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Updated: Paris attacks: Assailant previously flagged by police for Islamic extremist links

CBC/AP

Nov 14, 2015

 

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One of the bombers in the wave of deadly Paris attacks that killed 127 people Friday night was a young Frenchman flagged for links with Islamic extremism, police said.

 

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On Saturday, the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria claimed responsibility for the attacks and said France would remain at the "top of the list" of its targets.

 

An online statement said eight militants armed with explosive belts and automatic weapons attacked carefully chosen targets in the "capital of adultery and vice," including the soccer stadium, where France was playing Germany, and the Bataclan concert hall, where an American rock band was playing and "hundreds of apostates were attending an adulterous party."

 

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The perpetrators remained a mystery: most of their nationalities, their motives, even their exact number. Authorities said eight died, seven of them in suicide bombings, a new terror tactic in France. Police shot and killed the other assailant. Prosecutor's office spokeswoman Agnes Thibault-Lecuivre said authorities couldn't rule out the possibility that other militants involved in the attack remained at large. Early in the year, Islamic extremists attacked the Paris office of satirical newspaper Charlie Hebdo and Jewish and other sites in France.

 

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The Guardian

10:44

Senior figures in both Hamas and Islamic Jihad in the Palestinian territories have condemned the attacks in Paris.

 

Dr Bassem Naim, head of the Council of International Relations for Hamas, told AFP the group condemned “the acts of aggression and barbarity”, while Islamic Jihad condemned “a crime against innocents”.

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A Syrian who apparently passed through Greece as a refugee last month, a known French extremist and an Egyptian were said to be among a cell of eight Islamist gunmen who killed nearly 130 people in a bloody wave of suicide bombings and shootings that left France reeling.

Islamic State on Saturday claimed responsibility for the atrocities, which the French president, François Hollande, denounced as an “act of war” that must be countered “mercilessly”.

 

 

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/nov/14/syrian-greece-refugee-paris-attacks-killers

 

Evidently our first batch of Syrian refugees just arrived this week...

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11/24/2015

President Obama Opens Up A Serious Can Of Whoop Ass On ISIS!
Filed under: General — Dana @ 3:28 pm

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For the first time since the Paris massacre that left 130 dead and hundreds more wounded, and for which ISIS claimed responsibility, President Obama met with France’s President Hollande today at the White House. Showing that steel spine of resolve and the slickstrategery we’ve come to expect from President Obama as he steadfastly works to contain, degrade and destroy ISIS, he threw down the gauntlet and reminded ISIS just who it is they are messing with:

 

Next week, I will be joining President Hollande and world leaders in Paris for the global climate conference. What a powerful rebuke to the terrorists it will be when the world stands as one and shows that we will not be deterred from building a better future for our children.

 

This is the same world leader who believes there is no challenge that poses a greater threat to future generations than climate change. Scissors-32x32.pnghttp://patterico.com/2015/11/24/president-obama-opens-up-a-serious-can-of-whoop-ass-on-isis/

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