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Posted on 11/08/2005 4:47:13 AM PST by conservativecorner
The riots in France have little connection to the Islamist terrorist offensive against the West, if the American media coverage gives any indication. However, alert CQ reader Mr. Michael points out that both American and French media sources warned of coordinated Islamist action against France in the weeks before the riot. Agence France Presse even had a quote from the maligned Nicolas Sarkozy noting the imminent nature of the threat in its 9/27 dispatch:
An Algerian Islamist organisation, the Salafist Group for Preaching and Combat (GSPC), has issued a call for action against France which it describes as "enemy number one", intelligence officials said Tuesday. "The only way to teach France to behave is jihad and the Islamic martyr," the group's leader Abu Mossab Abdelwadoud, also own as Abdelmalek Dourkdal, was quoted as saying in an Internet message earlier this month.
"France is our enemy number one, the enemy of our religion, the enemy of our community," he was quoted as saying. ... Interior minister Nicolas Sarkozy said Monday that the risk of terrorist attack in France is "at a very high level... There are cells operating on our territory."
The French government took that warning seriously enough to make a sweep of Paris for GSPC operatives. It didn't make a dent, however, according to the Washington Post. On October 19th, John Ward Anderson reported to American readers that the Islamists had recruited French citizens for Middle East training in jihad, with the intention of having them initiate warfare within France:
French police investigating plans by a group of Islamic extremists to attack targets in Paris discovered last month that the group was recruiting French citizens to train in the Middle East and return home to carry out terrorist attacks, sources familiar with the investigation said. One French official said the extremists were using a virtual "underground railroad" through Syria to spirit European and Middle Eastern citizens into and out of Iraq. A senior French law enforcement official, who declined to be quoted by name because he was speaking about classified information, said French citizens had undergone terrorist training at camps in Iraq, Syria and Lebanon.
"There's always been an enormous jihad zone to train people to fight in their country of origin," the official said. "We saw it Afghanistan, in Bosnia, in Kosovo, and now we're seeing it in Iraq."
That prelude certainly seems more than a mere coincidence to me. Within six weeks of the GSPC announcement, we see a massive and coordinated uprising originating from the ghettoes in which Algerian and other Muslim refugees and their families live. The "riots' have sophisticated coordination between cell leaders, using the Internet and instant messaging as well as cell phones -- an odd tool for a spontaneous demonstration where one neighborhood would hardly have those phone numbers at the ready.
The Islamist connection might get ignored by the media now, but when it involved Iraq as a training base (as the Post article did), they had no hesitation in writing about it. One wonders why they have suddenly developed amnesia about it now.
Worth noting is how slow the media is to emphasize the fact that the riots consist of Muslims - this is always buried deep into the story. This on top of the fact that most of our media barely speaks of it. You can bet that, if it were white supremacists behind these riots it would be the first news story of every outlet with emphasis on the negativity of such behavior.
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Newsweek: Don't Panic
Newsweek assures the readers that even though the disaffected youths are crying “Jihad!” it’s really nothing to worry about: The Fire This Time. (Hat tip: NC.)
Night after night last week rage spread through the ghettos that ring Paris, then beyond—to the slums of Dijon in Burgundy, Rouen in Normandy, Toulouse, Rennes, Marseilles. When, on the fourth night, a tear-gas canister exploded near the entrance to a warehouselike mosque in Clichy-sous-Bois, forcing hundreds of worshipers to flee barefoot and gagging into Place Anatole France, a new cry went up from the vandals. “Now this is war,” said one. Others cried “jihad.”
It was neither, in fact, and the Paris known to tourists was not burning.
Good night, and good luck.
I thought only Burger King went with the char-broiled hamburgers?
Thanks for the numerous links showing the actions of the irritated "youths". Islamo-fascists but God forbid we call them this because it's not PC.
mark. Two issues. First the railroad; then the "questionable" items ferried out of Iraq and into Syria in the days pre-WOT.
In a sane world, these "citizens" would be stripped of citizenship and deported to their country of origin.
As for the recruiters? Identified, arrested, tried and executed.
A Fox News reporter in France this morning, on Fox & Friends, called them TEENAGERS this morning.
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Remember the clashes just recently where the KKK marched in some black neighborhood and the gangs started fights and the MSM with straight faces said the KKK started the fighting when all the photos clearly showed minorities? They don't even have to be behind the rioting to get blamed. Good point.
Following excerpted from - Wikipedia Free Encylopedia
In the early morning hours of November 1, 1954, FLN maquisards (guerrillas) launched attacks in various parts of Algeria against military installations, police posts, warehouses, communications facilities, and public utilities. From Cairo, the FLN broadcast a proclamation calling on Muslims in Algeria to join in a national struggle for the "restoration of the Algerian state, sovereign, democratic, and social, within the framework of the principles of Islam." The French minister of interior, socialist François Mitterrand, responded sharply that "the only possible negotiation is war." It was the reaction of Premier Pierre Mendès-France, who only a few months before had completed the liquidation of France's empire in Indochina, that set the tone of French policy for the next five years. On November 12, he declared in the National Assembly: "One does not compromise when it comes to defending the internal peace of the nation, the unity and integrity of the Republic. The Algerian departments are part of the French Republic. They have been French for a long time, and they are irrevocably French… Between them and metropolitan France there can be no conceivable secession."
"The only way to teach France to behave is jihad and the Islamic martyr," the group's leader Abu Mossab Abdelwadoud, also own as Abdelmalek Dourkdal,
The only picture I have seen of a rioter being arrested did NOT support that "fact". He had a bald spot on the crown of his head, but maybe moslems begin to lose their hair earlier than others.
A Fox News reporter in France this morning, on Fox & Friends, called them TEENAGERS this morning.
10 posted on 11/08/2005 5:14:22 AM PST by nicmarlo
Nicmar, I realize now after reading in your post that FOX called them "teenagers" that we are being too hard on them.
Just kids having fun is all they are.
Why did it take me so long to see this?
Because you have a brain? : )
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