Posted on 11/07/2005 4:38:50 AM PST by alnitak
Yeah, I remember 20 years ago like it was yesterday. For two weeks, I had nothing to eat but split pea soup. It made me feel like burning up cars. /sarc
Soon the world we know what we've all long suspected; a group of uneducated, untrained heathens could defeat the french militarily with ease.
FNC: One of the men beaten in France has died.
Well, isn't that special. I guess if these groups specifically target the property, the persons, then this is just fine . . .
From the Daily Telegraph (note church arson):
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2005/11/07/uparis.xml&sSheet=/portal/2005/11/07/ixportaltop.html
More than 30 police have been injured and 1,400 vehicles set alight in the 11th night of violence in France.
About 2,300 extra officers have been drafted in
The unrest spread throughout the country in the worst night of rioting so far, with 395 people detained. A police union spokesman called recent events 'the worst since the Second World War'.
In Grigny, south of Paris, police were lured into a housing estate and attacked with pellet guns, rocks and petrol bombs. About 10 officers were injured, two seriously with pellets in the neck and legs.
Youths seized a bus in Saint-Etienne in central France, ordering passengers off and setting fire to the vehicle. The driver and one passenger were hurt.
In the eastern city of Strasbourg, rioters threw Molotov cocktails into a primary school, while in Toulouse a blazing car was pushed into a metro entrance.
At Lens in the north, a firebomb was thrown at a church. In nearby Lille, about 50 cars were torched and a Belgian television reporter was beaten up.
The violence began on October 27 with the accidental electrocution of two youths fleeing police outside Paris.
Many of those taking part in the riots are French-born citizens of Arab or African origin, and are complaining of racial discrimination.
Action Police CFTC, France's police union, urged the government to impose a curfew on the trouble-hit areas and call in the army to control the rioters.
"Nothing seems to be able to stop the civil war that spreads a bit more every day across the whole country," they said in a statement.
"The events we're living through now are without precedent since the end of the Second World War."
President Jacques Chirac has vowed to defeat the rioters and restore order to the country.
In his first public comments since the unrest began, Mr Chirac said the state was determined "to be stronger than those who want to sow violence or fear".
Some 2,300 extra officers have already been drafted in to quell the riots.
One of France's largest Muslim organisations reacted to official suggestions that Islamist militants might be organising some of the protests by issuing a fatwa against the unrest.
' "The law must have the last word," Mr Chirac told reporters in his first public address on the violence on Sunday. '
Like Food-for-Oil? Like the Baath Party of Iraq? Tell me another, Chi-rat.
It's all how you phrase your fatwa, I guess.
His widow? Jumping the gun, it appears.
"'It is strictly forbidden for any Muslim... to take part in any action that strikes blindly at private or public property or that could threaten the lives of others,' the fatwa by the Union of Islamic Organisations in France said."
There is always double-talk in any muslim "condemnation" of the actions of muslims: They are not striking blindly!
We will be seeing the same rioting here if we do not snuff out this terrorist organization that masquerades as a religion.
LOL, that's a good one!
Hey, frogsters, could you help us barbaric Americans with our racism?
"In Grigny, south of Paris, police were lured into a housing estate and attacked with pellet guns, rocks and petrol bombs."
Thank you for clearing something up for me. Someone insisted that they were using 'shotguns' instead of pellet guns. And while the Malitov Cocktails are lethal weapons in their own right, putting things in perspective, it appears this riot doesn't have much lethal intent against police-- yet.
Dear France,
It is obvious to terrorists that since you did not
join the War On Terror, they have found a new home.
Your country.
Enjoy.
RBA
You beat me to it! I picked that out instantly. These scum need to be shipped back home now!
Last night on Drudge the Washington Times reports the rioters may have access to heavy arms now including grenades. Here's an excerpt:
PARIS -- Police officers, exhausted and dispirited after 11 nights of street battles, say their mainly young African and Arab adversaries have access to sophisticated weapons including grenades and could soon begin using them.
http://www.washtimes.com/world/20051107-122439-9658r.htm
OK, now she is his widow.
Yes, it is. Take careful note of the use of weasel-words:
It is strictly forbidden for any Muslim... to take part in any action that strikes blindly at private or public property or that could threaten the lives of others
So "striking blindly" is bad. Striking with intent and directed purpose, on the other hand...
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