Gunmen have attacked the Paris office of French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo, killing 11 people and injuring 10, French officials say. Witnesses spoke of sustained gunfire at the office as the attackers opened fire with assault rifles before escaping. Police have launched a major operation in the Paris area in their hunt for the attackers. Charlie's latest tweet was a cartoon of the Islamic State militant group leader, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi. The satirical weekly has courted controversy in the past with its irreverent take on news and current affairs. The magazine was fire-bombed in November 2011 a day after it carried a caricature of the Prophet Muhammad. President Francois Hollande is at the scene and is planning to hold an emergency cabinet meeting. 'Black-hooded men' Two of those killed are police officers, France's AFP news agency reports, and five of those wounded are critically injured. An eyewitness, Benoit Bringer, told French TV channel Itele: "Two black-hooded men entered the building with Kalashnikovs. "A few minutes later we heard lots of shots." The men were then seen fleeing the building. "It's carnage," French police official Luc Poignant told another French channel, BFMTV. Police have warned French media to be on alert and pay attention to security following the attack. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-30710883
Haha Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi Circled in red in Syria in 2011, US diplomats have been working with these nutbags since before 2011 when the Syrian war kicked off, ISIS? Baaa, ISIL! , the same group funded armed and trained by Jordan Turkey the US UK and Saudis and other Gulf States, guess who that is standing in front of him next to Syrian Wolverine. The US and it's Gulf State cohort are still arming training and funding them, but they call them "moderates", there is no such thing in Syria on the rebel side. They are all religious extremist. please log in to view this image please log in to view this image Ukraine was the exact same thing, McCain and the same people from the US meeting with the Ukrainians before, as with Syria, Snipers started killing police and protestors alike, it's a ****ing formula that they have used for decades. Ottowa and attacks like this are for no one elses benefit other than Joe public, so that when your rights get even more eroded you'll all cheer on your loss of rights, all part of marketing a war. in which as usual, the US are killing 8 to 10 civilians for every "militant" they kill. Some comedy ISIL attacking Assad ISIL Attacking Kurds ISIL attacking Iraq ISIL attacking Lebanon US Attacking Lebanon US attacking Assad US doing nothing for the Kurds US doing little to nothing for Iraq US attacking ISIS? Right ok.. Turkey attacking Assad and the Kurds Israel Attacking Lebanon Israel attacking Assad All while the UN peacekeepers sit on the syria Israel and Lebanon Israel borders scratching their bollocks
I would say that having guns might have helped, but if people saw them go in with Kalshnikovs, you would assume that someone had called the police. And if it took several minutes for shots to be heard, then either they managed to slip the police, or the police can't have been too quick in getting there. It's a tragedy, whatever.
This is how things end up when **** politicians criticise cartoons in a Danish newspaper in 2005 instead of taking the stand there and then to say **** you terrorism
Looking at the picture on Luv's BBC link, they were right in front of the police in a single lane street and the car facing the wrong way. How on earth could the police then lose them? They must have them tracked at least.
Not at all Donga, the outrage is directed at the wrong people is all I am saying, you probably know I am "outraged". I think a better word is depessingly dismayed, mostly at the willful ignorance that is allowing this to happen. ISIL were a pissy group of small groups in Syria pre NATO involvement. They had no money no weapons and no power. This is the role of the NGOs, to find a festering cancer in a country of interest, pump money and resources into it and grow it, if that is not enough to "democratically" change things, then the military op goes ahead.
That excuses their actions. Bell ends like these Islamic ****wits were stalking Salman Rushdie with their fatwas since the late 80's.
Y'all reckon this is just places like Iran, pfft, the US National Endowment for democracy, a supposed NGO, who gets 99% of it's funding from the US fed gov, along with a CIA offshoot, worked hard and invested much into getting Harper elected in Canada. That's called a soft coup, now notice Canada, who was a nothing in terms of this global war on terror, is now experiencing terrorism, Australia, ditto. The 5 eyes nations populations are losing rights at an alarming rate. in the UK, a teenager tweets about two chicks in a cat fight on Twitter, "oi lads I smell a war". Because he was a certain ethnicity, police showed up tased and arrested him, all without chage. This is the reality. in future what happens something you thought was OK to say, like "cameron is a dick" will be extremism, but by then it will be too late. That's the road we're on. The same ****ing road the German population traveled from the 1930s to their destruction in the 1940s.
That's a false arguemnt in the context of this discussion. There are extremist jews extremist Christians and even Extremist Buddhists and Islamics. All have carried out massacres, even in modern times. Remember when ISIL were cutting out hearts and eating them in 2012 and massacring Christian villages in SYria and having children behead captured enemy, the media didn't report it much. I doubt George Galloway could go to many certain places and be safe from Zionist jews Try talk about gay people to fundamental christians in the US, see what happens religion is like that, utterly intolerant. But lets not confuse using ignorance to get people worked up, whether it is religion(a fiction) or ISIS terrorism(a fiction) the results are the same Religion is what you bring to it, your disposition and beliefs mould your interpretation. If you are a violent sort your religion will be violent If you are racist, so will your religion be if you are hompphobic so will your religion be. Ect ect There are 1.7 billion Muslims, if they were all extremist they'd already have won by now don't you think
But then if traffic is that bad, how did they escape in a car? And there are a couple of police cars in the picture.
