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Wednesday, November 18, 2015
PARIS ABLAZE BECAUSE OF TERRORISTS AND SUICIDE BOMBINGS.........
No Fear No Favour No Terrorists in out midst......
JOHANNESBURG 18 NOVEMBER 2015 10:30
Paris attacks: French military launches second wave of air strikes against Islamic State in Syria - as it happened
Saturday 14 November 2015
France is committed to "destroying" the so-called Islamic State group after Friday's deadly attacks, President Francois Hollande has said.
He said he would table a bill to extend the state of emergency declared after the attacks for three months and would suggest changes to the constitution.
France's military campaign against IS in Iraq and Syria will also intensify.
IS says it carried out the attacks on bars, restaurants, a concert hall and a stadium in which 129 people died.
Speaking during a joint session of both houses of parliament, Mr Hollande said the constitution needed to be amended as "we need an appropriate tool we can use without having to resort to the state of emergency".
Other measures he said would be pursued included:
5,000 extra police posts in the next two years and no new cuts in the defence budget
Making it easier to strip dual nationals of their French citizenship if they are convicted of a terrorist offence, as long as this did not render them stateless
Speeding up the deportation of foreigners who pose "a particularly grave threat to the security of the nation"
Pushing for greater European action against arms trafficking and greater penalties for it in France
Image copyrightAFPImage captionThe Eiffel Tower was lit in the colours of the French flag in a tribute to the victims
Mr Hollande said he would travel to meet US President Barack Obama and Russian President Vladimir Putin in the coming days to discuss action against the group.
US Secretary of State John Kerry arrived in Paris on Monday evening to show support for "America's oldest friend" against what he called "psychopathic monsters".
Media captionUS Secretary of State John Kerry: "Tonight we are all Parisians"
At a G20 summit in Turkey, world leaders promised tighter co-operation in the wake of the attacks.
Mr Obama said the US and France had made a new agreement on intelligence sharing but said US military advisers thought sending ground troops to combat Isis would be a mistake.
In his address, Mr Hollande reiterated his opposition to Syrian President Bashar al-Assad remaining in power but said "our enemy in Syria is Daesh [IS]".
He promised more resources for the security forces and said the Charles de Gaulle aircraft carrier would be sent on Thursday to bolster the military campaign against IS.
On Sunday night, French aircraft attacked Raqqa, IS's stronghold in Syria. French officials said 10 jets had dropped 20 guided bombs targeting sites including a command centre, a recruitment centre for jihadists, a munitions depot and a training camp.
IS has issued a statement saying the raid targeted empty locations and that there were no casualties.
Analysis: Hugh Schofield, BBC News, Paris
This was a solemn speech in which one felt the president genuinely striving - under the weight of appalling circumstance - to give service to the nation.
He knows that the people expect a riposte. He said it would come in two forms: military and judicial.
In Syria there will be intensified strikes, and new co-ordination with the US and Russia.
In France there will be a three-month extension of the state of emergency; more police and magistrates; possible powers to strip dual nationals of French citizenship.
There will also be a reform of the constitution - creating a new status short of all-out war in which exceptional powers can be handed to police.
But President Hollande is better at empathy than at talking tough. His opponents will give him slack because today no-one wants to expose dissent.
But are these measures really going to be enough? Or are they just more administrative knob-twiddling, when the people feel in deadly peril?
Media captionMariesha Payne was inside the Bataclan: "We ran to the back of the cellar and crammed ourselves in the smallest space"Image copyrightGetty ImagesImage captionThousand of extra police and troops have been deployed in Paris
Authorities say that one of the attackers was the same man who used a Syrian passport
in the name of Ahmad al-Mohammad and whose fingerprints match those taken by the Greek authorities after he arrived with migrants on the island of Leros in October.
One Greek official on the island told the BBC that the man had aroused suspicion when
he arrived and said that more highly trained intelligence officers might have been able to apprehend him.
The German anti-immigrant group Pegida held a rally of some 9,000 people in the city of Dresden, with the movement's leader telling the crowd the attacks were a result of "immigration policy".
As well as the attackers themselves, investigators are also reported to be focusing on a Belgian of Moroccan descent who is described as the possible mastermind of the attacks.
Abdelhamid Abaoud, 27, lived in the Molenbeek neighbourhood of Brussels, as did two
of the attackers, and is now believed to be based in Syria, where he has risen through the ranks of IS.
On Monday evening a police operation took place in the Neudorf area of the eastern
city of Strasbourg but was later reported to have been prompted by a false alarm.
In the early hours of Monday, a total of 23 people were arrested, 104 put under house arrest, and dozens of weapons seized in more than 168 raids on suspected Islamist militants across France.
Belgian police say two people arrested on Saturday were charged on Monday with "participating in a terrorist attack".
They were among seven people detained in Belgium at the weekend.
Five of them were later released, including Mohammed Abdeslam, the brother of two suspects - Brahim Abdeslam, killed during the attacks, and Salah Abdeslam, who
is on the run.
