In fünf Punkten verlangt HC Strache ein allgemeines Umdenken im Kampf gegen den islamistischen Terror.
Friday, November 20, 2015
Österreich: HC Strache fordert ein Umdenken im Kampf gegen radikalen Islamismus
In fünf Punkten verlangt HC Strache ein allgemeines Umdenken im Kampf gegen den islamistischen Terror.
Österreich: Strache will Dschihadisten auf Insel verbannen
Attentats de Paris : Bruxelles propose une agence européenne du renseignement
Le commissaire européen chargé des Affaires intérieures, Dimitris Avramopoulos, a proposé vendredi la création d'une agence européenne du renseignement après les attentats de Paris, mais il a reconnu, devant les réticences de certains États membres, qu'il s'agissait d'un « idéal ». Après les attentats de Charlie Hebdo, en janvier à Paris, Dimitris Avramopoulos avait proposé de créer un centre antiterroriste au sein d'Europol, qui doit commencer à fonctionner au 1er janvier 2016. « Mais je crois qu'il est temps de faire un pas supplémentaire en avant et de créer la base d'une agence européenne du renseignement », a plaidé Dimitris Avramopoulos, alors que les attentats ont mis en lumière des failles dans la coopération entre services secrets. » | Source AFP | vendredi 20 novembre 2015
Krieg in Syrien: Obama besteht auf Entmachtung Assads
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| Der amerikanische Präsident Obama sieht keine Lösung für Syrien, die Diktator Assad beinhaltet. |
Der amerikanische Präsident Barack Obama besteht auf einer Ablösung des syrischen Diktators Baschar al Assad. „Es reicht nicht, wenn wir einen politischen Prozess haben, der dazu führt, dass Assad an der Macht bleibt“, sagte Obama am Donnerstag in Manila. „Es ist undenkbar, dass man den Bürgerkrieg dort stoppt, wenn die überwältigende Mehrheit der Bevölkerung in ihm einen brutalen, mörderischen Diktator sieht.“ » | Christoph Ehrhardt, Beirut | Donnerstag, 19. November 2015
Saudi Court Sentences Poet to Death for Renouncing Islam
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| Ashraf Fayadh on YouTube. |
A Palestinian poet and leading member of Saudi Arabia’s nascent contemporary art scene has been sentenced to death for renouncing Islam.
A Saudi court on Tuesday ordered the execution of Ashraf Fayadh, who has curated art shows in Jeddah and at the Venice Biennale. The poet, who said he did not have legal representation, was given 30 days to appeal against the ruling.
Fayadh, 35, a key member of the British-Saudi art organization Edge of Arabia, was originally sentenced to four years in prison and 800 lashes by the general court in Abha, a city in the south-west of the ultraconservative kingdom, in May 2014.
But after his appeal was dismissed he was retried last month and a new panel of judges ruled that his repentance did not prevent his execution.
“I was really shocked but it was expected, though I didn’t do anything that deserves death,” Fayadh told the Guardian. » | David Batty | Friday, November 20, 2015
Germany Could Send Troops into Streets for First Time Since War
Germany could deploy armed soldiers on its streets for the first time since the Second World War, as Europe went into lockdown in the wake of the Paris attacks.
The German proposals would be highly controversial in a country that remains deeply reluctant to use its armed forces because of its Nazi past.
Ministers raised the idea after Tuesday night’s friendly football match between Germany and Holland in Hanover was cancelled minutes before kick-off following a tip-off from intelligence in another EU state.
According to German media, a group of attackers had planned to set off multiple explosives at the stadium, where Angela Merkel was due to attend the match, and to detonate a bomb in the city centre.
Wolfgang Schäuble, the finance minister, has publicly called for the military to be used in the event of coordinated terror attacks on a German city.
