POLICE RAIDS END TWO TERROR-RELATED STANDOFFS …
|| By FITSNEWS || The manhunt is over … French police claim to have killed the two alleged perpetrators of this week’s Paris terror attack in a daring raid northeast of the French capital. A hostage taken by the suspects was also rescued during the operation.
Meanwhile another raid at a kosher supermarket in Paris has resulted in one dead gunman and three dead hostages.
Brothers Cherif Kouachi and Said Kouachi – whose bloody attack on the satirical publication Charlie Hebdo killed twelve people this week – were both killed during a gun battle with police outside a warehouse where they had been hiding.
Nearly 90,000 french law enforcement personnel participated in a two-day manhunt for the brothers – which ended when police surrounded a printing plant in Dammartin-en-Goele (a commune located 20 miles north of Paris) and launched a raid at around 5:00 p.m. local time.
The brothers were reportedly traced to the facility after a carjacking victim contacted police with information about their whereabouts …
Two days ago, the Kouachis allegedly stormed into the offices of Charlie Hebdo wearing masks and brandishing AK-47s. Shouting “Allahu Akbar” (“God is Great”) and “we have avenged the prophet Muhammed,” they proceeded to execute the paper’s editor – 47-year-old Stephane Charbonnier -and several of its cartoonists.
Speaking in fluent French, the brothers – French nationals of Algerian descent – allegedly called their victims out by name before shooting them in the head, execution-style.
What motivated the murderous rampage? Cartoon drawings of the prophet Muhammad … but the roots of the radicalization of at least one of the Kouachi brothers was the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq (and the subsequent torture of prisoners by American soliders at Abu Ghraib prison in Baghdad).
In the other raid, police stormed a supermarket in Porte de Vincennes – killing suspect Amedy Coulabaly. Three of Coulabaly’s hostages were found dead in the aftermath of the attack, although it was not immediately clear when they died.
French president Francoise Holland referred to Coulabay’s rampage at the Hypercacher supermarket as a “terrifying anti-semitic attack.”
Coulabay – who was reportedly working in concert with the Kouachi brothers – is also the prime suspect in the slaying of French police officer Clarissa Jean-Philippe. The 27-year-old officer had been on the job for just two weeks when Coulabay allegedly shot her in the head as she responded to reports of an accident.
Coulabay’s 26-year-old girlfriend – Hayat Boumeddiene – has also been named by police as a person of interest in their investigation. Boumeddiene has yet to be apprehended.
Again … like all lovers of life and liberty we condemn these attacks.
“Beyond the taking of lives, the attack on Charlie Hebdo is also an attack on free expression – a deliberate effort to suppress the free flow of the marketplace of ideas,” we wrote in the immediate aftermath of the massacre.
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Who cares. Everyone in SC knows France is our enemy. Remember Liberty Fries?
“Who cares.”…Obviously you don’t.
Actually I do. French background, Just a parody of what “conservatives” have said in the past. Remember the Liberty Fries.
I remember the future tea party members pouring french wine into the gutter.
Well that alone was proof of their IQ. Think I have the wife hooked on Cote de Rhone
“…but the roots of the radicalization of at least one of the
Kouachi brothers was the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq (and the subsequent
torture of prisoners by American soliders at Abu Ghraib prison in
Baghdad)…
Isn’t it ironic that France has been attacked and they weren’t even there?
Yeah, we do a lot for them.
Yeah, it’s all our fault isn’t it and let’s not forget 9-11, that was our fault too because we are an evil nation. They were dancing in the streets after that one.
Yep, 9-11 happened because they hate us for our freedumbs, including those people dancing.
Have you eaten any liberty cabbage lately?
“Have you eaten any liberty cabbage lately?”
Have you read an entire book lately?
I sure have but I’ll bet they’re not the same ones you would read.
“I sure have but I’ll bet they’re not the same ones you would read”
Oh – I’m 100% percent certain of that.
How many autographed copies of Bill O’Reilly’s books do you have?
Why, are you looking to smell my farts?
Not at all, some of the comments on this site are rank enough.
I never said that. I think these nuts would have attacked innocent people no matter what. Maybe they’d have done it the name of Hot Goth Chick had they not been from Arabic background. As for 9/11 – that was pure evil – too bad the National Security Advisor didn’t follow up on the memo.
Sorry I misunderstood.
Maybe if we had reacted to the USS Cole things would have been different but I doubt it.
I remember them calling it Freedom Fries.
Let’s not forget World War I, when sauerkraut was called “liberty cabbage”.
Thank you for reminding me that Islamic terrorism didn’t begin until Abu Ghraib.
“…but the roots of the radicalization of at least one of the Kouachi brothers was the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq (and the subsequent torture of prisoners by American soliders at Abu Ghraib prison in Baghdad)…
Beat that fallacious dead horse! In “Clash of Civilizations, Huntington quotes a Islamic lawyer this way, “…“I don’t think there is a conflict between religions. There is a conflict between civilizations…” This conflict predates Abu Garib, the Israeli War for Independence, the Crusades and goes all the way back to the revelation of the “Holy Quran”. In Sura 2 AL-BAQARA (The Cow) 2:191 “And kill them wherever you find them, and turn them out from where they have turned you out. And Al-Fitnah [disbelief] is worse than killing…”
We didn’t start it.
