French President said all of the terrorists who were holed up in the concert hall are dead.
4 gunmen have been killed, 1 arrested.
1,500 soldiers in French streets, patrolling.
Online chatter on ISIS websites are saying Rome, London and DC are next.
French President Hollande said at the Bataclan tonight: “We are going to lead a war, it will be pitiless” against the terrorists.
Via Guardian:
UPDATE: 5 terrorists are dead, according to Fox News.
UPDATE: Nasdaq futs -0.9%
UPDATE: French President’s full speech, transcribed.
“My dear compatriots,
As I speak, terrorist attacks of unprecedented proportions are underway in the Paris area. There are dozens killed, there are many injured. It is a horror.
We have, on my decision, mobilized all forces possible to neutralize the terrorists and make all concerned areas safe. I have also asked for military reinforcements.
They are currently in the Paris area, to ensure that no new attack can take place. I have also called a cabinet meeting that will be held in a few minutes.
Two decisions will be taken: A state of emergency will be declared, which means that some places will be closed, traffic may be banned, and there will also be searches which may be decided throughout Ile de France (greater Paris). The state of emergency will be proclaimed throughout the territory (of France).
The second decision I have made is to close the borders. We must ensure that no one enters to commit any crimes and that those who have committed the crimes that we have unfortunately seen can also be arrested if they should leave the territory.
This is a terrible ordeal which once again assails us. We know where it comes from, who these criminals are, who these terrorists are.
In these difficult moments, we must — and I’m thinking of the many victims, their families and the injured — show compassion and solidarity. But we must also show unity and calm.
Faced with terror, France must be strong, it must be great and the state authorities must be firm. We will be.
We must also call on everyone to be responsible.
What the terrorists want is to scare us and fill us with dread. There is indeed reason to be afraid. There is dread, but in the face of this dread, there is a nation that knows how to defend itself, that knows how to mobilise its forces and, once again, will defeat the terrorists.
French citizens, we have not completed the operations. There are still some that are extremely difficult. It’s at this moment that the security forces are staging an assault, especially in a place in Paris.
I ask you to keep all your trust in what we can do with the security forces to protect our nation from terrorist acts.
Long live the Republic and long live France.”
UPDATE: 8 attackers dead, including 7 suicide vests.
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ISLAM SUCKS
It’s not the religion but the oppressive system of constant tribal warfare in the Middle East that is the problem. The place is full of warring tribes who attack each other and who also attack people in other countries through terrorism.
People are executed in some countries in the Middle East for not being Muslim. If the historical religion there were Christianity, people would get executed for not being Christian instead & it would otherwise be the same. Religion is just one more area where tribal leaders are forcing and oppressing their people & each other– one more excuse to do violence that they would be doing anyway, even if they were all atheists.
Using religion to justify violence is not a tactic that is used only by people of the Muslim religion.
See Religious views of Adolf Hitler in wikipedia:
” In Mein Kampf, Hitler makes a number of religious allusions, claiming to be “acting in accordance with the will of the Almighty Creator” and to have been chosen by providence.”
It’s not the religion that’s the problem but the violent and oppressive behaviors.
If all Muslims were violent, the whole world would constantly be on fire. More than 20% of the world’s population is Muslim– more than 1 out of every five people in the world.
No way pal.
Your thinking is a trap the enemy wants us to take.
Animals.
Last I heard, there were 100 people murdered at the theater venue. 3 or 4 terrorists killed. Le Figaro reported the President Hollander had to be evacuated from the soccer game.
All this is incredibly sad. Prayers for the families of the victims, the victims and all the French citizens.
Don’t let it get you down.
Fight back with the French, we are not cowards.
You don’t make Americans scared, you only make them mad.
I wouldn’t be surprised if there was looking the other way by someone in this planning
6 separate attacks 159 dead.
An open border and disarmed citizenry is a recipe for disaster.
Good lord this is terrible.
Europe is run by some weak ass politicians. They just invited these terrorists into their countries. Disgusting.
Trump 2016! We need somebody that is willing to protect us and not care to be labeled racist or stupid or whatever the geniuses of the world think of him. We have our families and communities to think of here.
Here’s that Open Gates vid, in case anyone hasn’t viewed it yet:
http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=cb0_1447249820
I feel bad for the other Muslims in France after this. I’m not religious, but they’ll be treated as scapegoats. The broad majority of Muslims are just trying to live their lives. IS should be fucking exterminated.
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I want to commend you.
Brave men and women believe and invest in the future.
The enemy wants you to hide under a blanket with your money under the mattress.
I will join you in buying the selloff.
