belonged to the dead bomber. European officials say there is a brisk trade in fake Syrian passports to help people get refugee status in the EU.
Greece's deputy minister in charge of police, Nikos Toscas, said he was 'identified [as a refugee] according to EU rules' as he passed through the country, but did not know if it was checked elsewhere en route to Paris. In all, 129 people were killed in a series of co-ordinated bomb and gun attacks on Friday night. With 99 of the 352 wounded critically ill, the death toll is expected to rise.
Six of the terrorists, believed to be from Islamic State who appear to have formed their own international terror cell, took their own lives, while one was shot dead by police.
The first Jihadi suicide bomber named in connection with the Paris terrorist attacks that left at least 129 people dead was Is Omar Ismail Mostefai, who was identified by his finger.
The digit was found among the carnage of the Bataclan concert hall, where the 29-year-old was one of three men who blew himself up killing 89 men, women and children.
Born on 21 November 1985, in the Paris suburb of Courcouronnes, Mostefai's criminal record shows eight convictions for petty crimes between 2004 and 2010.
He had never been jailed but Paris prosecutor Francois Molins said Mostefai had been picked out as a high-priority target for radicalisation in 2010 He added that Mostefai had 'never been implicated in an investigation or a terrorist association'.
Police have also detained members of his family for questioning. Mostefai's father, a brother and other family members have been held and are being questioned.
PARIS ATTACKS: WHAT WE KNOW SO FAR ABOUT THE DEADLIEST TERROR ATTACK TO HIT EUROPE IN A DECADE
At least 129 people are dead, and another 352 injured, after three teams of jihadis struck the Stade de France football stadium, a handful of bars and cafes, and then finally the Bataclan concert hall.
FIRST TWO ATTACKS: STADE DE FRANCE
- The attacks began at 8.17pm GMT at the Stade de France where the French football team was hosting Germany in an international friendly.
- The game was being watched by 80,000 spectators, among them was President Francois Hollande who had to be evacuated from the stadium.
- The first explosion, a suicide bombing, was at an entrance to the stadium. A guard said an explosives vest was found on one of the attackers as he was frisked trying to enter with a ticket. While trying to back away from security officers the militant detonated his vest. A second terrorist is believed to have blown himself minutes later. One person was killed in the explosions.
THIRD ATTACK: LE PETIT CAMBODGE AND LE CARILLON BAR
- At 8.25pm GMT a separate team of gunmen arrived in a Black Seat and attacked diners at popular Cambodian restaurant Le Petit Cambodge and Le Carillon bar in the trendy Canal Saint-Martin area of eastern Paris, killing 15.
FOURTH ATTACK: LA CASA NOSTRA PIZZERIA AND LA BELLE EQUIPE BAR
- The same unit then drove about 500 yards to La Casa Nostra pizzeria and opened fire on diners on the terrace of the restaurant, killing at least five people.
- From there, the militants drove around a mile south-east – apparently past the area of the Bataclan concert venue – to launch another attack, this time on La Belle Equipe bar in Rue de Charonne. At least 19 people died after the terrace was sprayed with bullets at 8.38pm GMT. The attackers then drove off.
FIFTH ATTACK: CAFÉ ‘COMPTOIR VOLTAIRE’
- Five minutes later, a separate attacker set off a suicide vest outside the outside cafe 'Comptoir Voltaire' on the Boulevard Voltaire and close to the Bataclan theatre.
SIXTH ATTACK: BATACLAN MUSIC HALL
- At 8.49pm GMT, the third group (believed to be three men and a woman) armed with AK-47s stormed the Bataclan music hall and began shooting members of the crowd. Survivors claim three blew themselves up and a fourth person was shot dead by police before they could detonate their bomb.
SEVENTH ATTACK: NEAR STADE DE FRANCE
At around 8.50pm GMT a third blast took place near the Stade de France, this time by a McDonald’s restaurant on the fringes of the stadium. The boom caused terror among spectators who had already been attempting to flee the stadium following the first two explosions.
Aftermath:
On Saturday morning, ISIS claimed responsibility for the attacks across Paris, saying 'eight brothers wearing explosive belts and carrying assault rifles' conducted a 'blessed attack on... Crusader France'.
On Saturday afternoon, three people travelling in a grey VW Polo were arrested at the French/Belgian border when police traced the car after it was sighted outside the Bataclan theatre at the time of the attacks.
- One of the Bataclan suspects was found carrying a Syrian passport under the name Ahmed Almuhamed who travelled to France as a migrant through Greece on October 3. Ferry tickets reveal he travelled with another man named as Mohammed Almuhamed.
- Omar Ismaël Mostefai, 29, from Courcouronnes, Paris was also named as a Bataclan suicide bomber. The petty criminal and father-of-one was known to police as a radical and had travelled to Algeria and Syria. He was identified by the fingerprint on a severed digit found after he detonated his suicide belt. Mostefai is believed to have been radicalised by a Belgian hate preacher of Moroccan descent claimed to have regularly preached at his mosque in South West France.
- Mostefai's father, a brother and other family members have been held and are being questioned.
- The black Seat Leon used by the terrorists who murdered diners outside the Casa Nostra pizza restaurant and the La Belle Équipe cafe was found abandoned 20 minutes away in Montreuil with a cache of weapons inside.
- Seven people were detained in Belgium linked to the atrocities - three at the border and four in Brussels. Five are from the Molenbeek area of Brussels known as a 'den of terrorists'.
- French media reports suggest three of the men involved were brothers, but police have not confirmed the reports.
- French police are still hunting for two gunmen on the run and an ISIS bombmaker likely to have made the suicide vests.
This is the remains of one of the suicide bomber who targeted 80,000 fans at the Stade de France during a football match on Friday
