No, The Saker is not Charlie, he’s worse than Charlie. The Saker is Charlie if Charlie took its act to Yemen and set up shop there, or Iraq, or Iran, or Saudi Arabia or the UAE or any other Muslim country. Charlie is not The Saker because Charlie isn’t stupid enough to piss off Muslims in their own home as The Saker does with Americans in America.

Posted by: Cold N. Holefield | Jan 8 2015 20:20 utc | 3

Cold’n is definitely a right proper Charlie too

Posted by: Rogan Josh | Jan 8 2015 20:37 utc | 5

@6 – I read that as well, and not to sound whatever, but those were among my thoughts as this event unfolded. Lots of typical “hot button” talking points, some of which mimic the recent ridiculousness surrounding that pathetic “comedy” from Sony & the alleged hack by DPRK.
Interesting to note the parallels between 2 events, but please do not misunderstand me. I am, in no way, minimizing the horror of those murdered men in Paris. Clearly quite different from not being able to watch a shitty movie. Very sorry for their families. Most unfortunate. 9/11 a la Paris anyone??

Posted by: RUKidding | Jan 8 2015 20:52 utc | 7

Posted by: Rogan Josh | Jan 8, 2015 3:45:23 PM | 6
Since we’re throwing spaghetti at the conspiracy wall of fame, I think it was the Russians. Putin loves Marinara Le Play Pen and would like nothing more than to see her in power. Plus, the body language of the shooters looks decidedly Russian to me. More specifically, Caucasus. Chechens. The French police and intelligence services will pin it on some poor, stupid dopes they’ve been cultivating as patsies for a cover story when they know they can’t go after who really did it. America did it is as much a canard as any of your other canards.

Posted by: Cold N. Holefield | Jan 8 2015 21:32 utc | 9

Posted by: Cold N. Holefield | Jan 8, 2015 3:20:36 PM | 3
i am not Cole N Holeinthehead!

Posted by: brian | Jan 8 2015 21:36 utc | 11

Why WOULDN’T the CIA et al in Syria, Jordan, etc send recent ‘warriors’ on a Charlie Hebdo style mission? It’s all hardly precedent-setting behavior for US imperialism and spookery. Mike Morrell was practically salivating with nostalgia when he was called on to analyze yesterday’s attack on CBS.
I’ll go as far as to say a person who believes that the CIA and western interests are indeed training and funding a type of mercenarism in Syria – which they have now admitted – but can’t believe that these same mercenaries would be sent on ‘international’ missions by their benefactors, is utterly naive.
I’m so over the whole thing. Je suis Charlie épuisée.

Posted by: L Bean | Jan 8 2015 22:32 utc | 13

Although to be fair the US would be fair game to anybody in the world, because it exercises power over everybody in the world.
Wow, that’s a lot of credit you’re affording a bunch of incompetent morons who’ve stumbled their way into being Masters of the Universe. What I mean by that is not two threads ago, it was a group consensus that America is nothing more than an incompetent, bumbling fool, and yet you tell me this. Which is it? Youse peeps need to make up your minds and quit being so neurotic.

Posted by: Cold N. Holefield | Jan 9 2015 0:03 utc | 15

Cold…… You sure say a lot for someone with nothing to say!

Posted by: ..james | Jan 9 2015 0:11 utc | 17

http://www.atimes.com/atimes/World/WOR-01-080115.html

Predictably, Islamofascism peddlers are already having a field day/week/month/year. For simpletons/trolls/hordes exhibiting an IQ worthy of sub-zoology, when in doubt, demonize Islam. It’s so convenient to forget that untold millions from Pakistan’s tribal areas to street markets across Iraq continue to feel pain devastating their hearts and lives as they are expendable victims of the jihadi mindset – or “Kalashnikov culture”, as it is known in Pakistan – profiting the “West”, directly or indirectly, for decades now. Think ritual droning of Pakistani, Yemeni, Syrian, Iraqi or Libyan civilians. Think Sadr City witnessing carnages over 10 times worse than Paris.