Buy what you want, But is there a general climax/peaking settling in?, Commodity/trade Rates Syria/russia Europe/migrants, Or might there be further escalation/chaos before a calm ask yourself
Another great post. Perspective and context are important: Let’s not forget that Al Shabab took out a similar number of innocents in Kenya a few months ago.
There was no network news there, so no round the clock coverage as in Paris… On the other hand, I was in a high end mall when it was first reported- I definitely kept my eye on two young Arabic speaking dudes in track suits. Pretty sure that’s more prudent than paranoid – Amirite? Or maybe they were just there to support more Tesla sales.
It’s the failure of the secular west and its religion of hyper tolerance. We’ve lost our faith, our communities, and thrown our families away. It’s creative destruction on a cultural scale. The pressure from the islamic barbarians and the other 3rd world hordes will either reinvigorate us or end us. Personally, I hope to God it reinvigorates us.
The investment impact: Euro down, dollar up. Longer term, this escalates the threat to the Euro. Bigger threat than Greece or the PIGS long term. This gives a big boost to France’s Front National party which is anti-EU and anti-immigrant. If the Euro falls apart it won’t at the edges of Europe, it wall fall apart in Europe’s core.
If Granny needed another excuse to keep ZIRP? And what the hell go NIRP. She just got it. Possibly.
There was a time in the past – in early 2014 – when it was still possible to send out a kind of special forces unit into the areas, where Baghdadi, the head of IS, and his ringleaders and followers were located, in order to take them out by arresting them or by killing them if there weren’t any other possibility. In that way the IS could have been defeated from its inside, in a logical form, by using the lowest possible use of Gewalt/violent brute force. But this is no longer possible. The only realistic way that still exists to overcome the IS, is to use brute Gewalt (brute force), but still in a reasonable and logical form. This means that only a kind of a huge multinational army could help now, which should be a compound of all armies from each country of the entire world, or at least an alliance of all countries around Iraq and Syria completed with strong armies of countries such as the USA, England, France, Russia and China, etc.
The amount of soldiers of this multinational army should outnumber by at least triple the number of the soldiers of the IS army (which already has around 100 000 soldiers – men and women). And the soldiers should be armed with the best and newest weaponry and supported with all kinds of military equipment such as tanks, fighters and tactical missiles, etc. Only with this huge and powerful army, could the IS be defeated as quickly as possible and therefore with the least possible amount of war dead (men and women) as well. Because of being radicalised and fanaticised, the IS soldiers should be arrested, be given a life sentence and banished to islands or regions far away from civilization and without having any possibility to communicate with the outside world.
Unfortunately, if the USA, under the command of George W. Bush, never had conquered Iraq and tracked down Saddam Hussein and killed him, Saddam Hussein would have had the ability – along with armed Kurdish fighters, called Peshmerga (who ironically helped the USA in its mission to capture Saddam) – to control Baghdadi and the IS. Hence the United States of America has to take the main responsibility for this evil outcome. Right now, with Russia’s Putin taking the lead in Syria, the USA has the opportunity to act and react in a wise manner and to join forces with the Russians, which would also bring China on board and then the entirety of all the European nations as well as many other countries, to join in a kind of multinational peace army in order to protect peace, our freedom and all good and true human rights from the evil IS and therefore from the peril of falling back into dark ages.
Kudos to juice regarding Iraq and Hussein.How about Assad and Mubarek.Will we not ever learn that regime change is a policy of idealistic idiots and we need to remove ourselves from it.This all started with Western imperialist countries mainly Britain and France carving up the mideast for oil after WW1 and will end when we get out and let these countries sort out their own politics.ISIS recruiters are having a field with this.
It is indeed a sordid history/histoire. Not to mention the failed overthrow of Castro, otherwise known as the Bay of Pigs, where the CIA combined forces with none other than organized crime/the mob/the mafia, whereby they trained so-called anti-Castro rebels to overthrow Castro who booted out the mobs casinos and nationalized US-based multinational corporations. JFK did not provide them the proper air cover and they were slaughtered like pigs upon which none of the above forgave JFK and conspired to send him to his grave.
So now we still play the same games with the same disastrous results with our successful overthrow of Saddam & subsequent occupation by ISIS, and the CIA training anti-Assad rebels to overthrow that psychopath, not to mention our involvement in Libya, the Ukraine, etc.
I wonder if there are no bigger terrorists than the US government itself. Look at what we have wrought. We even kill our own and our own Presidents.
Interesting article about the attacks and the use of Twitter http://america.aljazeera.com/articles/2015/11/14/A-hashtag-in-Paris.html