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This is the remains of one of the suicide bomber who targeted 80,000 fans at the Stade de France during a football match on Friday
At least two of the terrorists is believed to have left Syria, travelled through Turkey and registered as a refugee on the Greek island of Leros on October 3 before continuing his journey northwards eventually arriving in Paris
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At least two of the terrorists is believed to have left Syria, travelled through Turkey and registered as a refugee on the Greek island of Leros on October 3 before continuing his journey northwards eventually arriving in Paris
Police officer searches car linked to the Paris attacks
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Up to eight bombers carried out the devastating attacks, leaving 128 people dead and as many as 200 people injured in Paris. The times are in French time
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Up to eight bombers carried out the devastating attacks, leaving 128 people dead and as many as 200 people injured in Paris. The times are in French time
Place of worship: Mostefai is said to have regularly attended the mosque in Luce, close to Chartres, south-west of Paris, pictured today with president Abdallah Benali and vice president Karim Benay. It is claimed that Mostefai was radicalised by an unnamed Belgian hate preacher who spoke at the mosque
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Place of worship: Mostefai is said to have regularly attended the mosque in Luce, close to Chartres, south-west of Paris, pictured today with president Abdallah Benali and vice president Karim Benay. It is claimed that Mostefai was radicalised by an unnamed Belgian hate preacher who spoke at the mosque
Home: A view of the house where Omar Ismael Mostefai, one of the suicide bombers who took part in the attack on the Bataclan theatre, lived two years ago
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Home: A view of the house where Omar Ismael Mostefai, one of the suicide bombers who took part in the attack on the Bataclan theatre, lived two years ago
Removed: A Seat car with suspected links to the Paris attacks has been found by police in Montreuil containing a cache of guns and ammunition
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Removed: A Seat car with suspected links to the Paris attacks has been found by police in Montreuil containing a cache of guns and ammunition
Suspect Volkswagen Polo being towed away from the Bataclan
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PASSPORT FOUND ON BOMBER'S BODY COULD BE AN ISIS FAKE
A terrorism expert said today that the passport found on the body of at least one suicide bomber could be fake.
ISIS may have asked the bombers to carry bogus or stolen documents belonging to migrants crossing into Europe from Syria.
Professor Greg Barton from Deakin University in Australia said: 'It raises questions about whether it is real.
'A suicide attacker will go through a ritual of bathing and praying beforehand.
'They would have known that the documents would not have been atomised by the blast. It could be a way for ISIS to fan the flames of hatred towards migrants.
'Their recruitment would be helped by this suspicion of migrants'.
Mostefai's father and 34-year-old brother were arrested on Saturday night, and their homes were searched.
'It's a crazy thing, it's madness,' his brother told French news agency AFP before he was taken into custody.'Yesterday I was in Paris and I saw how this shit went down.'
The brother, one of four boys in the family along with two sisters, turned himself in to police after learning Mostefai was involved in the attacks.
While he had cut ties with Mostefai several years ago, and knew he had been involved in petty crimes, his brother said he had never imagined his brother could be radicalised.
The last he knew, Mostefai had gone to Algeria with his family and his 'little girl', he said, adding: 'It's been a time since I have had any news.I called my mother, she didn't seem to know anything.'
A source close to the enquiry said Mostefai regularly attended the mosque in Luce, close to Chartres, to the southwest of Paris.
He is said to have been radicalised by a Belgian hate preacher of Moroccan descent said to have regularly preached at his mosque.
Among their victims was a 36-year-old British man, Nick Alexander, from Colchester in Essex, who was selling T-shirts at the Bataclan Theatre where 89 music fans were slaughtered.
With much of Europe on high alert yesterday, a Frenchman caused chaos at Gatwick Airport after producing what appeared to be a gun at an easyJet check-in desk. Hundreds of passengers were evacuated after the 41-year-old man fled and threw the 'firearm' into a rubbish bin at the North Terminal following a row with staff.
Jerome Chauris, from Vendome, has been charged with possession of an air rifle and a knife and is due to appear in court on Monday.
Armed police rushed to restrain the man and were said to have shouted 'get down, get down' to nearby travellers.
Aftermath of explosion and sirens heard at Stade de France
French fire officer helped an injured man away from the scene of the attack at the Bataclan concert in Paris on Friday night
Survivors began tending to those who had been injured during Friday's atrocity despite the fear of further terrorist attacks
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Survivors began tending to those who had been injured during Friday's atrocity despite the fear of further terrorist attacks
Authorities in Belgium have made several arrests in the Brussels area of Molenbeek in a series of raids
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Authorities in Belgium have made several arrests in the Brussels area of Molenbeek in a series of raids
Belgian police arrested three suspects as they tried to cross the border from France on Friday night
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Belgian police arrested three suspects as they tried to cross the border from France on Friday night