Cui bono, then, with killing Charlie? Only those whose agenda is to demonize Islam. Not even a bunch of brainwashed fanatics would pull off the Charlie carnage to show people who accuse them of being barbarians that they are, in fact, barbarians. French intel at least has concluded that this is no underwear bomber stunt. This is a pro job. That happens to take place just a few days after France recognizes Palestinian statehood. And just a few days after General Hollande demanded the lifting of sanctions against the Russian “threat”.

Posted by: neretva’43 | Jan 9 2015 0:35 utc | 19

@ 17
You consider that a lot? What has the competency with which power is exerted have to do with its being felt?
I do agree he is funny.

Posted by: ee | Jan 9 2015 0:51 utc | 21

I highly recommend taking 40 minutes out of your life this weekend, to watch this: Sen. Feinstein Accuses CIA of Searching Congressional Computers
The Panetta briefing. Would make for a good folk band name…

Posted by: Uncle $cam | Jan 9 2015 1:18 utc | 23

Speaking of humor, I have a very apropos suggestion. I’ve not been on this site in a while, which I suddenly regret. Not only quite droll, it is spot on about theology as well, and as you will see, quite ecumenical. I give you the further adventures of “Jesus and Mo'”. Please note today’s posting “Nous Sommes…” especially, either at their main page here or image itself “here. Be sure to sample the Random Comic button in the upper left.
Lager for me, please, Barmaid.

Posted by: rufus magister | Jan 9 2015 2:08 utc | 25

@23 Thanks, Unlce $cam. Listened to it. The CIA never quits their games. And I don’t suppose they ever will until they get worse than a tongue-lashing from the Congress.
I had mixed feelings though – not that she’s not right. And the CIA is most certainly wrong. But this is, after all, someone who does a lot to enable the National Security State. Then, after granting them huge powers, she wonders why they act like they can take even more?
I’m not sure what crime the CIA would have to commit to make these people understand that this is an organization with ZERO respect for the law. Yet she keeps talking about the CIA as if she simply cannot believe the CIA doesn’t live up to its word and its agreements. She’s talking about not getting letters back from the CIA. She “asks for an apology”. It’s not that she isn’t right, she is absolutely right – but its sad. I mean, its like watching a baby get tricked or something. And by the middle, she’s answering their charges.
She makes good points and she’s right on all of them. This is a constitutional crisis – the problem is, that waiting until these organizations have turned on you is the worst time to call them to account. After doing their work for them for many years – she helped them limit FISA, she’s been a big supporter of the PATRIOT ACT, she does their work by being a vocal critic of Assange – then you act shocked when they overstep their bounds? It’s just… disappointing. No wonder no one has any faith in the Congress.
And this, we have to presume, is the worst that will happen to them. The CIA honchos will snicker through this short speech on the floor of the Senate and then… that’s it. Back to monkey business.

Posted by: guest77 | Jan 9 2015 2:27 utc | 27

Conspiracy theories….communists,lol….now incompetence theories…the language says it all….

Posted by: ..james | Jan 9 2015 2:36 utc | 29

@ 3: Actually, the only thing that pisses off Americans (USA), is their flat screens losing signal in the middle of the NFL playoffs.

Posted by: ben | Jan 9 2015 2:40 utc | 31

One could be forgiven for assuming that (multi-tasking) Cold imagines herself as a sort of Girl Who Kicked The Hornet’s Nest.
From the inside.
Anonymously…

Posted by: Hoarsewhisperer | Jan 9 2015 3:33 utc | 33

Billmon tweets:
I don’t believe I’ve personally ever encountered so many “free speech” militants who object so vociferously to exercising free speech.

