Possible Terrorist Attacks in Paris

[Britkid]

At least 18 dead, maybe 26 with possibly 60 hostages too.

Paris shootings and explosions near Stade de France kill 18 - BBC News

[El Kabong]

Awful I love France, I hate that this has happened, I hope they catch who did it and I can only guess it was Muslim extremists just because the last time it happened it was them.

[Britkid]

It is a bit confusing, the restaurant where most of the dead are is being reported as an 'Asian' restaurant.

A couple of explosions have occurred at Stade de France (where the French were playing the Germans at Football) with one reported death.

Also 60 people have allegedly been taken hostage at a Concert in the French Capital.

[Britkid]

The Police say at least eleven have been killed at the restaurant; 35 now dead at the Theatre where the concert was, with the hostage situation 'ongoing' there too, with maybe as many as a Hundred hostages.

[brocktonblockbust]

Any attempt at weeding out the scoundrels will be seen as racial profiling. How can any saying first world civilized police taskforce go about weeding these bastards out without at least a modicum of racial profiling are these questioning that specific community for leads and tips and hints and clues

[Gandalf]

Sad, but predictable. Nation bombs other nation and a few years later gets some blowback. I think we have seen this story before. I guess they will just bomb some more in revenge rather than hand over the original war criminals.

[Dia bando]

Dreadful again the people who are responsible I hope are quickly caught.
Seems it was carnage , I hope they can
round up all those involved.

[superheavyrhun]

I was at the Wales v Netherlands game last night, and we were coming out of there talking about our plans for heading over to France next year, and we get in the car to hear this. I can't believe what sort of perverted human ideas would suggest this kind of thing might make you a martyr.

BBC reporting that between all the attacks it is over 110 people killed. Lots of hashtags and images going around the internet at the moment.

[Master]

128 dead and rising. 100 in critical condition.

[Fenster]

How could they pull this off so soon after the Charlie Hebdo slaughter? (Just in case, I'm not implying a conspiracy)

I find the "pray for you" mob a bit annoying. These savage nutters justify their actions because of superstitious nonsense. Madness.

[Gandalf]

Paul Craig Roberts has already suggested a possible false flag. Assad is bouncing back in Syria and the crazies will resort to anything to get what they want regarding their long delayed Syrian war. I may be cynical, but let's see where it takes us. It will be used cynically, you can be sure about that.

[El Kabong]

This shows that you just can't try to placate these extremists. Surely these kinds of attacks will cause for a stoppage of importing refugees and start some nationalistic fervor in not just France but all of Europe.

[Gandalf]

If it closes the borders, then that would be an unusual positive. But if they bomb Syria and close the borders. Well, that would be despicable.

[TitoFan]

What can be done?

Obviously it's necessary and customary to have the usual harsh rhetoric from the world leaders (Obama, Cameron, Hollande, etc). But what actions can and should be taken at this point? I think each nation should strengthen its intelligence community. Pour as much money as is feasible into it. We're at a point where no excuses are good enough not to do this. It's the only way to combat terrorism.

[Gandalf]

But those leaders are hypocrites considering that they have gone to sovereign nations and bombed the shit out of innocent people. It is blowback, it was to be expected. That's if it wasn't a false flag as many people seem to think it was. The words of Obama (drone man), Cameron (Libya liberator), and Hollande (playboy bomber) are a fricking joke.

Nobody will ever get serious and say stick Blair in the Hague and apologise to the people of Iraq for starting all this. Instead Europe and the US are on their march and they seem intent on creating their narrative which a propaganda state can largely sustain. It does suck for the people who get thrown under a bus for political reasons, but that's how these guys think. I honestly think this all ends up about Assad with some careful spinning (He just has to go, you know). This time Russia isn't backing down and they are not short of allies this time.