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The suspects' car, not pictured, was seen near one of the terror sites on Friday before returning to Belgium
Belgian police make several arrests linked to Paris attacks
The attack brought an immediate tightening of borders as Mr Hollande declared a state of emergency and announced renewed border checks. Germany also stepped up border checks.
Belgian authorities conducted raids in Brussels and arrested three people near the border with France after a car with Belgian numberplates was seen close to the Bataclan. Mr Molins said a French national was among the three arrested.
Last week a 51-year-old man arrested in Germany last week with weapons in his car might be linked to the Paris attacks.
A spokesman for Bavarian state police confirmed earlier that firearms, explosives and hand grenades were found when officers stopped a man near the Austrian border on November 5.
Ludwig Waldinger declined to confirm reports by public broadcaster Bayrischer Rundfunk that the man appeared to be en route to Paris when he was arrested.
Responding to questions about the Paris attacks, Bavarian governor Horst Seehofer said: 'In the course of spot checks we had an arrest where there are reasonable grounds to assume that there may be a link to the matter.'
Citing unidentified investigators, Bayrischer Rundfunk reported that documents found during the arrest indicated that the man was from Montenegro and was travelling to Paris. It also reported that the weapons, which it said included an automatic rifle and 1kg of TNT, were professionally hidden inside the body of the car, a VW Golf.
Rainer Wendt, chairman of the German Police Union, said security agencies appeared to have been tipped off that the man was planning to enter Germany.
'It seems it was found that he originally wanted to go to Paris, heavily armed with several different firearms and explosives,' Mr Wendt told German news station n-tv.
'That the French authorities were informed about this is totally clear,' he added. 'From what we know the man is in custody and isn't saying anything, so with that information alone the French authorities seem to have been unable to do much. At least the attack couldn't be prevented, despite all the efforts that were surely made.'
Local man describes the scene of one arrest in Belgium
Some people tried to escape from the carnage by clambering down the outside of the building
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missing launched a desperate search for loved ones feared killed. They shared pictures and information with the hashtag 'RechercheParis' – which means 'search Paris' – and it has now spawned its own Twitter accounts and Facebook page. Many of those missing were at the Bataclan concert.
British victim Mr Alexander was with his American friend Helen Wilson when gunman stormed the venue before blowing themselves up. She told how they were forced to lie on the ground – with those who moved, shot.
Mr Alexander was fatally wounded when they tried to make a break for freedom – but someone attracted a gunman's attention and both of them were shot. Helen was left desperately trying to resuscitate him while the terrorists lurked 'in the shadows'.
She said: 'Then he couldn't breathe any more and I held him in my arms and told him I loved him. He was the love of my life.'
As France declared a state of emergency and tightened its borders, it emerged that a catastrophe was averted at the Stade de France, where 80,000 watched a friendly football match between France and Germany.
A security guard frisked one of the attackers as he tried to enter the stadium with a ticket, only to find that he was wearing an explosives vest.
Victims of the gun attack outside La Belle Equipe restaurant on Friday night
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Victims of the gun attack outside La Belle Equipe restaurant on Friday night
A victim is wheeled out of the Bataclan concert hall where Islamic State gunmen mercilessly slaughtered up to 100 fans before blowing themselves up in a series of co-ordinated attacks across the French capital
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A victim is wheeled out of the Bataclan concert hall where Islamic State gunmen mercilessly slaughtered up to 100 fans before blowing themselves up in a series of co-ordinated attacks across the French capital
One of the concert-goers who was rescued from the Bataclan concert hall, where terrorists opened fire - killing innocent people
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One of the concert-goers who was rescued from the Bataclan concert hall, where terrorists opened fire - killing innocent people
His plan had been to detonate it on the terraces, triggering a stampede of fans – straight into the path of another bomber outside.
But after being discovered he ran and detonated the bomb outside, killing one other person, a 63-year-old Portuguese man.
At least one of the bombers is a Parisian. French prosecutor Francois Molins said that the attacker, who appears to be the ringleader is from the Courcouronnes suburb, the same district to the south of the capital that spawned the Charlie Hebdo killers