Posted by: samo samo | Jan 9 2015 4:49 utc | 35

TYT video misreporting critical issue
I do hope a we can start a public dialog about this because it is wrong for a media outlet which claims to be liberal and progressive to spread lies against victims of brutality and oppression. See this video called Young Turks, Please Correct Your Israel Reporting

Posted by: Tom Murphy | Jan 9 2015 4:59 utc | 37

Don’t know if there is any gumption left hereabouts to sort through the Bush-era torture horror show. Did see a mid-December MOA post from which I pulled the poll links shared in the following (nod to B and Jackrabbit @ 13 on that thread).
Anyway, submitted five questions to Ray McGovern on his YouTube page tonight, in the comments on his latest post there. No reply yet! For your perusal:
[Housekeeping note: Used to post here as manonfyre. Have been away for some time. MOA barflies helped to to keep my sanity stitched together through the Bush/Cheney years. Thanks for that. Good to be back! Seeing some ol’ familar names. Cheers!]
Mr. McGovern! Thank you for your service and your tenacious advocacy! I don’t know (I guess we’ll find out) if you respond to questions here, but I have five related questions for you on this subject.
Recall the false confessions of Rafid Ahmed Alwan al-Janabi (aka: “Curveball”) obtained by torture, and subsequently read out as writ by Colin Powell at the UN Security Council meeting just before the advent of U.S. hostilities against Iraq, of non-existent Iraq/Al-qai’da links and Iraqi WMD programs.[1] This was exactly the stuff Cheney & Company needed, along with the yellowcake forgeries, the anthrax hysteria, and all the rest, to conjure up a patina of justification for their planned-before-9/11, aching-for-any-excuse war of aggression against Iraq.
John Landay at McClatchy and Col. Lawrence Wilkerson (former Chief of Staff to then Secretary of State Colin Powell) among others have reported that the Cheney/Rumsfeld tag team wanted more of this.[2] Yes, Cheney & Company wanted CIA, military, and “contracted” interrogators to learn more about Al-qai’da’s structure, membership, and operations; and to uncover and thwart any outstanding plots that threatened the United States or its interests. But, much of the “furious” pressure to resort to torture (acc. to Wilkerson) was aimed at obtaining more false confessions like those extracted from Curveball. “Its [the torture program’s] principal priority for intelligence was not aimed at pre-empting another terrorist attack on the U.S. but discovering a smoking gun linking Iraq and al-Qa’ida.” (~ Wilkerson) They were desperate to “backfill” one of the false premises of the war — of “close ties” between Iraq and Al-qai’da — and were willing to “torture some folks” (~ Obama) in order to obtain that kind of testimony.
First: In your opinion, was this war with Iraq a war of aggression — “the supreme international crime” (acc. Robert H. Jackson, chief U.S. prosecutor at Nuremberg)?
Second: Do you have additional insight or an opinion as to the veracity of these “false confession” allegations? Did high officials of the United States government institute a program of torture, in part, to obtain false confessions?
Also, there has been extensive reporting (by Scott Horton, Jon Sifton, Glenn Greenwald, et al) about how “dozens” of captive prisoners in U.S. custody were tortured to death in this period.[3] The ACLU has published facsimiles of “official” DOD death certificates that list as “homicide” the manner of death of a number of detainees who died while in U.S. custody. {My link to this info is old and broken, but this info is out there. The Wikipedia page regarding “Dilawar (torture victim)” — made famous in Alex Gibney’s Oscar-winning documentary, “Taxi to the Dark Side” — does have a link to one of these reports.[4]}.
Third: Have you also concluded that, well beyond “mere” waterboarding, “dozens” of captive prisoners were tortured to death during this episode?
There is also reporting in a Amazon/Disney, er, Washington Post/ABC “News” poll that a “majority of Americans think torture was justified after [the] 9/11 attacks.”[5] However, a deeper examanition of the issue suggests that:
“The [US] public has seldom been supportive of torture, even when presented with ‘ticking time bomb’ scenarios where the intelligence is described as vital to stopping an impending terrorist attack. When asked about actual torture practices such as waterboarding or sexual humiliation, public support mostly collapses.”[6]
Fourth: Do you think that a “majority of Americans” simply do not know enough about how entensive and brutal this torture program was? And if more was broadly known, do you think there’d be a greater clamor for prosecutions?
Perhaps indiscrimnate blood-lust was and remains the political will of the U.S. public after 9/11, and Cheney & Company delivered.
Fifth and finally: Any “inside” skinny that you can share, beyond what we’re hearing, about the “Queen of torture,” Alfreda Frances Bikowsky?
Thank you!!
___________________
“I want to be absolutely clear with our people and the world: The United States does not torture. It’s against our laws, and it’s against our values. I have not authorized it, and I will not authorize it.”
~ George W. Bush, 2006
“Chuck, to even try to draw a parallel between the Japanese who were prosecuted for war crimes after World War II and what we did with waterboarding three individuals — all of whom are guilty and participated in the 9/11 attacks.”
~ Richard Bruce Cheney, on Meet the Press, Dec. 14, 2014, aping what many Bush administration officials have said for years, that the U.S. “only” waterboarded three terror suspects
“When it comes to the Bush administration, whatever the subject may be and however bad you think things are, they’re going to be at least several fallback positions worse than whatever top administration officials may be fessing up to at any given moment. This, after all, is the administration of adamant denials, followed by forceful non-confessions, followed by proud statements, followed by limited hang-outs, followed by even more grudging, only slightly less limited hang-outs.”
~ Tom Englehardt, March 16, 2006, regarding the rolling revelations of the NSA’s warrantless surveilance program, and so much else
“Nothing predicts future behavior as much as past impunity.”
~ Darius Rejali, a professor of political science at Reed College and an expert on torture regimes
__________________
1. http://www.theguardian.com/world/2011/feb/16/colin-powell-cia-curveball
2. http://www.democrats.com/lawrence-wilkerson-drops-an-iraq-torture-bombshell
3. http://harpers.org/blog/2009/05/the-bush-era-torture-homicides/
4. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dilawar_(torture_victim)#cite_note-DilawarAutopsy-4
5. http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/new-poll-finds-majority-of-americans-believe-torture-justified-after-911-attacks/2014/12/16/f6ee1208-847c-11e4-9534-f79a23c40e6c_story.html
6. http://theconversation.com/americans-are-deeply-divided-about-torture-35350

