Posted on 01/30/2016 8:10:46 AM PST by rktman
A 28-year-old man who was arrested carrying two guns at a hotel in Disneyland Paris on Thursday has no known links to terrorism but was still being detained by the police, the French authorities said on Friday.
Officials at the prosecutor’s office in Meaux said in a statement that the investigation, including analysis of the man’s telephone records, had not established "any link with a terrorist act."
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He had a quran and was a convert? There’s your link right there, dopes.
Sacre bleu! We missed it by a mile.
Even if there were a link.. It wasn’t going to be noticed..
Much easier to bleat about taking guns from law-abiding citizens..
You know what? That is France’s problem. If they want to have their head in the sand that is on them. I am sick of worrying about other countries. I laugh at what is happening in Germany......really stupid country obviously. What I care about is what is happening here.
The guns were less worrying than the fact that he was also carrying a Koran.
He may not have any “official” links to “official” terrorism, but he clearly intended to carry out a little jihadi stunt.
The reason you should care is that the terrorists gain knowledge and experience from executing these strikes in Europe that is applicable to planned attacks in the United States.
Of late, there have been a number of attacks targeting hotels, schools, dormitories and other group residences. In my opinion, this is because these locations have a limited number of entrances, the security staff is likely to be few and relatively lightly armed (easily overwhelmed), and, depending on the time of day, there are likely to be a large number of potential victims inside them.
The couple involved in this incident may have been a support team that was prepositioning the weapons and other materials the mission team would need to marry up with once on site. OR they may have been a purposely “clean” (of terrorism ties) in order to test hotel security to see what could or could not be smuggled though the checkpoint. OR they may have been intending an “under the radar” lone wolf attack like the couple in San Bernardino. OR...they may be completely free of any terrorism ties and just thought it was a good idea to take two handguns and a French language edition of the Quran with them on their visit to Disney World Europe. Of the four “ORs,” the last one sounds the most unbelievable.
ISIS and Al Qaeda are “learning organizations” and, while the mission team is obviously expendable, the support teams are developing important logistics and intelligence information and experience will be used to make future operations more effective. There is enough similarity between Europe and the United States that this information will be useful in the training of operatives coming to the United States.
He probably just forgot he was carrying a gun, what, with all the legal carry in France. Then, he forgot he was carrying the second gun.
Have they got Merkel in hajib yet? Maybe a blue burka—remember that song? I hope those girls got out of there.
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