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ellenrr

(3,864 posts)
Wed Jan 7, 2015, 05:43 PM Jan 2015

The Paris massacre:This time the killers are professionals

They arrived fully armed and equipped – one of them with combat webbing holding Kalashnikov magazines. They moved carefully down the street, maintaining eye contact, and shot with discipline. They carried out advance surveillance, knew how to overcome the security systems and to arrive during the weekly editorial meetings when all the journalists, including the cartoonists they had targeted for insulting the prophet, would be present.

This is the double nightmare of Western security services. Trained jihadist terrorists, with Mideastern experience; native Europeans moving freely on the continent and speaking the local lingo. Now, after escaping the scene without being identified, they have gone to ground in a city of 12 million.

http://www.haaretz.com/news/world/1.635884

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The Paris massacre:This time the killers are professionals (Original Post) ellenrr Jan 2015 OP
They've been identified jberryhill Jan 2015 #1
They do know who they are now. polly7 Jan 2015 #2
unrec for inaccurate, sensationalistic writing uppityperson Jan 2015 #3
so professional that they ALLEGEDLY left their IDs in their stolen get-away car frylock Jan 2015 #4
It's open season on DU whatchamacallit Jan 2015 #5
This message was self-deleted by its author AtomicKitten Jan 2015 #6
this is incorrect information. KittyWampus Jan 2015 #7

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