[Cplus]

At least one reporter has gotten off the barstool in central Paris, and done some actual reporting, instead of phoning in government press releases like the AP, the AFP etc. As LikeLight reminded me yesterday, the blog http://no-pasaran.blogspot.com/ is a better source for actual info than the media. Interestingly, they report that the rebels are communicating via their own blogs, while the dinosaur government and the state controlled media are mystified by the coordination of their actions. Another item for those who still belive that France is an historical ally: A short war in Iraq "is not desirable", was Villepin's reaction as France's foreign minister In a new book about his time as foreign minister, called Cent Semaines, [Dominique de Villepin] is portrayed through a series of negative anecdotes as "immeasurably pretentious." In one account, the book tells how the foreign minister was informed at a meeting at the Quai d'Orsay that the American-led war agaist Saddam Hussein would likely be a short one. His response: "That's not desirable. France would appear ridiculous."

[oldbrowser]

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.

[TLI]

"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.

[Phantom Lord]

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

[USFRIENDINVICTORIA]

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?