Ramadan In Paris – The Season of Terror

[longknife]

The usual rants will come about the source of this but here's a picture that says it all:

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[Phoenall]

The usual rants will come about the source of this but here's a picture that says it all:

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Notice that they are wearing the uniform or the Palestinian terrorists.................

 

[waltky]

Granny says, "Dat's right - we need to get down to bidness an' quit molly-coddlin' ISIS...

Attacks in Paris Add Urgency to Talks on Ending Syria War
NOV. 14, 2015 — The top diplomats from more than a dozen countries met here on Saturday for talks on ending the crisis in Syria, vowing to redouble their efforts to confront terrorism after the deadly attacks in Paris.

The carnage in France provided a grim backdrop and somber urgency for the negotiations, aimed at reaching a cease-fire in Syria and paving the way for a political transition there that could end four years of civil war. “It is more necessary than ever in the current circumstance to coordinate the international fight against terrorism,” Laurent Fabius, the French foreign minister, said as the meetings began.

Secretary of State John Kerry said the attacks in Paris and recently in Iraq and Beirut , Lebanon, were “the most vile, horrendous, outrageous, unacceptable acts on the planet.” He added that they were born of “a kind of medieval and modern fascism at the same time, which has no regard for life, which seeks to destroy and create chaos and disorder and fear.” “The one thing we could say to those people is that what they do in this is stiffen our resolve, all of us, to fight back, to hold people accountable and to stand up for rule of law, which is exactly what we are here to do,” Mr. Kerry said after meeting with Foreign Minister Sergey V. Lavrov of Russia and before sitting down with the rest of the ministers assembled for the talks. “And if they’ve done anything, they’ve encouraged us today to do even harder work to make progress and to help resolve the crises that we face.”

Still, the challenges in Syria are steep, and Mr. Kerry has conceded in recent days that they will not be quickly resolved. The negotiations involve a diverse set of players with conflicting agendas — including the United States, Russia, Iran and Saudi Arabia — and there is no clear consensus on the most pressing issues. Syrians were absent from the meetings in Vienna discussing their fate, with no representatives for either President Bashar al-Assad or the constellation of opposition groups vying to oust him. Mohammad Javad Zarif, the Iranian foreign minister, who had planned to skip the meeting, canceled a scheduled trip in light of the Paris attacks and traveled to Vienna to huddle with his counterparts on Syria.

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Paris Terror Attacks Pressure U.S. ‘Patience’ Strategy for Islamic State
14 Nov.`15 - A tougher American approach to ISIS could result

Ever since the U.S. military campaign against ISIS began in 2014, Pentagon officials have said the U.S. has time on its side. Rather than an invasion, officials have opted for methodical and incremental moves against the threat. “We must maintain strategic patience going forward,” Army General Lloyd Austin, overseeing the anti-ISIS campaign as the chief of U.S. Central Command, said last fall. “The campaign to destroy [ISIS] will take time.” But the recent spate of suspected terrorist attacks, including a coordinated assault on Paris Friday and the destruction of a Russian airliner over Egypt, now threaten to fray that strategy, as western nations realize that the distant war can cause significant damage at home. Future attacks—especially if they happen on U.S. soil—may find that the U.S. public has run out of patience, strategic or otherwise.

The Paris attacks represent “an assault on our common human dignity,” Defense Secretary Ashton Carter said late Friday. “As NATO allies, as leaders of the counter-[ISIS] coalition, as nations working shoulder to shoulder from West Africa to the Indian Ocean, the United States and France will only strengthen our resolve.” But mere resolve, in the face of domestic slaughter, is untenable. The key for leaders U.S., France, Russia and other states targeted by the Islamic State of Iraq and Greater Syria, isn’t to be stampeded into action, but to assess accurately the threat it poses and then develop a strategy to deal with it. Then they must convince their populations to support the plan. After 3,000 died on September 11, 2001, an uneasy lull began. Terrorist attacks from Sunni radicals still occurred, but on a smaller scale and usually overseas, far from major Western targets. That tense hiatus now seems to be ending, following the destruction of Russian airliner over Egypt two weeks ago that killed 224, and Friday night’s slaughter in Paris that killed more than 125.

