Posted on 11/07/2005 9:53:59 AM PST by indcons
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. A dozen officers were injured, two of them seriously, after being shot with hunting rifles fitted with lead pellets during rioting last night in the suburb of Grigny, south of Paris, police said. Jean-Christophe Carne, president of a police trade union, told The Washington Times before last night's outbreak that police officers were increasingly pessimistic that civic order would be restored anytime soon. "Most of these kids are being coached by professional petty criminals and gang leaders in the suburbs," said Mr. Carne, president of Action Police CFTC. "In the past, when we have cracked down on these criminals in their homes, we found drugs, grenades and heavy weapons such as guns. While they haven't started using these arms yet, there's also no reason to think they wouldn't."
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I think you're exactly right. The local government failed to protect the people in New Orleans, but enough citizens grabbed their guns and protected themselves, so that the looting didn't last too long. The French, on the other hand, held a silent march.
"Got That "Ooo La La, Intifada" Feeling?" is a great read.....thanks for posting that link.
For sale: French rifle. Never fired. Dropped once.
I don't like #4. It smacks of socialism.
That would be a hoot!
Give the guy a break. They do want to enjoy the coffee, cake and pretty girls in Paris. So send out a tank with a handful of guys.
What's that thing in Villepain's holster, a hairbrush?
"What dumb asps! What other animal craps where it sleeps?"
None that I'm aware of....
Muslim "disaffected youths" have burned Churches, injured citizens, violence has spread through 300 cities, Germany, Belgium...
I'm beginning to wonder whether the French are indeed too timid to confront these rag heads. If they are, these friends of Kerry are done.
After having been translated from the French. Perhaps there is only one word for "long gun" that is supposed to suffice for both rifles and shotguns?
HUGE benefit of the doubt.
"Give the guy a break. They do want to enjoy the coffee, cake and pretty girls in Paris. So send out a tank with a handful of guys."
I think the Frito Bandito could do the job just fine.
"The French, on the other hand, held a silent march."
I especially enjoyed those, "Say Non to Violence" signs...
The jihadists are going to be moving from Iraq to France if they haven't already.
It'd be interesting to see if there were any corelation during this time..
Are you suggesting rem. 700, 10X Unertl, and .338 Lapua magnum?
LOL! Fat chance of that.
Have you forgotten our own suicidal penchant for "political correctness".
Cars are the work of infidels? Why do they want to burn civilization back to the dark ages?
Maybe it's time to start air-dropping some equipment over there.
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