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TERROR ATTACK IN PARIS


Eleven people have been killed and 10 – 15 people wounded, 5 of whom seriously wounded (4 critically) in a terrorist attack in the offices of the Charlie Hebdo satire magazine on boulevard Richard-Lenoir in Paris (Paris XI).

Two policemen have been killed among the 11.


At least 2 or 3 gunman are believed to have been involved, shooting Kalashnikov rifles.
Witnesses say they heard the shooters say, “We’ve avenged the honor of the prophet!” according to Sky News.
According to Le Figaro, the gunman are on the run after a shootout with policemen.


A pedestrian has been injured by the terrorist’s vehicle, and there has been a second shootout, according to Le Figaro.

Paris is now at the highest alert level.
The magazine has published anti-ISIS and Prophet Mohammed cartoons in the past.

The Jewish Press » » UPDATED ? 11 Killed in Paris Terror Attack, Manhunt Underway [video]

http://abcnews.go.com/International...rench-satirical-paper-police-witness-28050653


http://edition.cnn.com/videos/tv/2015/01/07/newday-gunfire-france-satirical-magazine-office.cnn
 
But UK journalists want all magazines to publish the cartoon in their cover and display their solidarity. Whether europe fights or not india has to be cautious, aware and fight the ideology tooth and nail.
 
Killing 10 journalists and 2 policemen is a despicable terror act...Is it the work of Al Qaeda

Charlie Hebdo attack: Paris gunman used gesture adopted by radical Islamists - Telegraph

The gunmen who killed 12 people in and around the office of Charlie Hebdo magazine in Paris acted with a skill and calmness that bears all the hallmarks of advanced military training.

They were also fully equipped for their murderous task. Photographs taken at the scene show two men clad entirely in black, their faces concealed by balaclavas. Each one is armed with an AK47 assault rifle.

They wear army-style boots and have a military appearance and manner. One of the men wears a sand-coloured ammunition vest apparently stuffed with spare magazines.
 
Paris Terror Attack update


Paris Terror Attack update

• Two gunmen entered the offices of French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo and opened fire. Witnesses reported seeing hooded men shouting “Allahu Akbar” carrying pump-action Kalashnikovs going into the magazine’s offices and then hearing heavy gunfire. Police said three attackers were involved, including one who drove a car to the scene.


• So far, 12 people have been confirmed dead – 10 Charlie Hebdo staff and two police officers. Video footage showed one of the officers being shot at close range as he lay injured on the street. Five others are seriously wounded. Police described a scene of “butchery” inside Charlie Hebdo’s offices.


• The attackers fled the magazine’s offices in a side street off the Boulevard Richard-Lenoir in a hijacked car and are still at large. They were last seen heading towards the Porte de Pantin metro station, north-east of the magazine’s offices. The French interior minister, Bernard Cazeneuve, said all measures were being taken “to neutralise these three criminals”.


• Four of the Charlie Hebdo journalists reportedly killed in the attack have been named by French media. They are the magazine’s editor and cartoonist, Stéphane Charbonnier, known as Charb; and three other cartoonists: Cabu, Georges Wolinski and Bernard Verlhac, known as Tignous. Writer and economist Bernard Maris, who contributed to Charlie Hebdo, was also reportedly killed.


• Charlie Hebdo’s editor-in-chief, Gérard Biard, escaped the attack because he was in London. He expressed his shock and said the magazine had had no specific threats of violence. “A newspaper is not a weapon of war,” he said.


• The terror alert in Paris has been raised to its highest level. Children have been evacuated from schools in 11th arrondissement, where the attack occurred, while police have been deployed to guard newspaper offices, shopping centres, museums and railway stations.


• The French president, François Hollande, said the country was in shock following what he said was a terrorist attack. He called for national unity and pledged punishment against the attackers.