Posted by: Robert Lyons | Jan 9 2015 6:09 utc | 39

For anyone interested, I have transcribed and posted The Company and the Country, Part II, the second half of Frank Morrow’s interview with Phil Agee from November, 1995.

Posted by: jfl | Jan 9 2015 8:15 utc | 41

@39Mrw…ditto…that was neretva @19. There was even a good line in that for describing the cold one.

Posted by: ..james | Jan 9 2015 10:33 utc | 43

Actually, the only thing that pisses off Americans (USA), is their flat screens losing signal in the middle of the NFL playoffs.
So true. Also, a disruption in the supply of high fructose corn syrup — the wonder drug that’s virtually free. This is the answer to radical Islam, actually, and it is what will ultimately pacify the Middle East and all Muslims everywhere. A combination of copious amounts of high fructose corn syrup in all its manifest forms and perpetual, uninterrupted NFL playoffs all year round. Of course, a few teams will have to be added for the saker of inclusivity. I have an idea for a couple of names, but feel free to add to the mix. The Jihadis and The Prophets are a good start. Jihad could even be a famous soft drink like Koch. Have a Jihad and a Smile would be a great slogan. And all of the aforementioned can be accomplished without malice or violence. What’s not to like? When can we get started? Who’s game? If the two Paris shooters are a legitimate example, they’re easily indoctrinated into Western culture as witnessed by their fondness for Rap music. You have to appreciate and love the contradictions of the liberal media narrative. They speak of these idiotic cretins as being fans of Rap music, which we all know is permeated with explicit violent overtones, and don’t make the connection between it and the alleged violence exhibited by these suspects. No, their alleged propensity for violence can only be ascribed to radical elements within Islam versus radical and violent elements within a spreading American Black subculture.
Meet France’s Toughest Rappers