No one should under-estimate the difficulty in curbing attacks by so-called “lone wolves.” But the attacks on the airliner over the Sinai and in Paris were conducted by packs, not lone wolves. And they are succored by a fledgling self-declared caliphate that inspires them. A report from Paris Saturday morning that one of the dead assailants had a Syrian passport only makes it more clear that such rampages are unlikely to end any time soon. French President Francois Holande declared Saturday that the Islamic State was responsible. “It is an act of war that was prepared, organized and planned from abroad, with complicity from the inside, which the investigation will help establish,” he said.

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Syrian who apparently passed through Greece as refugee was 'one of Paris killers'...

Three French citizens arrested over Paris attacks
Saturday 14 November 2015 - Public prosecutor says men were held at Belgian border following Friday’s attacks that killed at least 129 people

Three French nationals have been arrested in Belgium in connection with a bloody wave of suicide bombings and shootings in Paris that left nearly 130 people dead, the Paris public prosecutor said. Francois Molins said one of the three, all of whom were living in Belgium, had rented a Seat Leon car used by some of the seven jihadists as they opened fire on fans at a city centre concert hall and customers in a string of cafes and bars on Friday evening. 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”.

Molins told a press conference that at least 129 people were killed and 352 more injured – including 99 critically – in the six attacks, France’s deadliest since the second world war and the worst witnessed in Europe since the 2004 Madrid railway bombings. As police worked to identify the eight militants, all of whom died in the attacks, it emerged that at least one of the fighters, identified by his fingerprints, was a French national with known links to Islamist networks from the southern Paris suburb of Courcoronnes.

Investigators also told French media a Syrian passport, belonging to a man born in 1970, and an Egyptian passport had been found lying close by the bodies of two other jihadis, both of whom blew themselves up in the course of their attacks. Greece’s citizen protection minister, Nikos Toskas, said separately that the owner of the Syrian passport had entered the European Union through the Greek island of Leros on 3 October, adding: “We do not know if the passport was checked by other countries through which the holder likely passed.”

As Europe struggles to contain an influx of hundreds of thousands of migrants, the revelation that one of the Paris killers may have travelled the refugee route, been registered in Greece in accordance with EU rules, and managed to make his way northwards to join what unconfirmed reports suggested was effectively an independent jihadi cell could prove deeply damaging. There were unconfirmed suggestions the men may have made up an independent cell of jihadis, several of whom may have fought in Syria.

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Police raid Brussels neighbourhood in link with Paris attacks: Belgian TV
14 Nov.`15 - Several arrests in Brussels linked to Paris attacks: minister

Several people were arrested in Brussels on Saturday during police raids connected to the attacks in Paris, Belgian Justice Minister Koen Geens said. Geens said on RTBF television that these arrests in the capital's Molenbeek neighbourhood "can be seen in connection with a grey Polo car rented in Belgium" found near the concert hall in the French capital where scores of people were killed.

Belgian police blocking a street during a police raid possibly in connection with the attacks in Paris, in Brussels' Molenbeek district​

Parking tickets from Molenbeek were found inside the car with Belgian license plates, Belgian media said. The media reported that at least five people were arrested during the raids, but the number was not confirmed officially. RTBF earlier reported up to three raids as its website ran a photograph of a man with what looked like a black blindfold as the police put his hands behind his back and handcuffed him.

The French-language tabloid newspaper La Derniere Heure added that the raids were carried out to find evidence in homes of three young people who it claimed took part in the attacks. In Paris, several witness reported that some of the attackers arrived in a vehicle with Belgian license plates.

Police raid Brussels neighbourhood in link with Paris attacks: Belgian TV