• Charlie Hebdo has been the subject of violent attacks in the past, following its publication of cartoons of the prophet Muhammad. Its offices were firebombed in 2011, and recent threats have also been made against it and other media groups. Riot police were deployed to its offices in 2012 after it published more Muhammad cartoons, including images of him naked.


• The attack has prompted swift and widespread international condemnation. Unesco’s director general, Irina Bokova, said it was “shocking attack on the freedom of expression”. The White House condemned the attack in the “strongest possible terms”. The president of the EU commission, Jean-Claude Juncker, said he was “deeply shocked”


Paris terror attack: what we know so far | World news | The Guardian
 
• The attackers fled the magazine’s offices in a side street off the Boulevard Richard-Lenoir in a hijacked car and are still at large. They were last seen heading towards the Porte de Pantin metro station, north-east of the magazine’s offices. The French interior minister, Bernard Cazeneuve, said all measures were being taken “to neutralise these three criminals”.
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This looks like a clear Commando Type Operation . The men looked well trained and acted with precision and fled . I am surprised that even when this particular Publication was on the Terrorist radar ,adequate security was not there . These men could not have done this act in isolation .This is a well co-ordinated action with good intelligence support and assistance from others .I doubt whether the men would get caught . More will be known only when they are caught .
 
Terrible tragedy ! Shocking that the Intel agencies failed to thwart this attack. Given that these people were involved in the prophet cartoon controversy, this is a unprecedented failure of the security/Intel agencies !!
 
The touching tributes to the victims of the Charlie Hebdo shooting


The touching tributes to the victims of the Charlie Hebdo shooting


Social media users have been changing their avatars and tweeting out images in solidarity with the victims of the Charlie Hebdo massacre.

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http://i100.independent.co.uk/artic...ims-of-the-charlie-hebdo-shooting--lJVs7t8dcx
 
Four of France's most revered cartoonists were among 12 people executed

Four of France's most revered cartoonists were among 12 people executed

Four of France's most revered cartoonists - Stephane Charbonnier, Georges Wolinski, Bernard 'Tignous' Verlhac and Jean Cabut - were among 12 people executed by masked gunmen in Paris today at the offices of satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo.



Two masked men brandishing Kalashnikovs burst into the magazine's headquarters this morning, opening fire on staff, also shooting dead revered economist and contributor Bernard Maris, 68.

Police officers were involved in a gunfight with the 'calm and highly disciplined men', who escaped in a hijacked car, speeding away towards east Paris. They remain on the loose, along with a third armed man.

Tributes have been pouring in to 'heroic' men who refused to be intimidated and who saw their work as vital tools of political expression, with one Twitter user stating 'you wanted to kill Charlie Hebdo, you just made it immortal'.



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Charlie Hebdo cartoonists slaughtered for 'insulting prophet' | Daily Mail Online




Charbonnier, 47, known by his pen name Charb, was the editor of the weekly magazine, and once famously said 'I'd prefer to die standing than live on my knees'. He also declared, in the face of animosity from extremists, 'I live under French law, not Koranic law'.



Gifted satirist Cabut, 76, also called Cabu, was Charlie Hebdo's lead cartoonist, Wolinski an 80-year-old satirist who had been drawing cartoons since the 1960s and Tignous a much-admired 57-year-old contributor to the publication.



As the world expressed its horror at the massacre, Charlie Hebdo's editor-in-chief Gerard Biard said 'a newspaper is not a weapon of war.'
 