Suspected Paris attackers
Salah Abdeslam, 26 - urgently sought by police
Brahim Abdeslam, 31 - named as attacker who died near Bataclan concert
hall
Omar Ismail Mostefai, 29, from near Paris - died in attack on Bataclan
Bilal Hadfi, 20 - named as attacker who died at Stade de France
Ahmad al-Mohammad, 25, from Idlib, Syria - died at Stade de France
(unverified)
Samy Amimour, 28, from near Paris - suicide bomber at Bataclan
Two other attackers died during the assaults in the city
Mohammed Abdeslam emerged from his house to speak to the media on Monday and
said his family did not know where Salah was.
Stressing his innocence, he said the family's thoughts were "with the families of the
victims".
"We are moved by what happened, at no point we could have thought that my brothers
were involved in this but you must understand that we have a mother and he is still her
son," he said.
"We noticed absolutely nothing, my two brothers were just normal. We still don't know exactly what happened."
France held a nationwide minute of silence at midday local time (11:00 GMT) for the
victims, led by Mr Hollande at the Sorbonne University. The silence was also observed
in countries across the continent.
Stade de France, St Denis, just north of Paris - three attackers and a bystander killed
Are you in the area? Have you been affected by what has been happening? Do you have any information you can share? If it is safe to do so, you can get in touch by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.
Wednesday 18 november 2015
LIVE: Female suicide bomber detonates device in Paris raids
2015-11-18 07:44
Two suspected jihadists holed in an apartment north of Paris have died during a police siege,
including a woman who detonated an explosives vest, according to police sources.
LIVE NEWS FEED
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Last Updated at 10:02
09:55
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One or two suspects are still believed to be inside the apartment - Al Jazeera
09:51
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Soldiers have arrived at the scene of siege in Saint Denis suburb -
Al Jazeera
09:37
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What we know so far:
09:31
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Jazeera
09:29
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According to AP:
Police say two suspects in last week's Paris attacks — a man
and a woman — have
been killed
in a police operation north of the capital.
An official with the Paris police department who was not
authorised to be publicly
named said
two people have been detained, and two police officers
injured in the standoff on
Wednesday in Saint-Denis.
Police have said the operation is targeting the suspected
mastermind of last
week's attacks, believed to be holed up in an apartment in
Saint-Denis with several other
heavily armed suspects.
09:27
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Sky News says at least seven explosions were heard during
the police raid in
Saint-Denis.
09:21
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AFP reports:
Two suspected jihadists holed up in an apartment north of
Paris died during a police
siege on Wednesday, including a woman who detonated an
explosives vest,
according to police sources.
At least three police were injured in the operation
targeting Belgian jihadist
Abdelhamid
Abaaoud, believed to be the mastermind of the attacks in
Paris on Friday that
killed 129.
09:13
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Al Jazeera reports that key suspect Abdelhamid Abaaoud is
Belgian of Moroccan
origin
09:11
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09:09
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We are getting conflicting reports of what is happening in
Paris at the moment.
Please
bear with us, as the news keeps unfolding.
09:08
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Three people have died, including a woman wearing a suicide
belt, French media
reports
09:06
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French media reports that a passer-by has been killed,
according to Sky news
08:53
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According to AP:
Authorities in the Paris suburb of Saint-Denis have
evacuated about 20 residents
from a
building where suspects linked to the Paris attacks are
holed up in a standoff with
police.
A city official not authorised to be publicly named told The
Associated Press the
residents
were brought to city hall for protection.
City hall is about 200m from the apartment building where
the standoff is taking
place on
rue du Cornillon, in the heart of the historic,
multicultural town just north of Paris.
The site is less than 2 km from the Stade de France national
stadium. Three suicide
bombers blew themselves up on Friday near the stadium during
an international
soccer match with
French President Francois Hollande in attendance.
Saint-Denis is one of France's most historic places. French
kings were crowned
and buried through the centuries in its famed basilica.
Today it is home to a vibrant
and very ethnically diverse population and sees sporadic
tension between police
and violent youths.
08:45
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The latest - according to AP
At least seven explosions have been heard at the scene of a
police standoff with
suspects
in last week's deadly Paris attacks.
Associated Press reporters at the scene could hear what
sounded like grenade
blasts
from the direction of the standoff in the heart of the Paris
suburb of Saint-Denis.
The source of the blasts is unclear. Police say several
people are holed up in an
apartment
and several police have been injured in an operation that
has lasted at least three
hours on Wednesday morning.
08:35
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08:31
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AP reports:
A resident of the Paris suburb of Saint-Denis describes
intense gunfire and
explosions
during a police operation near the site of one of last
week's deadly attacks.
Baptiste Marie, a 26-year-old independent journalist who
lives near the scene of the
standoff,
tells The Associated Press: "It started with an
explosion.Then there was second big
explosion. Then two more explosions. There was an hour of
gunfire."
Resident Amin Guizani, 21, says: "There were grenades.
It was going, stopping.
Kalashnikovs. Starting again.
