Terrorist attack in Paris, France

[Commander Wallace]

France once again is having to deal with a cowardly attack on it's citizens. At least 100 people were killed in a Paris concert hall. In addition, there were attacks at a restaurant, soccer stadium and a shopping mall. A state of emergency has been declared. The attacks were coordinated as they happened within minutes of each other.

French president Francois Hollande was in attendance at the Soccer match between France and Germany but was thankfully unharmed

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world...82f_story.html


In August of this year, an attack on a train was thwarted by 2 American service men, a Briton and another individual.


There was another attack at publishing house and magazine,Charlie Hebdo Jan 7, 2015 in which 12 were killed


http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-30710883




Thoughts and prayers go out to France and it's citizens .

OK, I gotta vent a little....
I tried to follow the attacks / ongoing event as it happened via ARD/ZDF/N24 live streams, those are 3 TV channels here in Germania.

On all of them, all the time... THEY TALKED ABOUT THE FFFF FOOTBALL TEAM BEING IN THE STADIUMS CATACOMBS!

WTF!???

I don't give a RATS BEHIND about some over-payed athletes while over a hundred people die OUTSIDE the stadium, where things are actually happening!

PRIORITIES I guess...

[nikimcbee]

Originally Posted by Nippelspanner

OK, I gotta vent a little....
I tried to follow the attacks / ongoing event as it happened via ARD/ZDF/N24 live streams, those are 3 TV channels here in Germania.

On all of them, all the time... THEY TALKED ABOUT THE FFFF FOOTBALL TEAM BEING IN THE STADIUMS CATACOMBS!

WTF!???

I don't give a RATS BEHIND about some over-payed athletes while over a hundred people die OUTSIDE the stadium, where things are actually happening!

PRIORITIES I guess...

I feel your pain. I was surfing through the local channels and one was showing social media memes. I hate social media when it comes to this stuff. It's not news.

[Torplexed]

Just awful. Amazing how much mayhem a few fanatics can cause.

Friday the 13th, a date which has been traded up from superstition to infamy.

[eddie]

Such a tragic event. I hope the nightmare for them is over.

But, Friday the 13th hasn't been a good day for Daesh either, Kurdish forces, backed by US airstrikes, have retaken Sinjar! And I guarantee we killed more then 150 pieces of Daesh crap in that deal!

[Stealhead]

Jihad Johnny was also killed today by a hellfire launched by a drone. Or should be said that the DOD feels that it is very likely that JJ is dead.

[HW3]

ISIS is claiming responsibility and saying the next targets are Rome, London, and Washington DC. Authorities caught one of the attackers who said he was ISIS I read.
If this doesn't wake up the world governments to what they are inviting into their countries, United States included, nothing will.

[Tchocky]

Eddie - most of the nationalities represented here on GT have deeper ties to France than Russia or Lebanon.

We react stronger when it's our close friends. I mean just read the thread. That's not right or wrong, it's human.

As for Beirut, it's heartbreaking but not as brutally novel and shocking. I don't think I need to explain why.

Again, not right or wrong - human.

Skybird - No. You can't really have WW3 going on in the single most peaceful period in centuries. It's almost impossible by definition.

[eddie]

I understand in a way Tchocky, I guess I am tired of reading and hearing of so many innocent lives being lost around the world. This is a picture of the little girl killed in Afghanistan, her name was Shurkira. She was just a little older then my Granddaughter. She and her family lost their lives because their ethnic and religious backgrounds were different then what the animals who killed them would allow in their part of the world. I can't fathom how anyone could take her life.

[Oberon]

Good point eddie, and well made, but unfortunately that is human nature. If one was to compare the daily deaths in the Middle East to our days of relative peace periodically shattered by a brutal massacre, well...there's a reason that so many people have left Syria...

[Bubblehead1980]

This is sad, just incredibly sad.Makes me sad, yet angry as this did not have to happen.For the world, was 9/11 not enough? Was the London bombings not enough? Was Charlie Hebdo not enough? When will the civilized world understand it is our tolerance as a society and "political correctness" killing us and will be our downfall if we do not combat these savages and their midevil ideology.

Sad truth is France is paying the price for years and years of tolerating these barbarians and their mindset.Now they are a large part of the population(7.5 %) and while not every muslim is a savage, a terrorist etc many who do carry out the violence, many support them in spirit.Some are good people just trying to live yet they do nothing to combat radicalism, to encourage a reformation in Islam to help defeat the savages among them.

Turns out, one of the attackers held a refugee passport which is not shocking! People who voiced concerns over there were as usual called names like xenophobe, racists, heartless etc then not years later, just few months after the invasion began, this happens.Sadly, this will probably happen again and will probably come to the US since our Dear Leader just allowed 10,000 to come here and just a day before the Paris attacks called ISIS "contained" lol Irrational tolerance by society, political correctness, and inept, naive leaders are a deadly combination.

Prayers, condolences etc will not save France or the civilized world, it's to time to get harsh, the defeat the cancer of Islam once and for all.This can be done, just takes the will.

[Oberon]

Originally Posted by Bubblehead1980

Prayers, condolences etc will not save France or the civilized world, it's to time to get harsh, the defeat the cancer of Islam once and for all.This can be done, just takes the will.

And this, ladies and gentlemen, is a perfect example of what the people who blew up and shot up Paris want people to think and say.

Bravo Bubbles for providing a perfect demonstration.

[CaptainRamius]

Originally Posted by Commander Wallace

France once again is having to deal with a cowardly attack on it's citizens. At least 100 people were killed in a Paris concert hall. In addition, there were attacks at a restaurant, soccer stadium and a shopping mall. A state of emergency has been declared. The attacks were coordinated as they happened within minutes of each other.

French president Francois Hollande was in attendance at the Soccer match between France and Germany but was thankfully unharmed

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world...82f_story.html


In August of this year, an attack on a train was thwarted by 2 American service men, a Briton and another individual.


There was another attack at publishing house and magazine,Charlie Hebdo Jan 7, 2015 in which 12 were killed


http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-30710883




Thoughts and prayers go out to France and it's citizens .

Oh, and I love that first line. Describes it perfectly.

[Commander Wallace]

Originally Posted by CaptainRamius

Oh, and I love that first line. Describes it perfectly.

I think that's pretty much how everyone feels about it except the terrorists themselves.

Good, insightful and knowledgeable posts by everyone .


In further developments.

" quote " on Monday a French official named Abdelhamid Abaaoud, a Belgian man, as one of the masterminds behind Friday’s massacre, who was also implicated in the foiled attack on the high-speed Thalys train between Brussels and Paris in August, which was stopped when three American passengers wrestled the gunman to the ground. He is believed to be in Syria.

http://time.com/4114167/paris-attacks-suspects/

[CaptainRamius]

Originally Posted by Commander Wallace

I think that's pretty much how everyone feels about it except the terrorists themselves.

Good, insightful and knowledgeable posts by everyone .


In further developments.

" quote " on Monday a French official named Abdelhamid Abaaoud, a Belgian man, as one of the masterminds behind Friday’s massacre, who was also implicated in the foiled attack on the high-speed Thalys train between Brussels and Paris in August, which was stopped when three American passengers wrestled the gunman to the ground. He is believed to be in Syria.

http://time.com/4114167/paris-attacks-suspects/

That guy! He escaped? I had no idea, I thought the authorities took care of him!