[FONT=&quot]Islamist mini-states inside France?[/FONT]
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[FONT=&quot]A backdrop to the massacre in Paris on Wednesday ….is that city officials have increasingly ceded control of heavily Muslim neighborhoods to Islamists, block by block.[/FONT]
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[FONT=&quot]France has Europe's largest population of Muslims, some of whom talk openly of ruling the country one day and casting aside Western legal systems for harsh, Islam-based Shariah law.[/FONT]
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[FONT=&quot]"The situation is out of control, and it is not reversible," said Soeren Kern, an analyst at the Gatestone Institute and author of annual reports on the "Islamization of France."[/FONT]
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[FONT=&quot]"Islam is a permanent part of France now. It is not going away," Mr. Kern said. "I think the future looks very bleak. The problem is a lot of these younger-generation Muslims are not integrating into French society. Although they are French citizens, they don't really have a future in French society. They feel very alienated from France. This is why radical Islam is so attractive because it gives them a sense of meaning in their life."[/FONT]
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[FONT=&quot]"There are no-go areas not just in Paris, but all over France, where they are effectively in control," said Robert Spencer, who directs JihadWatch.org, a nonprofit that monitors Muslim extremists. "They're operating with impunity, apparently secure in the knowledge that authorities cannot or will not act decisively to stop them," he said. [/FONT]
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[FONT=&quot]Mr. Kern said the connection between the attack and the Islamization movement is that French jihadis are becoming bolder in trying to stamp out any criticism of Islam.[/FONT]
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[FONT=&quot]"What they are trying to do is shut down any sort of criticism of Islam, any sort of speech, cartoons, discussion, anything," he said. "Essentially, the French government and the other European governments have lost control over the situation. It's a snowball that is growing bigger and bigger, in particular over the past 10 years."[/FONT]
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[FONT=&quot](A) think tank, led by John R. Bolton, former U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, said the country's Muslim population last year reached 6.5 million, or 10 percent of its 66 million people. That makes France the European country with the largest Muslim minority.[/FONT]
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[FONT=&quot]Some Muslim activists gleefully predict that France will be a Muslim-majority country in the not-too-distant future.[/FONT]
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[FONT=&quot]"Who has the right to say that France in 30 or 40 years will not be a Muslim country? Who has the right in this country to deprive us of it?" said Marwan Muhammed, a spokesman for Collective Against Islamophobia in France.[/FONT]
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[FONT=&quot]....Muslims are creating a separate public school society "completely cut off from non-Muslim students." Over 1,000 French supermarkets are selling Islamic books that call for jihad and the killing of non-Muslims.[/FONT]
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[FONT=&quot]The Washington Times[/FONT]
 
"There are no-go areas not just in Paris, but all over France, where they are effectively in control," said Robert Spencer, who directs JihadWatch.org, a nonprofit that monitors Muslim extremists. "They're operating with impunity, apparently secure in the knowledge that authorities cannot or will not act decisively to stop them,"
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So is the case in many other european countries. In south too, in 'ukkadam' area of coimbatore, the police were forbidden by the residents and the ruling DMK patriarch. If europe does not wake up, it has a bleak future.

 
officer Ahmed Merabet - believed to be Muslim - being shot in the head at point-blank

officer Ahmed Merabet - believed to be Muslim - being shot in the head at point-blank

The 42-year-old married officer seen raising his hand in an appeal for mercy, as he lies wounded on the pavement
Masked gunmen stormed Charlie Hebdo magazines headquarters in Paris with AK-47s shouting 'Allahu akbar!'
They stalked building asking for people's names before killing editor, three cartoonists and the deputy chief editor
Militants believed to be from Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula which was behind plane bomb plots in US and UK
Three suspects said to be all French citizens - a homeless teenage man aged 18, and two brothers aged 32 and 34
Gunmen identified as Said Kouachi, 34, and his brother Cherif, 32, as well as Hamyd Mourad, 18, from Reims
Mourad surrendered to police 'after seeing his name on social media' and was arrested, source close to case said
Britain offered for MI5 and MI6 to join hunt as border guards were on high alert for suspects attempting to flee to UK

This is the disturbing moment that a murdered police officer pleaded for his life before being shot dead by masked gunmen who launched a deadly terrorist attack on an anti-Islamist newspaper in France.



A video from the scene of yesterday's massacre shows officer Ahmed Merabet - believed to be a Muslim - lying wounded on the pavement and begging for mercy before being shot at point-blank range by the terrorists.



