France - Explosions and shooting in Paris, 13 November 2015 #3

[Momoffourboys]

Apparent red flags before Paris attacks piling up

http://www.cbsnews.com/news/apparent-red-flags-terrorists-before-paris-attacks-piling-up/

 

[Momoffourboys]

Paris on alert for chemical attack on city's water supply after hazardous materials suits stolen from children's hospital

http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/world-news/paris-alert-chemical-attack-citys-6877745

 

[Momoffourboys]

Iran says it arrests ISIS-linked cell near Iraq border

https://english.alarabiya.net/en/Ne...rests-ISIS-linked-cell-near-Iraq-border-.html

 

[cottonweaver]

Apparent red flags before Paris attacks piling up

http://www.cbsnews.com/news/apparent-red-flags-terrorists-before-paris-attacks-piling-up/

It's a joke isn't it Mom.... but the problem is the joke is on us, the citizens.

The "mastermind" had been laughing in ISIS magazines about how easy it is to come and go. And even after the massacre he was purported , by witnesses in StDenis to be having a beer and a smoke outside the siege apartment.

Same as here in the UK, the authorities are under-resourced, overstretched and the politicians complacent, like our Home Secretary just spin us a line about "Everything is being done."
At least we are not in Schengen, that's the only saving grace,and that "our" refugee quota is smaller and vetted over a longer period.

I read tonight that even Malta, a small island has suspended Schengen for the time being and their risk is much smaller of course.

 

[Momoffourboys]

Russia says kills 11 militants who had sworn allegiance to Islamic State

It said the militants were holed up in a fortified base in a wooded, mountainous area of the Kabardino-Balkaria republic in southern Russia, near the city of Nalchik.

"The armed group organized channels for residents of the republic to be sent to the territory of the Syrian Arabic Republic so that they could take part in activities by terrorist groups," the anti-terrorism committee said in a statement.


http://www.reuters.com/article/2015...nts-idUSKCN0TB09120151122#DaCQ0yjzp1bBow4L.97

 

[Momoffourboys]

Obama: Russia needs a "strategic adjustment" on ISIS

http://www.cbsnews.com/news/obama-calls-for-strategic-adjustment-from-putin-on-isis/

 

[Momoffourboys]

Russia Says U.S. Policies Helped Islamic State, Interfax Reports

U.S. actions in the Middle East helped Islamic State to gain influence, Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev said, according to Interfax.

The strengthening of Islamic State “became possible partly due to irresponsible U.S. politics” that focused on fighting Syrian President Bashar al-Assad instead of joining efforts to root out terrorism, Medvedev was cited as saying in Kuala Lumpur on Sunday. President Barack Obama earlier on Sunday said that Russia is facing a strategic choice as Assad can’t stay. The Obama administration declined to comment Sunday on Medvedev’s statement.

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/artic...un-brokered-moves-in-fighting-terror-ifx-says

 

[Trident]

http://www.cbc.ca/passionateeye/episodes/warriors-from-the-north
"Warriors from the North
Watch on CBC News Network
Sunday, November 22, 2015 at 10 PM ET/PT"

"Warriors from the North is about young Somali-European men, who leave their everyday lives to become fighters, and perhaps even suicide bombers, in Somalia − one of the most dangerous and impoverished places in the world. These young men, most of them born and raised in Scandinavia, are recruited in their home towns and subsequently leave for Somalia, where they are trained by Al-Shabaab, an Islamic terrorist organization whose aim is to obtain Islamic rule in Somalia.

Warriors from the North focus on the story of a young man known only as “The Shadow” who describes how he fell victim to recruiters from al-Shabab. He outlines the conditions that make boys like him susceptible to the lure of the "holy war," explaining that, "Nothing in my life made any sense." A number of other young fighters, their identities concealed, explain why they left hearth and home and are prepared to die."

Nothing in any of our lives makes sense any more. I could lay this at the feet of governments out to change world demographics, or I could blame Madelaine Murray O'Hare. Ah, what fine end came to her. Or, I could blame climate change or a possible polar shift. I vote for the latter.

If one does not want to become a jihadist, or a hater/racism/Islamophobe, or even worse, pray long and hard. No one here gets out alive anyway, what can it hurt?

:cow:

 

[cottonweaver]

EU HQ in Brussels - cancels only non-essential meetings, other business continues there - well they do have a lot to figure out at the moment!

EU HQ warning rating for their venue - up one , from yellow to orange ( not on Red Alert)

http://www.consilium.europa.eu/en/p...rangements+at+the+Council+on+23+November+2015

On a political level - as per the views of European citizens - it probably is RED alert.

 

[ZaZara]

https://www.rt.com/news/323049-third-bomber-paris-stadium/

The third suicide bomber who blew himself up outside of Paris’ Stade de France stadium last week has been identified by BBC as a man who arrived at the Greek island of Leros together with another attacker called Ahmad al Mohammad.

BBM

 

[cottonweaver]

Another crisis, another place

Greek concerns mount over refugees as Balkan countries restrict entry

Estimated 3,600 Europe-bound migrants stranded on Greek border, and debt-stricken Athens is ill-placed to deal with additional burden
Concerns are mounting in Greece that the country could have to deal with thousands of trapped migrants and refugees, after border crossings to Balkan countries to the north were abruptly closed.