"Riot police were clearing the streets early Wednesday,
pointing guns at curious
residents to move them off the roads.Marie said the officers
seemed nervous."You
could see it in their eyes, " Marie said.
08:24
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So far - according to Al Jazeera
Two unidentified people have been killed
Two suspects have been detained
Three police officers have been injured
08:22
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08:20
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Deputy Mayor Stephane Peu told i-Tele television that there
have been many
gun
shots and detonations in the operation that began at 04:25 -
reports
08:12
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08:09
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Unconfirmed reports say that a number of several police
officers have been injured.
The extent of the injuries is not know - according to Sky
News
08:08
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What we know so far – according to reports:
Heavy shooting, including automatic gunfire, and explosions
have been reported in
St
Denis, a northern Paris suburb.
The police operation is linked to the search for the
so-called “ninth attacker” –
believed
to be on the run.Two or three men are reported to have
barricaded themselves in
an
apartment, exchanging gunfire with officers.
Roads have been closed off and the police operation appears
to be ongoing, with
large
numbers of police officers and police vehicles in the area.
Residents have been
told to stay in their homes and away from windows. Some
have
been moved to a temporary shelter in the town hall.
08:06
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Reports say at least one police officer has been injured in
the operation.
08:00
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07:58
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BBC reports that people in Saint Denis have been told to
stay at home, with
residents
from the area sealed off by police taken to a shelter.
07:51
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The Guardian reports that two or three men are said to have
barricaded
themselves in
an apartment and are exchanging gunfire with officers. Heavy
shooting and
explosions
have been reported in the St Denis suburb.
07:44
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Shooting broke out in northern Paris on Wednesday during a
dawn raid by police
hunting
those behind the attacks that claimed 129 lives in the
French capital five days ago,
sources
said.
Several police were wounded in the anti-terrorism raid, said
a source close to the
operation,
which began before dawn in the suburb of Saint Denis.
Police sources said several unidentified men were still
holed up in an apartment
as the
operation continued at 06:15 (0515 GMT).
The area is home to the Stade de France, one of several
places hit by gunmen
and suicide bombers on Friday in the worst ever attack on
French soil, which was
claimed by the Islamic
State jihadist group.
Firemen told AFP they they joined the operation against
"an armed group holed up
in an apartment" at 04:31, without giving any further
details, adding that one person was
lightly hurt.
The area was closed down and intermittent gunfire could
still be heard an hour after
it started. Another source said a special armed response unit
took part in the raid,
which comes as Europe was on high alert after footage from the
scene of one of Friday's
attacks revealed a ninth suspect may have taken part.
It was not clear if this ninth man was one of two suspected
accomplices detained in
Belgium or was on the run, potentially with 26-year-old
fugitive Frenchman Salah
Abdeslam who carried out one of the attacks at Bonne Biere
cafe along with his
suicide-bomber brother Brahim.
French President Francois Hollande on Wednesday will hold a
meeting to discuss
proposals to extend by three months the state of emergency
declared after the worst
attacks in French history. It will then be put to vote by
lawmakers Thursday and Friday.
In a sign of the nervousness gripping Europe after Friday's
carnage, a football match
between Germany and the Netherlands was cancelled Tuesday
and the crowd
evacuated after police acted on a "serious" bomb
threat.
As police stepped up the hunt for the fugitives, French and
Russian jets pounded
ISIS
targets in the group's Syrian stronghold of Raqa for a third
consecutive
day. -
AFP
COMMENTS BY SONNY
..........................AND
THE WORLD STOOD STILL!..........
WHO
ANTICIPATED THE FACT THAT WHEN PUTIN BOMBED ISIS
STRONGHOLDS
IN SYRIA THE ISIS
BRIGADE WOULD NOT HIT BACK?
HOW FAR IS
THE CIA AND BARRACK OBAMA INVOLVED IN THE
TRAINING AND
SUPPLYING OF ISIS TERRORISTS WITH FINANCIAL AID AND WEAPONS?
DO WE SEE THE
HAND OF "THE ILLUMINATI" IN THIS GLOBAL CONFLICT?
WHEN SOUTH
AFRICA WAS INVOLVED IN TERRORIST ATTACKS BETWEEN
1960 AND 1994
DID THE WORLD GIVE A SHIT?
SOUTH AFRICAN
TERRORISTS WERE LABELLED "FREEDOM
FIGHTERS?"
ARE THESE
ISIS FIGHTERS NOT JUST FREEDOM FIGHTERS LOOKING
FOR A PLACE
ON EARTH FOR THEIR IDEOLOGY TO SURVIVE?
WHO ARE THE
INFIDELS IN THIS CAUSE?
THIS WAS JUST
AN "EARLY WAKE UP CALL!"
CHRISTMAS IS
UPON US AND EUROPE HAS A LOT OF HEALING
TO DO!
NEXT THESE
TERRORIST WILL TAKE HOSTAGES AND AND USE THEM AS HUMAN
SACRIFICE WHEN THEY BLOW THEMSELVES UP AT THE SIGHT
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