Posted on 11/15/2015 8:48:43 AM PST by Theoria
The investigation into the Paris terrorist attacks unfurled across Europe on Sunday, as the authorities sought a suspected eighth assailant who might have fled after taking part in the three-hour massacre, which killed at least 129 people.
A French official who was briefed on the investigation but was not authorized to speak publicly said the authorities were looking for a man from the Paris region. Officials had initially described eight attackers, but on Saturday night said that only seven attackers had died — six by blowing themselves up and one in a shootout with police.
The carefully coordinated attacks on Friday night, which President François Hollande says are the work of the Islamic State, increasingly appear to have involved extensive planning, sophisticated weapons and people from several nations.
Critical, if sparse, details about four of the attackers came into view on Sunday.
One attacker — nationality not yet known — evidently posed as a Syrian migrant. The Serbian newspaper Blic published a photograph of a passport page, which identified its holder as Ahmad al-Mohammad, 25, a native of Idlib, Syria. He passed through the Greek island of Leros on Oct. 3 and the Serbian border town of Presevo on Oct. 7, officials in those countries said. It was not clear whether the passport was authentic; the civil war that has sent millions of Syrians fleeing and fueled the rise of the Islamic State has also created a large black market for forged Syrian passports.
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Link has nice map of attacks around the world and events.
The left is in denial. They are blaming guns. Blaming intolerance. Blaming racism.
Blaming everything but Islam and Muslim immigrants.
These are Obama's allies.
Watch this chilling message from ISIS to us.
Obama's handiwork. Merkel & Hollande's folly.
They will not let a good atrocity go to waste in an effort to further their left wing agenda.
The MSM can’t wait to tell us the attackers had nothing to do with the west’s insane immigration policies.
I read a story that quoted locals in the area of the attacks on the bars/restaurants saying there were lookouts near the spots of the attacks using mobile phones to communicate. The lookouts appeared to be people from the neighborhood familiar with the lay of the land who blended in and disappeared once the chaos began.
I didn’t mark the link, unfortunately.
Do you see the French closing down mosques or rounding up every Muzzie for export to a Muzzie land? Nope.
Nothing will happen to them and the Muzzie terrorist attacks will continue against the French and every other Europeon country.
They could detonate a nuke in a large Europeon city and the Leftist Europeon governments would still protect the Muzzies!
Shame on the NY Times! You can bet that ALL of the attackers were MUSLIMS.
The word MUSLIM appears only once in the long article and there only in connection with ONE of the attackers.
And no comments allowed at the Times site.
ML/NJ
Why are they now saying they were French citizens when we akready know they were refugees with Syrian passports?
French citizens of Islamic connections— hows that for an edit?
I heard on TV that 1 one the attackers was a French citizen ‘a common criminal, well known to the police, who had been arrested 8 times and was NEVER SENT TO PRISON’ and that he was known to the intelligence agencies and had been listed as ‘Radicalized in June’
This guy probably should have been in prison, those involved in letting him remain free need to be named and pay a price.
One (possibly two?) fake Syrian passports were found.
Reports from Bataclan describe some speaking perfect French. Others say one shooter was blonde. I heard one reported to be possibly female.
“One (possibly two?) fake Syrian passports were found.”
That is quite suspicious.
This is not the side of Paris seen by tourists or business travelers; rather, it’s an area where actual Parisians and people from the banlieues hang out and mix together. They might have gentrified, yet these neighborhoods have retained their proletarian and ethnically-mixed flavor. That whiff of authenticity is part of the neighborhood’s attraction for Parisian Bobos, as they call themselves. The banlieues are the cities and housing projects surrounding Paris, where most of the French youth of immigrant descent live (contrary to popular imagination, the banlieues are far from desolate ghettos, “no-go zones†or breeding grounds for jihadists: they are difficult yet vibrant and dynamic places).
This is the land of hipster socialists. These neighborhoods recently elected a female socialist mayor, as well as a slew of Green Party candidates, even as the rest of the country voted for the more conservative and anti-immigration parties on the Right.
http://fusion.net/story/233036/paris-attack-young-progressive-core/
It’s not hard to believe there would be some people helping the terrorists in that neighborhood.
This is France’s big problem, they have been importing these types for decades and the chickens are coming home to roost, and the only way to eradicate it, is to reopen places like Drancy and the Vel’ d’Hiv.
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