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UPDATE 1
Via Reuters:
France was rocked by multiple, near simultaneous attacks on entertainment sites around Paris on Friday evening and French media said at least 60 people were killed and hostages were being held in a concert hall in the capital.
UPDATE 2
Hollande to decree state of emergency, shut borders.
UPDATE 3
Via CNN
Hostages inside the Bataclan theater are telling news outlets that hostage takers are killing them one by one. They are asking for a police raid,
UPDATE 4
Via Reuters
Five explosions heard near Bataclan concert hall in Paris
UPDATE 5
Automatic gunfire heard outside the concert hall in Paris where hostages are being held
UPDATE 6
MAP Where the Paris Attacks Took Place
UPDATE 7
Via Agence France-Presse
Police storm Paris concert hall where hostages held
UPDATE 8
Via France 24
Attacks in at least 7 locations
UPDATE 9
Paris, for the first time since 1944, has instituted a curfew
UPDATE 10
Paris Police: Bataclan theater hostages have been freed, gunmen killed
UPDATE 11
Via Dow Jones
Several police officers injured in assault at Paris concert hall where hostages were held.
UPDATE 12
American Metal Band Was Scheduled to Play at Paris Venue Where Hostages Were Taken
UPDATE 13
HORRIFIC report via French 24:
Hundreds killed at Bataclan concert hall in Paris
UPDATE 14
Via RT
Appears military being deployed in Paris:
UPDATE 15
Attackers used hand grenades against police as they raided the Bataclan concert hall.
UPDATE 16
Via MTP Productions
Eagles of Death Metal band members are safe, according to drummer's mother.
UPDATE 17
Via CNN
French radio reporter Julien Pearce was inside the Bataclan theater when gunmen entered. Two men dressed in black started shooting what he described as AK-47s, and after wounded people fell to the floor, the two gunmen shot them again, execution-style, he said. The two men didn't wear masks and didn't say anything. The gunfire lasted 10 to 15 minutes, sending the crowd inside the small concert hall into a screaming panic, said Pearce, who escaped.
Bienvenue en France, young Arabic men!!!
ReplyDeleteWhat could POSSIBLY go wrong?!?!?!?
I'm not a fan of subsidized mass immigration, but just to clarify that it has been confirmed that several terrorists were not foreign nationals: one of the terrorists at the Bataclan was a Frenchman and the car they drove to the scene of the crime has plates from Belgium. One of the suicide bombers at the Stade de France was not a man, but a 15 year old boy.
DeleteThere are plenty of people of Arabic background already in France that hate the country, like the Kouachi brothers. How they got here goes back before you or me; long story short, hundreds of years of French colonialism and imperialism in West Africa and North Africa are in large part to blame for the influx of people of non-European heritage.
Sure, ok, but where did they get all those (illegal) weapons?
DeleteSo, I'll start a pool with ya, if ya want. Will there be any FURTHER incidents? Involving RECENT arrivals (< 1 Yr.)?
As for French guilt, Hell yeah, it's BLOWBACK, baby.
I find it odd France gets attacked so much...must be a good story as to why.
ReplyDeleteWell, France and the Middle East go WAAAAAYYY back.
DeleteTours and Poitiers comes to mind.
DeleteLet's see, extremely "progressive" nation that disarms its citizens. That might be one reason.
Deletehttp://www.businessinsider.com/frances-military-is-all-over-africa-2015-1
DeleteSame reason U.S. gets attacked. Intervention in foreign countries and killing of innocents. Has a funny way of generating enmity.
DeleteOr maybe because Hollande wants a trade agreement with Iran and the US state is pissed?
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