Posted by: Cold N. Holefield | Jan 9 2015 11:38 utc | 45

Charlie Hebdo police officer shooting zoomed in – cop head-shot in slow mo – no blood
2nd video

Posted by: Rogan Josh | Jan 9 2015 12:10 utc | 47

The troll conflates rap music as “western” – which is symptomatic of its ongoing delusions on knowledge. Rap music is one of the chosen forms of expression of urban ghetto blacks used to express anger at their societal repression, now popularized by the usual middle class teenager desire to make their parents’ angry.
Yet somehow this form of music intended as expression against “western” societal values is somehow emblematic of the West?
Yet another amusingly ham-handed grope at intellectual respectability – one which, as others, fails miserably.

Posted by: c1ue | Jan 9 2015 13:56 utc | 49

Posted by: Rogan Josh | Jan 9, 2015 7:10:04 AM | 46
Interesting. It looks to be a complete miss. Notice the concrete dust that’s kicked up from the sidewalk where the bullet hit. It hit left of the police officer from the shooter’s vantage. Wow. And did you know that the outfit that filmed this just so happened to have recently set up shop next to Hebdo and it was the very same outfit that, or the producer is the very same person who, ran a piece in 2005 about radicalizing French youth and the Kouachi brothers were front and center in that documentary? Somedays, I believe this really is The Matrix. As this tragedy unfolded, those who choose what we see on television decided to play The Brothers Karamazov when IRL we get The Brothers Kouachi playing in the news approximately two years after we got The Brothers Tsarnaev. If this is The Matrix, it has a wicked sense of humor — one that makes Charlie look like a satirical imposter.

Posted by: Cold N. Holefield | Jan 9 2015 14:13 utc | 51

Posted by: Rogan Josh | Jan 9, 2015 9:12:07 AM | 49
Excellent post. Spot on.
Let’s juxtapose the messages of the following two offerings as an example. Which one’s the more positive, empowering and uplifting message?
Let’s Stay Together
One Big Incoherent Hostile Violent F Bomb

Posted by: Cold N. Holefield | Jan 9 2015 14:30 utc | 53

No comment!
TERRORIST in France!!! .. Freedom Fighters in Syria!!!!!
http://friendsofsyria.co/

Posted by: Rd. | Jan 9 2015 14:48 utc | 55

If this was an inside job, as snakearbusto indicated on the previous thread and I did as well earlier in that thread, Charlie pissed off a lot of people, most especially the French establishment to include the hard Right. If it was an inside job, the hard Right has a long memory in the long game and chose this time to strike while its iron is hot for maximum leverage. As such, it would have nothing to do with America since as we all know, America is about what Charlie Hebdo is about, or at least it is on paper some of the time. It’s more likely that if this operation was a joint effort by two or more countries, France’s hard Right was working hand & glove with Russia to bring this about. Russia would have the most to gain from aiding France’s hard Right in this endeavor.

Posted by: Cold N. Holefield | Jan 9 2015 14:56 utc | 57

Case in point. I’m sure she and the thugs she surrounds herself with were none to pleased with this. Zealots of any stripe don’t take kindly to any version of satire other than their own — the few of their ilk who are even capable of comprehending and/or crafting satire.
Charlie’s Take On Marinara Le Play Pen

Posted by: Cold N. Holefield | Jan 9 2015 15:28 utc | 59

Cannonfire’s latest: http://cannonfire.blogspot.ca/

Posted by: ben | Jan 9 2015 16:18 utc | 61

3 – Sourgrapes from an angry kook. You wish your silly blog had even 1/3 of the readers Saker has.

Posted by: farflungstar | Jan 9 2015 17:15 utc | 63

Lol now I read that there is a 3rd, yes 3rd hostage taking just beginning after the other finished ones. (RT.com)

Posted by: Anonymous | Jan 9 2015 17:38 utc | 65

Sad news from France24 …
LIVE : 4 dead in Paris grocery hostage crisis, including gunman
Shots were heard early in the afternoon, but no official statements were given, understandably so.

