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Paris newspaper attack underscores terrorist shift to "soft targets"
The Washington Times ^ | January 9, 2015 | Guy Taylor

Posted on 01/09/2015 5:46:32 AM PST by Biggirl

Where the al Qaeda of Osama bin Laden’s leadership flew an airplane into the Pentagon in a meticulously prepared operation, the tip of today’s global jihadi spear is increasingly pointed at exploiting such “soft targets” as shopping malls, sporting events, tourist attractions and, in the case of this week’s horror in Paris, the office of a satirical news magazine.

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TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: europe; jihad; terrorism
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1 posted on 01/09/2015 5:46:32 AM PST by Biggirl
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To: Biggirl
If you have time to take a video, you have time to take an aimed shot.


2 posted on 01/09/2015 5:48:26 AM PST by Travis McGee (www.EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com)
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To: Travis McGee

Agreed. Fight them. Fight. Don’t sit around and act like wusses.


3 posted on 01/09/2015 5:49:59 AM PST by yldstrk
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To: Travis McGee

If you have time to take a video, you have time to take an aimed shot.


In the US, yes. We have a gun behind every blade of grass.

The “soft target” is Europe.


4 posted on 01/09/2015 5:50:19 AM PST by cuban leaf (The US will not survive the obama presidency. The world may not either.)
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To: Travis McGee
If you have time to take a video, you have time to take an aimed shot.

Unless you're a New Socialist Man, and guns are ikky...

5 posted on 01/09/2015 5:50:23 AM PST by Old Sarge (Its the Sixties all over again, but with crappy music...)
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To: Biggirl

They are cowards, but there is a lot to be concerned about. The subhuman reptile brain savages have attacked schools and malls. There is no reason to think they won’t try it in France and the USA.

The thing to do is expel them all for belonging to an organization that actively works for the downfall of the US government.


6 posted on 01/09/2015 5:52:35 AM PST by I want the USA back (Media: completely irresponsible. Complicit in the destruction of this country.)
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To: Biggirl

Soft targets ..... schools. The Leftists in this country have STILL not learned that lesson.


7 posted on 01/09/2015 5:56:30 AM PST by Qiviut ( One of the most delightful things about a garden is the anticipation it provides. ~W.E. Johns)
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To: Travis McGee

Reminds me, time for a periodic cleaning of my weapons. Need to check the zero on the optics of my AR. Maybe put a few rounds of 9mm down range...


8 posted on 01/09/2015 5:56:44 AM PST by ThunderSleeps (Stop obarma now! Stop the hussein - insane agenda!)
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To: Biggirl; Travis McGee; yldstrk; TADSLOS; cripplecreek
I was 13 years old when 9/11 happened.

And I knew then, if I was a Terrorist, I would attack everyday places, Crowded McDonald's, The Mall on Saturday, Middle Schools

Which Ones? I don't know, any of them, In Kansas City, Lexington Kentucky, Jacksonville Florida.

Target the Everyday People, disrupt their Daily Lives, then you will see how stands up and sits down.

9 posted on 01/09/2015 5:57:52 AM PST by KC_Lion (Build the America you want to live in at your address, and keep looking up.- Sarah Palin)
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To: Travis McGee

Funny, I had this same thought yesterday watching this on FNC.


10 posted on 01/09/2015 5:58:19 AM PST by TADSLOS (The Event Horizon has come and gone. Buckle up and hang on.)
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To: Biggirl

It’s a good thing they are stupid.

Because if they had half a brain they would have been sending teams to the US and Europe for the past decade and just attacking random places like they did the cartoon office. Only takes a few guns and a couple of nuts who’ve spent an hour learning to shoot.


11 posted on 01/09/2015 5:58:48 AM PST by TexasFreeper2009 (Obama lied .. the economy died.)
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To: Biggirl
Paris newspaper attack underscores MOSLEMS' shift to "soft targets"
12 posted on 01/09/2015 6:00:46 AM PST by arthurus
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To: I want the USA back

Expel all of them, including converts and indigenous.


13 posted on 01/09/2015 6:02:36 AM PST by arthurus
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To: I want the USA back

Big difference, Americans are ARMED to the teeth, thanks to Amendment #2.


14 posted on 01/09/2015 6:03:51 AM PST by Biggirl (2014 MIdterms Were BOTH A Giant Wave And Restraining Order)
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To: KC_Lion

People worry about muslims in Detroit but that’s one of the least likely place something like this would happen. That is one heavily armed city.


15 posted on 01/09/2015 6:04:34 AM PST by cripplecreek (You can't half ass conservatism.)
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To: cuban leaf

>> The “soft target” is Europe.

Yep. In the US, “soft targets” can work both ways, and their “asymmetrical warfare” need not be asymmetrical.


16 posted on 01/09/2015 6:11:30 AM PST by Nervous Tick (There is no "allah" but satan, and mohammed was his demon-possessed tool.)
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To: cuban leaf
The “soft target” is Europe.

The target is every civilized country - Europe, North America, Australia - because we have everything that these cowards are afraid of - personal freedom, freedom of speech, freedom of dress, freedom to drink, etc.

These totalitarian a-holes are determined to remove these threats to their rule at any cost.

And sadly, in every one of our countries, there's a disturbing number of people who DON'T want to fight back, who refuse to even acknowledge there's a war going on. So the problem grows.


17 posted on 01/09/2015 6:13:17 AM PST by canuck_conservative
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The target is every civilized country
I agree, but the “soft target” is Europe. They would inflict some damage here, but eventually, if the police didn’t take care of it, the people would.

And in states like mine, Kentucky, they would be fools to try anything. It’s one reason I left Seattle to live on property I bought two weeks before the 2008 election. I’ve been seeing this coming for quite a while.


18 posted on 01/09/2015 6:27:39 AM PST by cuban leaf (The US will not survive the obama presidency. The world may not either.)
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To: TexasFreeper2009

The shooting is less important than careful planning. I think thats the point of the article. Atleast thats how I was reading it. A well thought out/rehearsed plan keeps the surprises to a manageable level (hopefully). It also helps on the back end of the ‘operation’. The only reason the police are so successful is the bad guys are so stupid. A smart motivated small team can be very very successful/effective.


19 posted on 01/09/2015 6:34:48 AM PST by 556x45
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To: Biggirl

What Europe needs right now is for someone to launch a gun liberty advocacy campaign. If nothing else, they could have some fun with it. I personally would like it to be blatantly fear mongering. For example:

Show a crying young woman with a bullet wound in the arm, clutching her two small children while cringing in the corner of a darkened closet. A menacing shadow is illuminated after opening the door. The caption:

“She cannot protect herself and her children, because she is not allowed to own a gun. You cannot protect your family because you are not allowed to own a gun. You are at the mercy of evil, because you are not allowed to own a gun.”


20 posted on 01/09/2015 6:41:02 AM PST by yefragetuwrabrumuy ("Don't compare me to the almighty, compare me to the alternative." -Obama, 09-24-11)
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