Macedonia’s decision to prohibit entry to anyone not perceived to be from wartorn countries such as Syria, Afghanistan and Iraq has fuelled fears that the EU’s weakest member may be left picking up the pieces.

“The nightmare scenario has started to develop where Greece is turned from a transit country to a holding country due to the domino effect of European nations closing their borders,”
“More and more are arriving all the time,” said Luca Guanziroli, field officer with the United Nations refugee agency in the border village of Idomeni. “There is a lot of anxiety, a lot of tension.”

Labouring under its worst crisis in modern times, debt-stricken Athens is ill-placed to deal with any emergency that might put more burden on a fragile state apparatus.

As spontaneous protests erupted at the weekend, the government dispatched its junior interior minister for migration, Yiannis Mouzalas, to Idomeni to hold talks with local officials. One said: “We are very worried. We can hardly cope, and that’s just waving them [refugees] through.”

http://www.theguardian.com/world/20...ount-refugees-balkan-countries-restrict-entry

Federal states of Europe...........like a massive oil tanker, unresponsive , bureaucratic...

 

[ZaZara]

BREAKING:

Belgian Police request that everybody stops tweeting about ongoing actions in Brussels


#BrusselsLockdown

 

[cottonweaver]

Channel 4's Chief Correspondent's blog from Brussels, staying at the Radisson Blu hotel, his twitter feed has some humour too.

http://blogs.channel4.com/alex-thomsons-view/security-clampdown-brussels-extended/10114

 

[Trident]

I'm wondering if Belgium is actually going to clean it's house. For as long as I can remember, and I've lived a long time, it had rather a shady reputation. In my opinion of course.

 

[ZaZara]

I managed to speak with my aunt in Brussels at last.

She is OK. Since she lives on the outskirts, what happens in central Brussels does not affect her much. Or so she says. "And I never take the metro, and as for shopping, it is easier for me to go to Leuven..."(Leuven is a city near Brussels.)
Yet the atmosphere is depressing and one wonders how long this will go on.
"I do hope they catch them and I pray that there wil not be another attack."
Her biggest worry is with the refugees who IHO are getting the blame for what is now happening.

We both agreed that these are not nice times to live in.

 

[cottonweaver]

The Paris ringleader /"mastermind - more new information tonight , Dipesh Gadher of the Sunday Times reported.

Mastermind of Paris terror attacks was linked to at least six UK hate preachers including 'Tottenham Ayatollah' Omar Bakri Muhammad
I posted about Bakri a couple of pages back.

Abdelhamid Abaaoud, the ringleader of the Paris massacres, was said to have ties to banned Islamist group Sharia4Belgium which recruited young men from the deprived Molenbeek neighbourhood where he grew up.Fouad Belkacem, the radical preacher who founded Sharia4Belgium, recruited several UK based fanatics to help him promote sharia law on the streets of Belgium and help sneak members into Syria, it has been claimed.
Belkacem and 45 Sharia4Belgium members were convicted terrorism offences in February.
One of the men Belkacem approached was London based preacher Omar Bakri Muhammad, who was banned from the UK in 2005 and later jailed for terror related offences in Lebanon,
Footage is said to show three other UK based terrorists travelling to Belgium to meet up with Sharia4Belgium members.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...-Tottenham-Ayatollah-Omar-Bakri-Muhammad.html


Now you know why they used to call London, Londinistan!

 

[FindHG]

'Operations under way' in Belgium linked to 'terrorist threat': police
AFP
32 minutes ago

a police spokesman told AFP, requesting that

"the media do not comment directly on the actions under way, mentioning the places for example". The public prosecutor will hold a news conference "when it is all over", he added.

 

[cottonweaver]

Meanwhile back over at the EU.....

Critics of Europe's open borders are 'exploiting the suffering of Paris', says Juncker in vow to save Schengen Zone
European Commission president against putting back up walls of Europe.But in an extraordinary intervention, the European Commission president said he would fight to stop countries putting back up the walls of Europe.

The travel zone, where 26 European countries have removed all checkpoints between each other, has been blamed for exacerbating the migrant crisis
‘I will fight for this. I could not bear that my generation be the one to put up walls again in Europe – we have only just taken them down,’ he wrote in an article for the Malta Independent.
At an emergency Brussels summit of European interior ministers on Friday a major security clampdown at the borders was agreed in a last ditch bid to stop the collapse of Schengen.
All passengers will be vetted against terror watch lists for the first time, and migrants arriving in areas such as Greece and Italy will be subject to more stringent checks

Juncker - so out of touch , he claims Schengen as "the greatest achievement of the EU"

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...ker-vow-save-Schengen-Zone.html#ixzz3sG8EdxsA

 

[Sonya610]

and proved unable to breach the security at Stade de France.

http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/terror-a-means-to-an-end-for-islamic-state-a-1063454.html

bbm I wonder when was it known that hollande would be at the event on that day? And with that I wonder if he had NOT been there would security have been as tight as it was that day.

I don't think they ever intended to do much at the stadium, much less kill Hollande. Any threat to the president and that massive crowd would have required a tremendous amount of time and resources.

From what I have read it appears the stadium threat was more of a "false flag" to tie up resources while they planned the massacre at the night club.

 

[ZaZara]

Belgian journalists are now tweeting pictures of cats.



https://twitter.com/hashtag/brusselslockdown?f=images&vertical=default&src=hash