The man, known only as Mr Ismaël, was born November 22, 1985, and had a criminal record, but had never spent time in jail. He had been known to France's security services since 2010 and was on 'Fiche S', their watchlist of known extremists.
He was known as having been radicalised but had never been implicated in a counter-terrorism investigation. 'He was considered a radicalised person and had a security report,' Mr. Mollins said.
But he was not being monitored closely enough to stop him taking part in Friday's monstrous attacks, described by Islamic State, which claimed responsibility, as 'just the start of a storm'.
Professor Anthony Glees, terror expert at the University of Buckingham, said: 'I have no doubt whatsoever that some of the people in this plot will have been infiltrated into France in the guise of asylum-seekers. We worried about it, now we have it. I think this is of enormous significance.'
Other vital clues were also missed. More than a week ago, a heavily-armed suspect was stopped in Germany on his way to Paris. Hidden in his car, police found a terrifying arsenal, including seven Kalashnikov assault rifles and seven hand grenades. The destination programmed into his satnav system was Paris but officers failed to alert anti-terror police.
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A second attacker at the stadium is believed to have been as young as 15. Supporters of both France and Germany were held in the stadium until they could be safely evacuated
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A second attacker at the stadium is believed to have been as young as 15. Supporters of both France and Germany were held in the stadium until they could be safely evacuated
At least eight militants, all wearing suicide vests, brought unprecedented violence to the streets of the French capital in the bloodiest attack in Europe since the Madrid train bombings in 2004
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At least eight militants, all wearing suicide vests, brought unprecedented violence to the streets of the French capital in the bloodiest attack in Europe since the Madrid train bombings in 2004
An armed officer stands outside the theatre, which is just 200 metres from the Charlie Hebdo offices
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An armed officer stands outside the theatre, which is just 200 metres from the Charlie Hebdo offices
Paris prosecutor Francois Molins said of the eight attackers: 'We have to find out where they came from... and how they were financed.'
Mr Molins confirmed that three Frenchmen arrested in Belgium yesterday were linked to the attacks. Police are focusing their investigation on two vehicles. One was a black Seat used by gunmen at two of the attacks and has yet to be found.
The other is a black Volkswagen Polo with Belgian registration plates found at the Bataclan. This was rented to a Frenchman living in Belgium who was identified in a spot check by police on Friday morning as he drove across the Belgian border with two others.
Investigators believe these three may be another team of attackers who managed to flee the scene.
As details of the killers' identities began to emerge yesterday, Corinne Narassiguin, spokesman for France's ruling Socialist party, admitted: 'Obviously there was a failure of intelligence so we'll have to look into this.' She told the BBC that the French government had recently voted through new measures to improve surveillance of terror suspects, and 2,000 new posts are being created, but added: 'Unfortunately all these measures are not yet fully operational.
In May this year, The Mail on Sunday revealed the concerns of security analysts that Islamic State extremists were being smuggled into Europe among refugees crossing the Mediterranean. Yesterday's discovery appeared to confirm those worst fears.
Prosecutors also said the terrorists used an improved explosive known as TATP, or triacetone triperoxide, which also was used in the 2005 bombings in London.
Expressions of sympathy echoed around the world as France struggled to come to terms with the second major terror outrage on its soil in 12 months.
US President Barack Obama said today the terror attacks in Paris were an 'attack on the civilised world' and that 'the skies have been darkened' by the incidents.
Mr Obama is pledging US solidarity with France in the effort to hunt down the perpetrators and bring them to justice.
He made the comments in a meeting with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on the sidelines of the G20 economic summit featuring leading industrial and emerging-market nations.
Mr Erdogan says there will be a 'strong message' on fighting terrorism coming out of the summit.
Mr Obama also said the US stands with Turkey and Europe in the effort to reduce the flow of migrants. He says the US and Turkey will redouble efforts to resolve Syria's civil war.
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[King Niko]