Been going on for awhile, again who was Rodrigo Díaz?
Doesn’t he own the Taco Truck over in West Columbia?
That’s probably what most would think.
Oh you’re talking about the guy the Citadel is named for – El Cid!
There is a conflict between civilizations…”
Yeah, we have one and theirs, such as it is, is still firmly rooted in the 8th century
Good stuff. I was on one of my work-related extended stays in the Muslim world a few years back, and my boss actually caught some heat for his screensaver. He had the old Windows scrolling text screensaver set to roll “Pakistan…marching to the beat of a 12th Century drum!” across his blacked out screen in a nice Muslim green. Rec’d an actual written order to “remove it forthwith.” Truth hurts sometimes…
“Yeah, we have one and theirs, such as it is, is still firmly rooted in the 8th century”
Now, now. I know the Republicans are a bunch of decrepit, old, Viagra-infused white men but saying they are still firmly rooted in the 8th century is pushing it a bit.
He has to stick the Iraq thing in there to keep his Uncle RP happy, although at least this time it *was* snuggled up to an admission that it really was just the silly cartoons. That’s progress…
“Beat that fallacious dead horse Will!”
It’s not a dead horse. It’s a direct quote from the terrorists. You selectively pick your own truth and ignore the words of the perpetrators of the heinous act.
I’ll bet you ignored OBL’s direct quotes on why he did 9/11 too.
The commandments in the Quran to kill those those that don’t believe are ignored by well over 99% of the Muslim population.
But no one ever asks why it is ignored by most, but then seized upon by the radicals.
It’s not a “direct quote from the terrorist”, it was a defense strategy his lawyer used when the POS got caught recruiting for AQAP six years ago.
Wrong!
“At his apartment, Benyettou took them on the internet, and showed them images from Bush’s invasion and occupation of Iraq. Sharif said, “It was everything I saw on the television, the torture at Abu Ghraib prison, all that, which motivated me.”
That’s direct testimony.
and you conveniently left OBL out of your response:
“In Bin Laden’s November 2002 “Letter to America”,[3][4] he explicitly stated that al-Qaeda’s motives for their attacks include: Western support for attacking Muslims in Somalia, supporting Russian atrocities against Muslims in Chechnya, supporting the Indian oppression against Muslims in Kashmir, the Jewish aggression against Muslims in Lebanon, the presence of US troops in Saudi Arabia,[4][5][6] US support of Israel,[7][8] and sanctions against Iraq.”-Wiki
You sir, are full of shit.
From the Slate”
“…At trial in 2008, Kouachi said that he had been motivated to join a jihadist cause by seeing pictures of American soldiers abusing prisoners at Abu Ghraib. He was tried with six other men, including Benyettou, and lawyers argued that Kouachi and his co-defendants were not terrorists but rather “freedom fighters” motivated to join a foreign war effort by empathy for the suffering of Iraqis. (The attorneys also noted that the French government itself had condemned the American invasion.) The men were nonetheless convicted of “association with wrongdoers with the intention of committing a terrorist act…”
He probably uttered words to that effect but it was his attorney whom dreamed up that defense.
From the same article “…Kouachi was arrested in January 2005, accused of planning to join jihadists in Iraq. He was said to have fallen under the sway of Farid Benyettou, … but had not actually yet traveled to Iraq or committed any acts of terror. Lawyers at the time said he had not received weapons training and “had begun having second thoughts,” going so far as to express “relief” that he’d been apprehended….”
The POS was doing what he was told by someone he viewed as an authority figure. AQAP has taken credit for the attacks.
Tell me – is shooting a bunch of smart ass Frenchman who happen to make fun of (all) religions justified by any of the actions of the United States? (Hell, France even condemned what we did!)
I didn’t think so. What does Osama Bin Lay’ed in (the deep blue sea) have to do with any of this?
“He probably uttered words to that effect”
Yes, he did, that was part of his buddies testimony.
“I didn’t think so. What does Osama Bin Lay’ed in (the deep blue sea) have to do with any of this?”
Because it speaks to what is the root cause of the problems there. It’s not religion that stoking the flames as much and the occupation, war, torture, etc.
It’s the cause de celebre for crazies to seize upon, reinforcing their slaughter with the Prophet. They wouldn’t “hate us for our freedumbs” if were weren’t drone striking wedding parties, applying sanctions killing their kids, & making general life miserable via war over there.
Where the hell is Tango and Flip? Ah, training at the fry station…
For Sale:
French military rifle. Never fired and only dropped once.
Sgt. Pierre LaFrog (ret) $200 OBO
That was then, this is now: French military has announced they are joining the fight against terrorists in Yemen, including air force bombing of terrorist training camps, targeting terrorist leaders on the ground with Commando raids.
I would not sell them short in this endeavor.
I’ve decided to copy FITS’s “blame it on the U.S.” mentality. Whenever something bad happens in SC, I’ll start saying “you know there is no direct evidence of this, but if you want to connect dots that aren’t there, it’s really FITSNews’ fault.”
Three Million plus rally in Paris against terrorists … US administration officials there for conference, in secret, in hiding. Egypt, Jordan, Israel, more rulers in attendance and making public appearances … O’Bummer? … Not!