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Just 20 minutes from Paris, it's war
The Weekend Australian ^ | Nov. 5, 2005 | Emma-Kate Symons

Posted on 11/04/2005 8:19:26 AM PST by Cplus

"THIS is a war." It is late in the evening marking the end of Ramadan when 13-year-old Souhail, a French Muslim of Moroccan origin, makes his bellicose declaration.

(Excerpt) Read more at theaustralian.news.com.au ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: france; paris; parisriots; riots
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To: oyez

Vous ne nous effrayez pas, porc-chiens anglais.


41 posted on 11/04/2005 8:50:28 AM PST by A message
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How long before Jim-may Carter shows up in Paris and draws up a brilliant peace plan that will leave everyone with huggies and kissies?


42 posted on 11/04/2005 8:53:28 AM PST by CheyennePress
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To: keithtoo

Seems to me there's "de facto" French representation within NATO. There was quite a scuffle a while back as to whether the French withdrew or not, as I understand it...the mutual defense pacts are still in place under the old NATO agreement.

Nevertheless...the same logic applies, we'd never let France become Franiston...it would be a threat to our National Security.


43 posted on 11/04/2005 8:55:27 AM PST by in hoc signo vinces ("Houston, TX...a waiting quagmire for jihadis.")
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To: Cplus
From that blog:

The night's activity: 400 cars and 27 buses burned in the Paris area. 3 warehouses burned down and many government and administrative buildings hit by fire bombs. Car burnings being reported in other regions of the country. Despite this the French preSS is stating that the violence is down and that there were no riots last night. Now that the French have seen how all of this is being reported in other parts of the world, there is a concerted effort by French media to downplay the violence and show as little of it as possible. i-Tele and Europe1 have already openly discussed reporting less on the riots (so as to not fan the flames), and LCI cable TV news (owned by TF1) is opening the day's newscast with reports of the Marseille transit strike, now in day 32.

I wonder what they'll report when all of these so-called "leaders" are lined up against a wall for mass executions after the muslims take over?

44 posted on 11/04/2005 8:55:58 AM PST by Brett66 (Where government advances – and it advances relentlessly – freedom is imperiled -Janice Rogers Brown)
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To: Cplus

None of my business!!
France created the problem, France can clean it up.
Some in the US who follow the same agenda are going to be busy cleaning up some.


45 posted on 11/04/2005 8:58:23 AM PST by jec41 (Screaming Eagle)
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To: Cplus
AMERICA-BE WARNED!


46 posted on 11/04/2005 8:58:56 AM PST by jslade
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To: Cplus

I wonder why the MSM is not salivating over body counts ? I cannot believe that thousands of cars have been burnt and many businesses destroyed and only a few people got hurt.


47 posted on 11/04/2005 9:00:43 AM PST by oldbrowser (A living, breathing constitution is a usurpation of the people's sovereignty.)
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To: in hoc signo vinces
That is true. France can't even 'leave' an organization like NATO and do it right.

They are sorta kinda still members, but not really.

Makes one wonder whether their future surrender to the armies of Islam will be a real surrender or just a on-again-off-again capitulation.

48 posted on 11/04/2005 9:01:01 AM PST by keithtoo (Vast Right Wing Conspiracy - Founding Member)
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To: Brett66

Good one.

This blog has been on the case about the gulf between manipulated media reports and what's happening on the ground.

Also mentioned the huge preponderance of public opinion in favor of asserting control reflected in such talk radio as there is in France.


49 posted on 11/04/2005 9:01:39 AM PST by Cplus (More news from blogs than media)
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To: Andy from Beaverton

Who are the chick and the kid?


50 posted on 11/04/2005 9:06:38 AM PST by OKSooner
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To: i_dont_chat
John Kerry, where are you?

He's working on his secret plan, even as we speak!

51 posted on 11/04/2005 9:08:36 AM PST by TX Bluebonnet
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To: keithtoo


Well, it's France, they're only part of something when it is to their benefit, and their benefit only.


52 posted on 11/04/2005 9:12:07 AM PST by in hoc signo vinces ("Houston, TX...a waiting quagmire for jihadis.")
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To: Cplus
"THIS is a war." ....13-year-old Souhail, a French Muslim of Moroccan origin,

So.... a 13 year old terrorist? How nice.

Thennnnn...

"This is a war between the police and the young people and it is the police's fault," he says. "The police and (Interior Minister Nicolas) Sarkozy, because he uses words like 'scum' to describe us.

"Where are their parents?" Claude asks later. "There are children as young as 12 -- at midnight, they are still in the streets. Their families must take responsibility. There should be a curfew."

Sounds like a description like "scum" just might not be too far off the mark.

53 posted on 11/04/2005 9:18:14 AM PST by TLI (ITINERIS IMPENDEO VALHALLA, Minuteman Project AZ Day -1 to Day 8, Texas Minutemen El Paso, 32 Days)
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To: ANGGAPO

Didn't even need a disaster of biblical proportions (i.e., Katrina) to expose the weaknesses in France's social fabric.


54 posted on 11/04/2005 9:28:40 AM PST by Sharkaroo
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To: Polyxene
Sadly, I fear they have no inkling as to what is actually happening to their country. Welcome to Franistan.

I'm afraid you're right. I used to think that at some point, they, and Europe, would wake up and say, "HEY! Wait a minute!" and implement their own version ethnic cleansing. (It seems that Euros can't see what's coming and then they overreact - like our politicians.)

Read this article. I got about half-way through, after the blind-eye approach to crime by the public and police, and the dilitante politicians, and blurted out "My God! These people are doomed!". Of all the articles I've read on the riots and their causes, this one really drove a stake in their heart. They have neither the will nor the courage to take back their country.

55 posted on 11/04/2005 9:38:39 AM PST by Oatka (Hyphenated-Americans have hyphenated-loyalties -- Victor Davis Hanson)
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To: Oatka; Polyxene
Sadly, I fear they have no inkling as to what is actually happening to their country. Welcome to Franistan.

The owner of my company just returned from Paris on Monday and made no mention of any of the problems over there during his visit. I suspect he didn't even know if was going on.

56 posted on 11/04/2005 9:50:34 AM PST by Phantom Lord (Fall on to your knees for the Phantom Lord)
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To: Cplus

If France fell into complete chaos with unending rioting over the next few months, personally I would get a good chuckle out of it.


57 posted on 11/04/2005 9:51:54 AM PST by Phantom Lord (Fall on to your knees for the Phantom Lord)
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To: i_dont_chat

John Kerry, where are you?

Hiding in a spider hole cause he thinks 20 min. from Paris is way too close for comfort.


58 posted on 11/04/2005 9:57:48 AM PST by wolfcreek
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To: in hoc signo vinces

You mention the nuclear arsenal in France, but another concern is that much of the electricity generated in France comes from nuclear power plants.

It's probably not co-incidental that there are a lot of Islamists there.


59 posted on 11/04/2005 10:44:30 AM PST by Disambiguator (Making accusations of racism is the last refuge of a scoundrel.)
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To: Cplus

Whatever happened to microwave crowd control devices (among other new "less than lethal" weapons). I've been expecting to see them deployed in Iraq. Would they do any good in Paris? (Napoleon's "whiff of grapeshot" is probably not considered PC anymore.)

If the microwave devices are deployed; what setting do you use -- High, Medium, Defrost?


60 posted on 11/04/2005 11:10:19 AM PST by USFRIENDINVICTORIA (")
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