Posted by: Oui | Jan 9 2015 18:11 utc | 67

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/01/08/world/europe/charlie-hebdo-paris-shooting.html?_r=1
Michael J. Morell, a former deputy director of the C.I.A. and now a consultant to CBS News, said it was unclear whether the attackers had acted on their own or been directed by organized groups.
He called the motive of the attackers “absolutely clear: trying to shut down a media organization that lampooned the Prophet Muhammad.”
“So, no doubt in my mind that this is terrorism,” he said.
Mr. Morell added, “What we have to figure out here is the perpetrators and whether they were self-radicalized or whether they were individuals who fought in Syria and Iraq and came back, or whether they were actually directed by ISIS or Al Qaeda.”

Posted by: Rogan Josh | Jan 9 2015 18:33 utc | 69

Reese Erlich: “New Iraq war is doomed”
http://reeseerlich.com/2015/01/02/al-jazeera-america-new-iraq-war-is-doomed/
I see a different reason why the US ultimately will be forced to (dramatically) reduce (or eliminate) its military presence around the world. To see why one has to understand international money flows. I think somewhere in the future the US consumer will (dramatically) reduce its domestic spending. It will result in a (dramatic) reduction or elimination in the US current account deficit. And when the US current account deficit drops to zero then the foreigners are no longer funding those foreign military adventures. Then the US government will have foot the bill for those foreign military adventures for the full 100% (again). And then the US government WILL be FORCED to make some dramatic & deep (financial) cuts.
I am convinced that those dramatic cuts will lead to a military coup in the US.

Posted by: Willy2 | Jan 9 2015 18:36 utc | 71

See my diary for all the news about the Paris attack and the hostage crisis – Paris Attack: ‘Martyrs of Liberty’ ¶ HOSTAGE CRISIS ENDS.
AQAP and AQIM joined forces to attack US and targets in France

Posted by: Oui | Jan 9 2015 18:47 utc | 73

This website dates back in my memory to being an alternative to the corporate media during the Iraq war, and b has done a magnificent job with keeping it relevant to the ongoing ‘war of terror’. It’s gotten to the point now to where I can’t read the comments without scrolling through where Cold Handjob has shot his wad (numerous times). Sad.

Posted by: Jim T | Jan 9 2015 20:16 utc | 75

If Paris attack had occurred in Moscow, would the gunmen be hailed as “freedom fighters” by the West?

Posted by: Andoheb | Jan 9 2015 20:44 utc | 77

jfl @41
THANK YOU FOR THE TRANSCRIPTION!

Posted by: MRW | Jan 9 2015 21:23 utc | 79

Glenn Greenwald is in fine form.

But this week’s defense of free speech rights was so spirited that it gave rise to a brand new principle: to defend free speech, one not only defends the right to disseminate the speech, but embraces the content of the speech itself. Numerous writers thus demanded: to show “solidarity” with the murdered cartoonists, one should not merely condemn the attacks and defend the right of the cartoonists to publish, but should publish and even celebrate those cartoons. “The best response to Charlie Hebdo attack,” announced Slate’s editor Jacob Weisberg, “is to escalate blasphemous satire.”

The article then goes on to show several cartoons drawing attention to Jewish control over the United States, and asks whether journalists who “defended” free speech by celebrating the Charlie Hebdo islamophobic cartoons are willing to do the same when it comes to such cartoons about Israel and Jews.
The article also shows how the US has become truly post-Christian. (1) Several journalists say that the “blasphemy” of the islamophobic Charlie Heddo cartoons is good. But mocking Muhammad is only blasphemous if you are a Muslim. Blasphemy means the expression of irreverence to God, but no one could have been more irreverent to God than Muhammad, since Muhammad denied Christ’s divinity, and hence vehemently, obsessively rejected God. Christianity as the standard reference point for religious matters has completely disappeared. (2) To make his point that, when it comes to “satirical” “free speech” about religions, American journalists are only willing to celebrate expressions of Islamophobia, Greenwald chooses examples of the mocking of Zionism, not Christianity, to prove his point. This shows that Zionism has replaced Christianity as the primary religion of America.