I find it baffling how people are doing pray4paris,

but yet nobody seems to care about the bombings in Beirut...

It seems like we only focus on westerners, as if they can be the only victims..

[George S.]

If you watch the video youll see that America created isis and everyother terroristic organization.Very shocking America supplirf the terrorists with arms and they knew it.

[DraganOfStip]

http://www.thedailyvox.co.za/my-peoples-deaths-in-beirut-do-not-matter-as-much-as-my-other-peoples-deaths-in-paris/

[George S.]

Iraqi officials warned of ISIS attack before Paris massacre

New York Daily News



Jason Silverstein and Stephen Rex Brown


In his first television interview since being toppled as prime minister, Tony Abbott says ISIL won't go away until strong steps are taken to defeat it.

'ISIL won't go away by wishing'

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Relatives of Lebanese soldier Ali al-Sayyed, who was beheaded by Islamic State militants, mourn in the town of Fnideq, northern Lebanon, August 29, 2014. Islamic State militants beheaded the Lebanese soldier who was one of 19 captured by hardline Syrian Islamists when they seized a Lebanese border town for few days.

The growing worldwide threat of ISIS
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Kurds Launch Offensive to Retake ISIS-Held Iraqi Town 

Kurdish fighters launched an assault Thursday aiming to retake the ISIS-held strategic town of Sinjar. ISIS overran Sinjar last year in an onslaught that caused the flight of tens of thousands of residents and first prompted the U.S. to launch airstrikes against the militants. A statement from the Kurdish Regional Security Council said some 7,500 fighters were closing in on the mountain town from three fronts.

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Iraqi Government Warned France And US Of Imminent Attacks 


Iraqi Government Warned France And US Of Imminent Attacks

On Saturday, Iraqi Foreign Minister Ibrahim al-Jaafari has said his country's intelligence services shared information they had which indicated that France, the United States and Iran were among countries being targeted for attack. The comments come after 129 people were killed in Paris on Friday by gunmen and suicide bombers in attacks claimed by Islamic State. The foreign minister did not elaborate.

U.S. Resupplies Ammunition to Syrian Fighters Battling Islamic State 
The United States has carried out a fresh delivery of ammunition to fighters from the Syrian Arab Coalition battling Islamic State in northern Syria. Speaking on condition of anonymity, a U.S. official told Reuters on Sunday the American government is pushing ahead with a strategy that initially unnerved ally Turkey. In a shift in approach, the latest U.S. resupply operation was completed on Saturday by delivering the weaponry by land.