As they approach, the 42-year-old is seen raising his hand in appeal for mercy, before asking: ‘Do you want to kill me?’ The gunman then answers: ‘OK chief’ before shooting him through the head with the assault rifle.
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A cartoon on Mohammed can get you killed, while a satire on Hindu beliefs can get you 300 crores...This is the latest going in social media! A sad commentary on our so called Hindu tolerance! Do we stand for anything at all?
 
'Shots Fired' As Paris Suspects 'Located'

'Shots Fired' As Paris Suspects 'Located'

Two men matching the descriptions of brothers Said and Cherif Kouachi are reportedly spotted by a petrol station manager.

Shots have been fired at a petrol station where the two suspects in the Charlie Hebdo magazine attack have been spotted, according to French media.


A massive manhunt is under way for the gunmen who killed 12 people in an assault at the magazine's Paris offices on Wednesday.


AFP reported a source who said two men fitting the description of brothers Said Kouachi and Cherif Kouachi were seen by the manager of a petrol station near Villers-Cotteret in the northern Aisne region, east of Paris, this morning.


Le Parisien said men wearing balaclavas were travelling in the direction of Paris in a Renault Clio which was also carrying firearms.


Officials have said the French nationals are linked to a Yemeni terror network

On Wednesday night heavily armoured French police raided an apartment in the city of Reims in the search for the killers.
French officials said seven people were detained overnight.


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'Shots Fired' As Paris Suspects 'Located'
 
Le us hope france takes this seriously and drives out all immigrant muslims from north africa and contains native indoctrinated muslims. They have realized that assimilation is not possible and the threat to make france an islamic state is loud and clear. A warning for other european states too. My friends from london and birmingham too are not happy about the changes there.
 
There was huge cry and tears by many members when a Malaysian Airline vanished , but when the loss of life occurred in Australia, Pakistan and Indonesian Airlines disappearance, or in France there is hardly any response from them; Human life anywhere is same.
 
What can we as a nation learn from the Paris massacre

What can we as a nation learn from the Paris massacre

What can we as a nation learn from the Paris massacre to successfully deal with jihadi terrorism? Here are some home truths:


1. Terror semantics: There are no “good” or “bad” terrorists. It is probably alright for Pakistan and the US, which get cozy with terrorist groups, but not for us. Let us not quibble with the home ministry semantics of “extremists”, “militants”,” “insurgents” or talk of politicising terrorism. Terrorism has been politics all along and in some cases part of international diplomacy. The time for politically correct terminology became passé after the 26/11 attacks. Security agencies must treat all extremist acts as terrorist acts till proved otherwise. Politicians must not get cozy with terrorists for a few more votes (will the Punjab CM note please?); its dangerous. Terrorists have no loyalty.

2. Jihadi terror is universal: Jihadi terrorists are no more Arabic or Urdu speaking turbaned guy drawn from the Hollywood classic “Seven Pillars of Wisdom.” He comes from all over the world; he can be westernised, fluent in many languages and trained in warfare. So we should make our verification procedures real time and universal. In Eastern India let us puncture the myth of poor illegal immigrants. Even among those who look helpless and poor, there could be terrorists. Our border security and customs agencies should get cracking on them, rather than cashing on them.


3. What's in a name?: Chou en Lai once said it does not matter whether the cat is black or white as long as it catches mouse. This is what the jihadi philosophy is all about. The Jihaid cat regardless of its colour is out to kill. It makes no difference whether it belongs to ISIS or Al Qaeda or LeT or Jaish, for that matter SIMI also. All of them are deadly terrorists.



