Terrorist attack in Paris on French magazine

[Tchocky]

Originally Posted by Betonov

Given the level of paranoia in the air, one could make millions with such an app.

Blech. Don't even start I'd forgotten how fast the fascists come out of the woodwork.


Seems like the supermarket hostage taker is also dead. Seeing as he was threatening to kill unless the two brothers were released, the necessity for simultaneous operations must have been high.

Well done to the French security guys.

[Skybird]

All bad guys dead, nobody escaped, hostages alive. Under the messy circumstances existing at the end: best possible outcome. Congrats to French police.

[Betonov]

Originally Posted by Tchocky

...the necessity for simultaneous operations must have been high.

Well done to the French security guys.

The French were always good at that. Remember Austerlitz. He had 4 armies in support to be force marched if needed, the Austrians and Russians couldn't even get the same date together

[Skybird]

http://www.corriere.it/esteri/15_gen...cea2bbd2.shtml

[Tchocky]

Reports of four hostages dead at the supermarket. Very sad.

[Dowly]

Sad indeed.

[Skybird]

Police says four hostages were killed prior to the start of police action.

In Malik’s analysis of Quranic strategy, the human soul — and not any physical battlefield — is the center of conflict. The key to victory, taught by Allah through the military campaigns of the Prophet Muhammad, is to strike at the soul of your enemy. And the best way to strike at your enemy’s soul is through terror. Terror, Malik writes, is “the point where the means and the end meet.” Terror, he adds, “is not a means of imposing decision upon the enemy; it is the decision we wish to impose.”
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How we respond to this attack is of great consequence. If we take the position that we are dealing with a handful of murderous thugs with no connection to what they so vocally claim, then we are not answering them. We have to acknowledge that today’s Islamists are driven by a political ideology, an ideology embedded in the foundational texts of Islam. We can no longer pretend that it is possible to divorce actions from the ideals that inspire them.

http://www.corriere.it/esteri/15_gen...cea2bbd2.shtml

[Tchocky]

There's an echo in here.

Originally Posted by Skybird

http://www.corriere.it/esteri/15_gen...cea2bbd2.shtml

What do we get in return? Kalashnikovs in the heart of Paris. The more we oblige, the more we self-censor, the more we appease, the bolder the enemy gets.

[Dowly]

Originally Posted by Betonov

The French were always good at that. Remember Austerlitz. He had 4 armies in support to be force marched if needed, the Austrians and Russians couldn't even get the same date together

When thinking about French operations, especially hostage crisis, I always think of the Air France 8969 operation.

[Betonov]

Originally Posted by Dowly

When thinking about French operations, especially hostage crisis, I always think of the Air France 8969 operation.

The Airbus A300B2-1C, tail number F-GBEC, had first flown on 28 February 1980.

That airplane has the same birthday as me, only 6 years older.

Sorry, couldn't help noticing