Posted by: Demian | Jan 9 2015 22:33 utc | 81

Is there no end to horseshit?

Berlin (AFP) – Intelligence suggests that Syrian President Bashar al-Assad is building a secret underground plant with the aim of developing nuclear weapons, Germany’s Spiegel news magazine said Friday.
Citing information made available by unidentified intelligence sources, Spiegel said the plant was in an inaccessible mountain region in the west of the war-ravaged country, two kilometres (1.2 miles) from the Lebanese border.

So anybody who thought the False Flag attack on CH changes the imperial plan to overthrow the legitimate Syrian government and replace it with either a Takfiri regime or neverending NATO terrorist war, should now know better.

Posted by: Lysander | Jan 9 2015 23:39 utc | 83

The title refers to the ‘big fish’, but the article details the attacks on Argentina, Venezuala, and Greece as well … and of course they are demonstrated nakedly in Ukraine …
China and the Shadow Bankers

The Ukraine is yet another classical case of shadow bankers preying upon an economy in distress. In the wake of the Ukraine’s descent into economic depression in 2014, the IMF and western commercial bank and government (European Commission) policies have put heads of western shadow banks in direct and daily management control of Ukraine’s economy.
This past December, the CEO of the USA private equity firm, Horizon Capital, Natalia Jaresko, was appointed by Ukraine’s Poroshenko government as its official Finance Minister, while a western European, Aivaras Abramavicius, with close ties to Swedish and German shadow banks, was appointed as Economics Minister for the Ukraine.
Shadow banks in the case of Ukraine will now be able to dismantle and destabilize the Ukraine economy ‘from the inside’, instead of dictating its policies from the outside as has been traditionally the case of other economies.

Posted by: jfl | Jan 10 2015 0:05 utc | 85

77
‘The Agence France-Presse is reporting that Said and Cherif Kouachi, the brothers believed to be responsible for the attack on the offices of Charlie Hebdo on Wednesday, have been killed in a hail of bullets.’
Exactly as predicted two days ago. The Paris kosher deli is a Mossad? DISTRACTION ON TOP OF A DISTRACTION, marking #Je’suisCharlie permanently engraved on the Tablets of Muslim Atrocity, and filling up all the illegal settlement condos on the West Bank with French-Jew emigres.
Henry Kissinger a juste obtenu un ‘stiffy’, peut-être.

Posted by: ChipNikh | Jan 10 2015 0:19 utc | 87

@Anonymous #86:
I guess you didn’t bother to read the article. I guess you think so little of Muslims that you don’t think they have any agency.
A representative of AQAP quoted in that Intercept article makes an interesting point:

Was it a crime to kill Samir Khan for being a member of Inspire Team?
Was it a crime to kill Fuad Al-Hadhrami, the brother who accompanied journalists in S.Yemen?
Charlie Hebdo’s editor-in-chief Gerard Biard remarked he didn’t “understand how people can attack a newspaper with heavy weapons. A newspaper is not a weapon of war.” Isn’t Inspire a magazine? Are we to conclude that drones and missiles aren’t heavy weapons?

Definite case of blowback.

Posted by: Demian | Jan 10 2015 0:26 utc | 89

The wallets were left in one of the vehicles used in the terror spree. Haven’t we seen the same mo before? September? 2001?