4. Keeping tab of terrorism suspects: One of the Paris massacre culprits Cherif Kouachi was arrested and punished in May 2008 for being a part of Iraqi Jihadi group. He served a three-year jail term. Yet he could join other jihadists to merrily raid his target protected by the police. Here the situation is no better. We just don’t have enough policemen to protect all the potential targets or terrorists before the balloon goes up. Police must network with civilians to get them to pass on any acts of suspicion. Whither the days of the paan chewing beat policemen who used to chit-chat with us and get all the information? Can the police sort out their rather primitive public communication to make it more regular, innovative and appealing to the people?


5. Providing security: It appears to be a standard operative procedure that all ministers and netajis should have a posse of gun toting khaki clad “body guards” around them even if some of them are out on bail in criminal cases. The poor editor, killed in the Paris massacre, had a police body guard. It did not help either the editor or the policeman. Both were shot. Let us bust the myth of gun toting paunchy guys providing protection. We need to prune our security lists and tighten protection for real targets and not for cha-chas, bathijas and damaads (lest I forget). Then only the guards can be trained to develop their skills rather than a paunch.


Colonel R Hariharan
 
Appreciate the indomitable courage, grit and perseverance of the French magazine Charlie Hebdo for raising its head in the face of the terror attack!


[h=1]Charlie Hebdo will come out next week, despite bloodbath[/h]AFP | Jan 8, 2015, PARIS: The French satirical newspaper whose staff was decimated in an Islamist attack will come out as scheduled next week, one of its surviving staffers told AFP on Thursday.

Charlie Hebdo will publish next Wednesday to defiantly show that "stupidity will not win," said columnist Patrick Pelloux, adding that the remaining staff will soon meet.

"It's very hard. We are all suffering, with grief, with fear, but we will do it anyway because stupidity will not win," he said.

He added that the publication would have to be put together outside Charlie Hebdo's headquarters which were not accessible following the massacre.

Twelve people, including five cartoonists, were killed in Wednesday's attack that also left two policemen dead.


Charlie Hebdo will come out next week, despite bloodbath - The Times of India
 
Shocked by the insensitive outburst by a M politician! Will lead to more support to terrorist activities! We should nip it in the bud!
[h=1]Charlie Hebdo tragedy: Former UP minister offers Rs 51 crores to attackers[/h]
Charlie Hebdo tragedy: Former UP minister offers Rs 51 crores to attackers
Lucknow: The whole world is in complete shock after the terrorist attack that struck Paris on Wednesday, but this former minister from Lucknow Haji Yakub Qureshi, stirred a controversy by saying that he will reward the attackers by giving them Rs 51 cores.

According to reports published in a Hindi newspaper, Yakub said, "I will reward the attackers who killed Charlie Hebdo Editor, cartoonist of the infamous Prophet poster, with Rs 51 crores."

Yakub Qureshi contested from Lucknow in 2014 Lok Sabha polls. Yakub is known for making controversial statements.

In 2006 also he announced a reward of Rs 51 crore for killing of the Danish cartoonist who caricatured Prophet Mohammad.

Cartoonist Cabu, who was behind the original Prophet cartoons, was among the 4 dead in Charlie Hebdo Paris attack.

The attack was strictly condemned by the world leaders and UN Security Council.

Charlie Hebdo tragedy: Former UP minister offers Rs 51 crores to attackers | News Nation
 
Reprisal attacks on Mosques in France

[h=1]Grenades thrown at a mosque in Le Mans, west of Paris - reports[/h] Published time: January 08, 2015

Several training grenades were thrown into the courtyard of a mosque in the French city of Le Mans. One of the grenades exploded, but no injuries were reported.


Four training grenades were thrown onto the property overnight Thursday, the local French daily Ouest-France reports.Three of the unexploded grenades were discovered by police. Police have cordoned off the mosque and so far no arrests have been made.



A gunshot was also reported overnight, with the bullet hitting the mosque.


French police have noted several attacks against mosques since Wednesday, when gunmen opened fire on the Paris office of the French satirical weekly Charlie Hebdo.


On Thursday morning, an explosion was reported in a kebab shop near a mosque in Villefranche-sur-Saone, eastern France. There are no reports of any injuries and the cause of the blast remains unknown.


