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DonViejo

(60,536 posts)
Fri Feb 3, 2017, 11:49 AM Feb 2017

Trump tells US to 'get smart' after Paris machete attack

Source: AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE


03 FEB 2017 AT 10:25 ET

President Donald Trump said Friday that the United States must “get smart” after a machete-wielding man attacked security forces at the Louvre museum in Paris while yelling “Allahu akbar” (“God is greatest”).

Trump said the attacker was a “radical Islamic terrorist,” using a term he has used previously to describe such attackers.

“A new radical Islamic terrorist has just attacked in Louvre Museum in Paris. Tourists were locked down. France on edge again. GET SMART U.S.,” Trump wrote on Twitter.

In a briefing earlier this week, a senior US administration official defended the temporary US travel ban on refugees and other travelers from seven predominantly Muslim countries by saying America was trying to avoid the security situation in France and other European countries.

Read more: http://www.rawstory.com/2017/02/trump-tells-us-to-get-smart-after-paris-machete-attack/

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DK504

(3,847 posts)
9. France on edge again.
Fri Feb 3, 2017, 12:25 PM
Feb 2017

Somehow I don't think the French are walking down the street looking around to see if a dark skinned person is next to them.

Trump is tweeting while SEAL dies along with innocent children. I do so wish US would 'GET SMART."

wordpix

(18,652 posts)
17. send that to him on twitter, he'll go nuts (he already is)
Fri Feb 3, 2017, 06:16 PM
Feb 2017

article doesn't say where the machete wielder is from

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