RKMBs Forums .::Important::. Politics and Current Events Those wacky Muslim pranksters are at it again

But I have never seen the intel officers flip so many consecutive bitches

PARIS (Reuters) -- Police questioned on Sunday the relatives of one of the suicide attackers who brought carnage to Paris on Friday, with France denouncing the strikes as an act of war and vowing to destroy the Islamic State in Syria and Iraq.

Paris prosecutor Francois Molins told reporters that three jihadist cells staged co-ordinated hits at bars, a concert hall and soccer stadium killing 129 people and injuring 352, including 99 who were in a serious condition.

Museums and theaters remained shuttered in Paris for a second day on Sunday, with hundreds of soldiers and police patrolling the streets and metro stations after French President Francois Hollande declared a state of emergency.

Seven gunmen, all of whom were wearing suicide vests packed with explosives, died in the multiple assaults.




The first to be identified was named as Ismael Omar Mostefai, a 29-year-old who lived in the city of Chartres, southwest of Paris.
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French media said he was French-born and of Algerian descent. Molins said the man had a security file for Islamist radicalization, adding that he had a criminal record but had never spent time in jail.

A judicial source said Mostefai's father and brother had been taken in for questioning, along with other people believed to be close to him.

Another source said police had found a car in a suburb east of Paris that was believed to have been used in the assault, suggesting that at least one of the attackers had escaped.

Prosecutors said the slaughter -- claimed by Islamic State as revenge for French military action in Syria and Iraq -- appeared to involve a multinational team with links to the Middle East, Belgium and possibly Germany as well as home-grown French roots.

Greek officials said one and perhaps two of the assailants had passed through Greece in October from Turkey alongside Syrian refugees fleeing violence in their homeland.

"We are at war. We have been hit by an act of war, organized methodically by a terrorist, jihadist army," Prime Minister Manuel Valls told TF1 television on Saturday night.

"Because we are at war we will take exceptional measures. We will act and we will hit them. We will hit this enemy to destroy them, obviously in France and Europe ... but also in Syria and Iraq," he said. "We will win."

France was the first European state to join U.S. air strikes against Islamic State targets in Iraq in September 2014, while a year later it extended its air strikes to Syria.

It had already scheduled to send an aircraft carrier to the region later this month.




The names of the first victims have started to filter out on social media, many of them young people who were out enjoying themselves on a Friday night. The dead included one U.S. citizen, one Swede, one Briton, two Belgians, two Romanians and two Mexicans, their governments said.

In the worst carnage, three gunmen systematically killed at least 89 people at a rock concert by an American band at the Bataclan theater before detonating explosive belts as anti-terrorist commandos launched an assault.

It was the deadliest attack in France since World War Two and the worst such assault in Europe since the Madrid train bombings of 2004, in which Islamists killed 191 people.

Quoting an unnamed senior official, Israeli television said Israel's spy services saw a "clear operational link" between the Paris mayhem, suicide bombings in Beirut on Thursday, which killed 43, and the Oct. 31 downing of a Russian airliner in the Egyptian Sinai, where 224 people died.

France had been on high alert since Islamist gunmen attacked the satirical weekly Charlie Hebdo and a kosher supermarket in January, killing 18 people.



Those attacks briefly united France in defense of freedom of speech, with a mass demonstration of more than a million people. But that unity has since broken down, with far-right populist Marine Le Pen gaining on both mainstream parties by blaming France's security problems on immigration and Islam.

If confirmed, the infiltration of militants into the flow of refugees to carry out attacks in Europe could have far-reaching political consequences.

The attacks fueled a debate raging in Europe about how to handle the influx of hundreds of thousands of refugees and other migrants propelled by civil war in Syria, Iraq and Libya.

Conservative commentator Patrick Buchanan told Newsmax TV on Wednesday that he questioned "the mindset of the president right now" because he has lashed out at Republicans calling for barring Syrian refugees instead of expressing outrage over the Paris attacks.

"He didn't really show what he should have shown, which was American leadership in the time of a real crisis for our ally in France," Buchanan told "The Steve Malzberg Show," referring to President Barack Obama's remarks Wednesday in the Philippines. "He really seems to be letting Republican criticism get to him.

"The president has not handled this at all well, there's no question about it," Buchanan added. "This was a massacre, a perpetrated massacre, the largest hit on France militarily, lost more casualties than any single incident since World War II.

"He's focusing on the Republican Party — and he's calling it a setback in the war on terror. You have to ask yourself about the mindset of the president right now."

Buchanan, who served Presidents Richard Nixon, Ronald Reagan and Gerald Ford, told Malzberg that he would halt all immigration into the United States and would ban anyone from Muslim countries with deep terrorist ties.

"We know that the Christians in Syria have been persecuted and attacked and singled out as like the Yazidis have — and if you're going to bring in folks from Syria, you ought to give first priority to those who you know really can't survive a victory by ISIS."

Buchanan also slammed Secretary of State John Kerry for his controversial comparison of the Paris attacks to the assault on the satirical French newspaper Charlie Hebdo in January.



"I'm not a fan of Charlie Hebdo and their cartoons, but that does not justify mass murder," he said. "John Kerry is very tired and there's nothing legitimate about mass murder or terrorism against innocent civilians — I don't care whether they write nasty cartoons or not."

US authorities have charged at least 66 men and women with ISIS-related terror plots on American soil – including a handful of refugees, Daily Mail Online can reveal.

The terror group has set its sights on Washington, D.C. as it vows to further infiltrate the West and ramp up its blood-soaked offensive.

President Obama insists that 'slamming the door' on Syrian refugees fleeing ISIS would be a betrayal of American values.

But 34 governors are refusing to take in any more, in case jihadi fighters slip into their states and repeat the carnage of Paris.

Analysis by Daily Mail Online reveals that a handful of foiled plots have already involved immigrants accused of harboring sympathy for ISIS.

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Obama can't even label those attacking France, Belgium, Sweden, Turkey and the U.S. as "radical Islamic terrorists" that are at war with us (and by our defense, we are at war with them, a statement which alone would separate radicals we are at war with from all the rest of Islam, which the king of Jordan has the courage to say, but Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton do not).

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We should be concentrating on the tactics of actually taking them out ...

Well you just go ahead and continue hating Obama more than the terrorists.

His tactics may not be mistake free but it's come with a lower body count for us than his predecessor who made many many mistakes that got lots of people killed. I know you want to pretend W just did the surge but there were many years of war prior to that of creating much of the foundation of isil.