French Jets Strike New ISIS Targets In Raqqa, Syria


They were warned.

Iraqi intelligence officers warned France and other allies of an imminent assault by ISIS one day before the terrorist attacks in Paris that killed 132 people.

An Iraqi intel dispatch from coalition countries said the Islamic State’s leader, Abu Bakr Al Baghdadi had ordered an attack on countries fighting them in Syria and Iraq “through bombings or assassinations or hostage taking in the coming days."

Iran and Russia were also targets, according to the dispatch obtained by the Associated Press.


People are evacuated on rue Oberkampf near the Bataclan concert hall in central Paris.© AFP PHOTO/MIGUEL MEDINA People are evacuated on rue Oberkampf near the Bataclan concert hall in central Paris.
French authorities sought to downplay the signficance of the dispatch, saying it lacked specific details on when or where the attack would take place.

But six senior Iraqi officials said otherwise. Two of those officials said France had in fact been told of details regarding the attacks, which have not yet been made public.

Among them: that the Paris attacks appear to have been planned in Raqqa, Syria — the Islamic State's de-facto capital — where the attackers were trained specifically for this operation and with the intention of sending them to France.

The officials also said a sleeper cell in France met with the attackers after their training and helped them execute the plan.

There were 24 people involved in the operation, they said — 19 attackers and five others in charge of logistics and planning.

Iraq's Foreign Minister Ibrahim al-Jaafari, also told journalists in Vienna on Sunday that Iraqi intelligence agencies had obtained information that some countries would be targeted, including France, the United States and Iran, and had shared the intelligence with those countries.



Meanwhile the hunt was on for accomplices of the ISIS militants.

French police released the name of a German man suspected of renting the black Volkswagen Polo that dropped off attackers at the Bataclan theater, where at least 89 concert-goers were gunned down.

The alleged wheelman, Salah Abdeslam, of Brussels, is the brother of Ibrahim Abdeslam, who blew himself up during the attack, authorities said.

The fugitive is dangerous, police said, warning the public to “not intervene yourself” if he is spotted.

Authorities detained seven people in Belgium Sunday. Those detentions spurred a manhunt for a French suspect who is the brother of a man who died in the attacks and another man in custody.

Authorities also closed in on a car found in the Paris suburb Montreuil, which was believed to have carried a group of gunmen who struck Paris restaurants. Investigators found AK-47s in the abandoned black Seat Leon, about four miles from the eateries, French media reported.

As authorities continued their hunt President Obama and Russian President Vladimir Putin had a stern face-to-face on the sidelines of the G20 Summit in Turkey.

The people of Paris remained on-edge. Mourners panicked and fled a memorial for the 132 who died — according to the latest figures from CNN — after hearing fireworks, police said.

[George S.]

Passport trade raises doubts over Paris attackers' identities

The Guardian

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A woman dangles from the Bataclan window sill.

Paris attacks: 'Pregnant' woman dangles from window

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Man wrongly accused of being a Paris bomber

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A passport found near the body of the one of the Paris suicide bombers was used by a man who travelled into Europe on the refugee trail through Greece and Serbia, officials in those countries said.

The discovery raised as many questions as it answered, because it was unclear whether the passport was real or fake, and whether the bomber had used it to get to Paris himself or acquired it illegally from someone else.

On 3 October a man using the name Ahmed Almohamed arrived on the small Greek island of Leros and registered as a refugee with the Syrian passport.

The traveller apparently crossed to a neighbouring island and there boarded a ferry to Athens on 5 October, buying a ticket together with one other man, travel receipts published by the Greek newspaper Protothema show.

Within two days he had apparently passed through northern Greece to Macedonia, and reached the border crossing with Serbia.

“One of the suspected terrorists, A.A., who is of interest to the French security agencies, was registered on the Presevo border crossing on October 7 this year, where he formally sought asylum,” the Serbian interior ministry said in a statement.