“If we had a situation like Paris, perhaps with attacks in three of four places, we’d have to think about whether our police capabilities are enough,” Mr Schäuble told the Rheinische Post newspaper. “What can we do to support security forces that are already overwhelmed on some normal weekends in the face of great challenges?” » | Justin Huggler in Berlin and Henry Samuel in Paris | Thursday, November 19, 2015
RHEINISCHE POST: Schäuble will Diskussion über Bundeswehr-Einsatz im Inneren » | Quelle: RP | Mittwoch, 18. November 2015
A Message for the Paris Attackers from Andrew Neil for BBC's This Week
Thursday, November 19, 2015
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FOX NEWS: German 87-year-old 'Nazi grandma' jailed for denying the Holocaust » | FoxNews.com | Friday, November 13, 2015
THE TIMES OF ISRAEL: German ‘Nazi grandma’ jailed for Holocaust denial: Ursula Haverbeck is a lost cause, says magistrate, sending her to prison for 10 months » | JTA and Times of Israel Staff | Monday, November 16, 2015
HAMBURGER MORGENPOST: Wegen TV-Interview: Holocaust-Leugnerin wieder vor Gericht: Gaskammern gab es nicht, in Auschwitz ist kein Mensch gestorben, die KZ-Leichenberge waren in Wahrheit Opfer der Bombenangriffe – mit kriminellen Verschwörungstheorien tingelt Holocaust-Leugnerin Ursula Haverbeck (87) seit dem Ende des Dritten Reiches durch den braunen Sumpf, gefeiert von Neonazis. » | Von Stephanie Lamprecht | Sonntag, 8. November 2015
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My Nazi Legacy – Clip from New Documentary
My Nazi Legacy premieres at the UK Jewish Film Festival on 19 November. It is released in select cinemas and on VOD from 20 November
Our fathers the Nazis: film explores the legacy of atrocities: Documentary takes sons of Nazis and professor whose relatives were killed back to the horror of occupied eastern Europe » | Owen Bowcott Legal affairs correspondent | Thursday, November 19, 2015
Paris Attacks: Isis 'Chemical Weapons' Warning Issued by French PM Manuel Valls
The Isis militant group could arm itself with biological and chemical weapons in future terror attacks on Europe, the French prime minister has warned.
Manuel Valls said France faced a serious threat from associates linked to the gunmen and bombers who launched attacks across Paris last Friday, killing 129.
"We must not rule anything out," he said. "I say it with all the precautions needed. But we know and bear in mind that there is also a risk of chemical or bacteriological weapons."
Mr Valls presented a bill to the French parliament that would extend the country's state of emergency for another three months. It will then go to the upper house on Friday. » | Adam Withnall | Thursday, November 19, 2015
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Terroralarm: Frankreich wappnet sich gegen Chemie-Anschläge
Die französische Regierung trifft Vorkehrungen zur Abwehr eines Terrorangriffs mit chemischen Kampfmitteln. Das geht aus einem Erlass des Gesundheitsministeriums hervor, der im offiziellen Gesetzblatt veröffentlicht wurde. Darin werde der Ankauf, die Lagerung, Verteilung und Verschreibung von Atropin-Sulfat in großem Umfang gefordert. Das berichtet die Zeitung "Le Figaro". Das eigentlich toxische Mittel wird nur vom Zentrallabor der Streitkräfte hergestellt. Es kann bei Kampfstoffangriffen - wie etwa mit Sarin-Gas - Betroffenen in hohen Dosen als Gegengift verabreicht werden. » | Von Stefan Simons, Paris | Donnerstag, 19. November 2015
How Stupid and Dangerous Is This? Paris Attacks: EU Chiefs Defy French Demands for Border Controls on Jihadist Fighters
The European Commission has indicated it will resist attempts by France to tighten EU border security, after it emerged that foreign fighters have as little as a one per cent chance of being caught when returning from overseas.
Dimitris Avramopoulos, the EU Commissioner for migration, insisted that no change is necessary to the current border code that says EU passport holders should be subject to the “minimum checks” when they enter Europe from the Middle East or elsewhere.
The Paris attacks and the apparent ease with which terrorists moved to and from Syria and then from Belgium into France with weapons in their cars, has raised serious questions about the viability of the Schengen system – questions dismissed by Mr Avramopoulos. » | Matthew Holehouse, in Brussels, and Peter Foster, Europe Editor | Wednesday, November 18, 2015
Wednesday, November 18, 2015
Donald Trump: I Used To Be A Fan Of Angela Merkel
Donald Trump focused on national security in a speech to a raucous crowd of nearly 10,000 people, days after the Paris Attacks sent shock waves around the world and rippled through the 2016 presidential race.