Posted by: Alberto | Jan 10 2015 1:30 utc | 91

The wallets were left in one of the vehicles used in the terror spree. Haven’t we seen the same mo before? September? 2001?
Posted by: Alberto | Jan 9, 2015 8:30:07 PM | 91
Germaine Lindsey July 7th 2005
Germaine was apparently the wife of the “White Widow” of “Islamic terrorism” (even though her daddy was a Brit Army Sargent) Samantha Lewthwaite, currently alleged to have been killed by a russian sniper in Ukraine of all places, if you’re stupid enough to believe such nonsense
The 7/7 London Bombings and MI5′s “Stepford Four” Operation: How the 2005 London Bombings Turned every Muslim into a “Terror Suspect”

Police claimed that they then found the identity cards of three of the men, which they could connect to the various blasts:

• a Mohammad Sidique Khan at Edgware,
• a Shezad Tanweer at Aldgate, and
• Hasib Hussain, on the bus.
  Police claimed that all were “clean skins” or, unknown to the police. (Scotland Yard was embarrassed when Nicholas Sarkozy, then French Minister of the Interior, publicly reminded them that Khan and Tanweer had been known through their “Operation Crevice”.)
  After the announcement, police noted that Khan’s body was not to be found at the Edgware Road site where he was supposed to have died. (BBC, 7, 2005)
  Only his ID, which was subsequently found on the bus and, reportedly also at Aldgate.
  Tanweer’s ID, was not only found at Aldgate, but also on the bus, which exploded almost an hour after he was supposed to have died.
  Police did not bother with ID cards of others also found at the sites.

Posted by: Rogan Josh | Jan 10 2015 1:56 utc | 93

Germaine was apparently the wife
Husband . . . obviously . . .

Posted by: Rogan Josh | Jan 10 2015 2:21 utc | 95

Bill Donohue comments on the killing of 12 people at the Paris office of the newspaper Charlie Hebdo:
Killing in response to insult, no matter how gross, must be unequivocally condemned. That is why what happened in Paris cannot be tolerated. But neither should we tolerate the kind of intolerance that provoked this violent reaction.
Those who work at this newspaper have a long and disgusting record of going way beyond the mere lampooning of public figures, and this is especially true of their depictions of religious figures. For example, they have shown nuns masturbating and popes wearing condoms. They have also shown Muhammad in pornographic poses.
While some Muslims today object to any depiction of the Prophet, others do not. Moreover, visual representations of him are not proscribed by the Koran. What unites Muslims in their anger against Charlie Hebdo is the vulgar manner in which Muhammad has been portrayed. What they object to is being intentionally insulted over the course of many years. On this aspect, I am in total agreement with them.
Stephane Charbonnier, the paper’s publisher, was killed today in the slaughter. It is too bad that he didn’t understand the role he played in his tragic death. In 2012, when asked why he insults Muslims, he said, “Muhammad isn’t sacred to me.” Had he not been so narcissistic, he may still be alive. Muhammad isn’t sacred to me, either, but it would never occur to me to deliberately insult Muslims by trashing him.
Anti-Catholic artists in this country have provoked me to hold many demonstrations, but never have I counseled violence. This, however, does not empty the issue. Madison was right when he said, “Liberty may be endangered by the abuses of liberty as well as the abuses of power.”

Posted by: neretva43 | Jan 10 2015 3:20 utc | 97

Russian Spring
01/09/2015-20:26
Evening message of Information Center of Novorossia:
Firing at combatants’ positions continued through the day.
From a site of city Schast`e (Lugansk Republic) mortars struck positions near settlement Veselaya Gora (Merry Mount) – 13 km north of Lugansk.
A combatants’ outpost in area of Stanitsa-Luganskaya (Lugansk Republic) was shelled by artillery, then by mortars.
From direction of settlements Peski and Opitnoye, cannons, mortars, small arms fired at combatants defending frontiers in area of Donetsk airport. Also fire was directed at positions near mine Oktyabr`skaya (north-west outskirts of Donetsk).
A residential sector of district Kuybishevskiy of Donetsk also bore brunt of artillery fire.
In the aftermath of bombardment, two combatants reported wounded.

Posted by: Fete | Jan 10 2015 4:02 utc | 99