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Paris police fear rioters' heavy arms (French fear muslim guns and grenades)
THE WASHINGTON TIMES ^ | November 7, 2005 | Jennifer Joan Lee

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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TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Front Page News; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: france; frenchmuslims; insurgency; mooligans; muslims; parisriots; rop; surrendermonkeys; terrorists; uprising
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To: GeorgiaDawg32

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.


101 posted on 11/07/2005 10:45:19 AM PST by keats5
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To: George W. Bush

"Got That "Ooo La La, Intifada" Feeling?" is a great read.....thanks for posting that link.


102 posted on 11/07/2005 10:45:59 AM PST by indcons ("Not all muslims are terrorists; however, all terrorists today are muslims." - George Fernandez)
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To: indcons

For sale: French rifle. Never fired. Dropped once.


103 posted on 11/07/2005 10:46:42 AM PST by JillValentine (Lie down with liberals, get up with herpes.)
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To: pbrown

104 posted on 11/07/2005 10:47:11 AM PST by LikeLight
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To: indcons

105 posted on 11/07/2005 10:47:24 AM PST by George W. Bush
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To: libertarianPA

I don't like #4. It smacks of socialism.


106 posted on 11/07/2005 10:48:23 AM PST by keats5
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To: OkieDokie1000

That would be a hoot!


107 posted on 11/07/2005 10:49:28 AM PST by seppel
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To: Cautor

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.


108 posted on 11/07/2005 10:50:34 AM PST by seppel
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To: oldleft

What's that thing in Villepain's holster, a hairbrush?


109 posted on 11/07/2005 10:52:09 AM PST by Designer (Just a nit-pick'n and chagrin'n)
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To: Lady Jag

"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...


110 posted on 11/07/2005 10:54:24 AM PST by milford421
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To: Fruitbat

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.


111 posted on 11/07/2005 10:54:36 AM PST by Cautor
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To: siunevada
"Written with the authoritative voice and encyclopedic knowledge of a 'journalist'."

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.

112 posted on 11/07/2005 10:55:21 AM PST by Designer (Just a nit-pick'n and chagrin'n)
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To: seppel

"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.


113 posted on 11/07/2005 10:55:32 AM PST by Cautor
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To: brazzaville
The Quackenbush .50 smoothbore !
114 posted on 11/07/2005 10:55:32 AM PST by Eric in the Ozarks
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To: keats5

"The French, on the other hand, held a silent march."

I especially enjoyed those, "Say Non to Violence" signs...


115 posted on 11/07/2005 10:55:44 AM PST by milford421
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To: Aquinasfan

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..


116 posted on 11/07/2005 10:58:01 AM PST by griswold3 (Ken Blackwell, Ohio Governor in 2006 - George Allen, POTUS 2008)
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To: Cautor

Are you suggesting rem. 700, 10X Unertl, and .338 Lapua magnum?


117 posted on 11/07/2005 10:58:21 AM PST by PaRebel (The Constitution has no off-switch. Repeal the 17th amendment.)
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To: Black Tooth
We should learn something here.

LOL! Fat chance of that.

Have you forgotten our own suicidal penchant for "political correctness".

118 posted on 11/07/2005 10:58:24 AM PST by Designer (Just a nit-pick'n and chagrin'n)
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To: indcons

Cars are the work of infidels? Why do they want to burn civilization back to the dark ages?


119 posted on 11/07/2005 10:59:43 AM PST by Lady Jag (Semper Paratus! (always prepared))
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To: fso301
I imagine there are a few WWII era Stens, Mausers, MP-40's. Lugers, Walthers and MG-34/42's laying in well oiled flowerbeds throughout the French countryside.

Maybe it's time to start air-dropping some equipment over there.

120 posted on 11/07/2005 11:00:05 AM PST by Designer (Just a nit-pick'n and chagrin'n)
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