The mayor of Villefranche, Perrut Bernard, said he was afraid the blast was linked “to the dramatic event that occurred on Wednesday."


Local authorities have told AFP the incident is being investigated.


An assailant also opened fire near a Muslim prayer room in the Port-la-Nouvelle district near Narbonne in southern France on Wednesday night. The door to the room was damaged and a window was broken, but no injuries were reported in the attack.

The local prosecutor told AFP the room was empty at the time of the attack.


An investigation into the incident is currently underway.



Tensions are running high following the dramatic assault on Wednesday, which left 10 journalists and 2 police officers dead. French authorities have introduced the highest state of alert in the country. According to French Prime Minister Manuel Valls, extra security forces have been deployed to secure mosques, synagogues, department stores, shopping centers, train stations and airports.


The French PM added that an extra 650 soldiers and 2,000 more police officers will patrol the streets of Paris on Thursday.

Grenades thrown at a mosque in Le Mans, west of Paris - reports ? RT News
 
Terrorists take hostage 'and kill two people' as police surround 'war zone' industria

[h=2]Terrorists take hostage 'and kill two people' as police surround 'war zone' industrial complex - latest updates[/h]

Suspects 'take hostage in industrial complex NE of Paris'
• Reportedly tell negotiatiors: 'We want to die as martyrs'
• Inside Charlie Hebdo attack: 'We all thought it was a joke'
• Al-Qaeda plotting attack on Britain
• Gunmen take hostage as police close in, in pictures
• Said and Cherif Kouachi: the two brothers


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Paris Charlie Hebdo attack: live - Telegraph
 
The horrific terrorist attack in Paris at the office of the French magazine Charlie Hebdo is a direct assault on the freedom of speech, thought and expression, the fundamentals on which all open, democratic societies are built. Ten staff members at the satirical weekly, including four of its top cartoonists, were gunned down by masked men who entered the building and targeted the editorial meeting in what seemed to be a well-planned and professional operation. They left shouting Allahu-Akbar, killing two policemen on the street outside before driving off in a getaway car. Since 2006, when it first published the Danish cartoons of Prophet Mohammed, Charlie Hebdo had been under threat of violent attacks by Islamist groups. Refusing to be intimidated, the publication continued to caricature Islam even after a firebombing in November 2011, just as it also relentlessly lampooned Christianity and Judaism — its Christmas week cover caricaturing the birth of Jesus was designed to provoke and cause offence. Self-censorship in order not to hurt religious sensibilities is now the norm in most parts of the world, so too in India, where media and expressions of popular culture including cinema, art and writing have to walk the tightrope daily in deference to what Salman Rushdie in an interview to this newspaper described as the non-existent “right to not be offended”: the fracas caused by Hindutva groups against the film PK is the most recent example of this. In truly democratic societies, this should not be the case, and that is what Charlie Hebdo believed and practised. Irrespective of what anyone thinks of its editorial policy, all who believe in freedom of expression and the democratic way of life must express solidarity with the magazine, and condemn this unspeakable act of violence against them.Attacking democratic freedoms is part of a larger agenda. Whether it is al-Qaeda, IS or any other group, extremist ideology thrives best in a polarised society. If the sizeable numbers of people adhering to the Muslim faith have been able to resist Islamism, it is because French republicanism has been able to surmount even the most divisive controversies, such as the ban on wearing the hijab and niqab in public and the Islamophobic discourse by the French right-wing parties that surrounded it. While the inevitable security measures will have to be taken, it would be most unfortunate if the attack on Charlie Hebdo were to give rise to a backlash against French Muslims. That would result in precisely what Islamist groups want — an alienated Muslim population that would become a recruiting ground for their violent cause. Maintaining freedoms and equality before the law in the face of a severe challenge to security is the most difficult test for any democratic polity and society.
 
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