A photo taken in Belgrade on November 15, 2015 shows the frontpage of Serbian magazine Blic, displaying a Syrian passport found by police at the scene of one of the Paris attacks.© AFP PHOTO/ANDREJ ISAKOVIC A photo taken in Belgrade on November 15, 2015 shows the frontpage of Serbian magazine Blic, displaying a Syrian passport found by police at the scene of one of the Paris attacks.
The Serbian newspaper Blic published a photo of the passport, with the details clearly visible. The details showed that the holder was a 25-year-old man from Idlib in northeast Syria, which fell to rebels in September.
Serbian media named one of the Paris terrorists as Syrian natiional Ahmed Almohamed, whose passport was found in Paris. Taken from Blic Photograph: Blic
The document’s discovery amid the bloodied aftermath of multiple bombings at a Paris stadium was seized on by opponents of Europe’s refugee resettlement scheme as an urgent argument in favour of tighter border controls.

French authorities have yet to say whether they have managed to match fingerprints to those registered along with the passport in Greece. Even if that link were eventually made, it would not confirm either the man’s identity or nationality, as there is a thriving trade in fake or altered Syrian passports.

Syrians have also reported losing their documents in muggings or scams during the arduous trek across Europe, so the passport could potentially have arrived in Greece with one man and in Paris with another.

Fingerprints stored in the registration network by European countries trying to monitor the flow of migrants and refugees may hold the clue to confirming who was travelling on the passport as it was brought westwards.

If it was still with the same person, he most likely travelled north and east from Serbia to Croatia – because Hungary had by then shut its border with Serbia – and then to Austria via Slovenia or a different Hungarian border.

Their passage would have been smoothed by the governments of several Balkan and south European countries, which had decided to help people pass through as swiftly as possible on their way to countries farther north and west.

Any trail of registration or fingerprints would probably end in Germany or Austria, where most refugees request to stay, or from where they try to slip away to other countries in which they have relatives or friends staying unofficially.

Even if the fingerprints do show that the man who landed on Leros was involved in the Paris attacks, “Ahmed Almohamed” might have purchased a new identity before setting off to Europe.

The passport appeared to be fake, a US intelligence analyst told CBS, because it had the wrong number of digits and a name that didn’t match the photo. If the passport does turn out to be fake, it will raise uncomfortable questions for Balkan countries that ushered its holder farther north into Europe


On Sunday the European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker on Sunday warned fellow Europeans not to abandon plans to resettle refugees across the continent, after calls by Poland to scrap the scheme in the wake of the Paris attacks.

The EU’s eastern-most members have been furious over the refugee resettlement plan agreed in October, calling instead for a stronger outer border to the European Union.

“I would like to invite those in Europe who are trying to change the migration agenda we have adopted... to be serious about this and not to give in to these basic reactions. I don’t like it,” Juncker told reporters as world leaders met at the G20 summit in Antalya, Turkey.

Germany’s defence minister also warned against conflating terrorism with the refugee crisis.

“Terrorism is so well organised that it does not need to take the difficult route taken by the refugees, who risk their lives by crossing the high seas,” Ursula von der Leyen told reporters.

“So I would advise that we be cautious about mixing the idea of terror with refugees,” she said.

Another passport found at one of the sites of the Paris attacks, and initially linked to the suicide squads, highlighted the dangers of leaping to conclusions in the race to identify the attackers.

Friends of Waleed Abdel Razzak spent much of Friday night and Saturday searching for the 27-year-old Egyptian, who went missing at the football game.

Their frantic efforts ended with both sadness and relief when someone found him alive but severely injured by a bomb in an intensive care unit in a nearby hospital.

But his passport had not made it into the ambulance with him and soon after it was discovered, the French newspaper Le Point claimed - in a report that since appears to have been taken down - that he was one of the attackers.

Egypt’s ambassador to France said Abdel-Razzaq had been incorrectly described as a suspect, when he was actually a victim of the attackers. He was in France to support his brother who was seeking treatment for cancer.

“No charges have been directed at Abdel-Razzak at all,” Badawi was quoted saying by the Egyptian newspaper Ahram Online.

[George S.]

Open Letter to ISIS From a Muslim Woman

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People at the memorial moments before they fled.

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French President Francois Hollande speaks during a joint gathering of both houses of French parliament.

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Raw: Eiffel Tower Shines Blue, White and Red 


Raw: Eiffel Tower Shines Blue, White and Red

The Eiffel Tower reopened to visitors after it was re-lit in blue, white and red following Friday's attacks in Paris. (Nov. 16)

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Notre Dame To Hold Special Service For Paris Victims 


Notre Dame To Hold Special Service For Paris Victims

On Sunday evening a special church service is to take place in the Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris to mourn the 129 people killed in Friday's attacks. At 6:15 p.m, the bells of the world-famous cathedral will toll to remember the victims. Mass will begin 15 minutes later. Notre Dame, like other major Paris sites like the Louvre and Eiffel Tower, has been closed since the attacks. It opened up for church-goers on Sunday.

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In an outpouring of solidarity, more emotional vigils were held across the globe over the weekend, and in many capitals, buildings and monuments were illuminated in the red, white and blue of the French tricolore. 


In an outpouring of solidarity, more emotional vigils were held across the globe over the weekend, and in many capitals, buildings and monuments were illuminated in the red, white and blue of the French tricolore.


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The Eiffel Tower Reopens and is Shining Bright Again


No, you don't scare me, because I love life, I love it too much for you to make me shudder in fear, I love it too much for you to intimidate me. I'm a woman, you know, I have that genital organ that according to your misogynous customs signifies weakness, and reduces me to an object, a nobody.

And I'm not afraid of you, I'm going to go on living, to travel by plane, to listen to music and sing aloud to it, to dance, to have drinks on the terrace with people I love, because, yes, I love. That feeling that's non-existent in your body - did the God who created you forget to provide you with it?

Is it the absence of love that allows you to carry military weapons and to kill innocent people on the streets? Or is it the absence of a brain that would give you perspective?

I'm going to keep laughing, yes, I love to laugh at everything and especially at caricatures, you know, the ones you came and paid us a visit about last January, because you lacked a sense of humour.

I like to dress as I please, to wear short, loose dresses in summer, to feel free. I like to get my hair done and to feel the wind run through it. Have you ever run your hands through a woman's hair?

I love my life - but you know who I owe it to? To my country, France, to my dear homeland that protects my freedoms and allows me to pursue my studies, allows me to love, to laugh, to cry, to rise up and be the woman that I am today.


PARIS ATTACKS FRANCE: "I'm a woman and I'm not afraid of you, I will never be afraid of you."© David Ramos via Getty Images "I'm a woman and I'm not afraid of you, I will never be afraid of you."
This joyful and happy France, this France that shines, this France that's so sweet and so lovely, this France that you're trying to poison with your venom, that you're trying to sully with blood that you're spilling. This France that you envy allows us to live, while you're walking dead, all alone after your acts of terrorism.

I'm a woman and I'm not afraid of you, I will never be afraid of you. My life goes on - yours ended long ago.

Freedom scares you, but you will never take mine away from me.

And by the way, read the Quran properly and stop associating yourself with my religion and my God. You have disgraced me.

I am May, a French-Tunisian Muslim.

[Gocka]

The West will never be able to truly defeat terrorism until it can honestly look at itself and admit its own role in the destabilization of the middle east, in its hand in the incubation stage of many of these terrorist groups, and frankly its perpetual playing with fire.

Simply beating our chests and making defiant speeches will never solve this perpetual state of chaos. Taking the same old stance of superiority will only exacerbate the problem. The west has never tried to take a humanistic approach to the middle east, all we have ever done is treat them like animals, and in turn all we do is breed more animals. For a second, put yourself in the shoes of some destitute, angry, and desperate middle easterner. Its easy to look and judge from our perches, but think for a second how many millions of people have died in Iraq alone in the last 15 years? There is probably not a single Iraqi who does not have a death in the family due to war. The wast brought that war, the west perpetuated that war, and now we are shocked that there is resentment? We are shocked that people who have nothing, and have seen nothing but death are insensitive to it? We have now, entire generations that will grow up and have grown up in war zones. None of this is important? None of this explains how we arrived at are current reality? The Islamic state is not a rag tag group of a handful of barbarians. It is a culmination, of all the death, anger, oppression that millions of middle easterner felt for 15 years, because of western intervention. Until we can admit that there are legitimate grievances there, then disparaged people will gravitate to ISIL. This new wave of islamophobia, and supremacist rhetoric is exactly why terrorists commit acts of terror in the first place, its a recruiting tool. As usual the West is falling right into the same old trap.