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Angst vor dem IS-Terror: Jetzt werden die Weihnachtsmärkte gesichert
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| Am Wochenende beginnt auch in Düsseldorf wieder der jährliche Weihnachtsmarkt. |
„Die Sicherheitsbehörden haben eine verantwortliche Entscheidung getroffen", sagte Bundeskanzlerin Angela Merkel gerade eben dazu, warum das Fußball-Länderspiel zwischen Deutschland schließlich doch nicht ausgetragen worden ist. Viele Deutsche dürften diese Entscheidung teilen. Denn überall dort, wo sich viele Menschen dicht an einem Ort versammeln, steigt in diesen Tagen - bewusst oder unbewusst - das Bedürfnis an Schutz und Sicherheit. » | Brigitte Koch, Düsseldorf | Mittwoch, 18. November 2015
War on Terror: ISIS Threatens the Whole WORLD and Needs to Be ANNIHILATED, Says Hollande
In a televised address today Francois Hollande said military operations in the Middle East would be intensified just days after it launched attacks on ISIS, also known as Daesh, destroying a number of targets.
He announced plans to form a coalition with USA and Russia “to carry out strikes on Dash because Daesh is guilty”.
The president added: “What’s at stake is annihilating an army that threatens the whole world and not just some countries.”
He told the nation “we are at war” and promised there would be increases recruitment for the both the judiciary and police forces. » | Rob Virtue | Wednesday, November 18, 2015
Vladimir Putin: From Pariah to Powerbroker in One Year
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| Vladimir Putin said on Tuesday that Russian combat operations against Isis would be intensified. |
What a difference a war makes. Twelve months ago, Vladimir Putin was on the menu at the G20 summit in Brisbane. Western leaders queued up hungrily for a piece of Russia’s president following his armed intervention in Ukraine and illegal annexation of Crimea.
Barack Obama warned Putin he was isolated internationally; David Cameron said he did not trust the Russian leader; Stephen Harper, Canada’s then prime minister, told Putin bluntly: “Get out of Ukraine.”
Reacting angrily to the imposition of sanctions, Putin said western leaders had switched off their brains and were making matters worse by punishing Moscow. But the criticism continued unabated and he left the meeting early in a huff.
Fast-forward to this week’s G20 summit in Turkey and everything, it seems, has changed. Putin was pictured in a friendly huddle, chatting animatedly to Obama and the US national security adviser Susan Rice. He also held reportedly productive talks with Cameron and other leaders. No longer ostracised and browbeaten, Putin was the man everybody wanted to meet.
The reason is not a mystery. Under merciless attack from Islamic State, flailing on the refugee crisis, and consequently desperate to end the war in Syria, European leaders, backed by Obama, have come to an uncomfortable but, in historical terms, not wholly novel conclusion: they need Russia. » | Simon Tisdall | Tuesday, November 17, 2015
Barack Obama Criticises Republicans Over Syrian Refugees
Anonymous 'Takes Down Thousands of Islamic State Twitter Accounts'
Marine Le Pen’s Anti-Islam Message Gains Influence in France
“France and the French are no longer safe,” Ms. Le Pen said in a speech the day after the attacks, demanding a crackdown on Islamists in the country.
Analysts said Ms. Le Pen’s already favorable prospects in regional elections in three weeks have most likely been given a lift, strengthening her position as a possible presidential candidate in 2017. She has also succeeded in pulling the political center of gravity in France to the right, forcing the main center-right party to adopt a stronger anti-immigration stance and taking positions in the wake of Friday’s attacks that were subsequently adopted by President François Hollande, a Socialist. » | Adam Nossiter | Tuesday, November 17, 2015
'We Are Monitoring Every Muslim' After Paris Attacks, Claims Slovakian PM
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| Mr Fico has said there are no mosques in Slovakia so Muslims 'would not fit in' |
The Slovakian Prime Minister has claimed his country is “monitoring every Muslim” in the wake of the attacks in the French capital on Friday.
Roberto Fico, 51, who is running for re-election in March, said recent events in France served to underline fears about accepting refugees and Muslim communities’ integration into European communities. » | Rose Troup Buchanan | Tuesday, November 17, 2015
Tuesday, November 17, 2015
Nach den Anschlägen in Paris: Frankreich rüstet gegen den Terror auf
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| Ein französischer Soldat überwacht die Warteschlange vor Notre-Dame in Paris. |
Das Staatstheater im Schloss von Versailles ging feierlich zu Ende. Stramm wie ein Soldat stand François Hollande hinter dem Rednerpult, als sich die mehr als 1000 Abgeordneten und Senatoren des französischen Kongresses zur Hymne erhoben: "Zu den Waffen, Brüder, formt eure Truppen", sangen Sozialisten wie Liberale und Republikaner, "Marchons, marchons!"
Der Präsident hatte am Montagabend eine staatstragende Rede gehalten, mit einem Schlusswort voller Pathos: "Der Terrorismus wird nicht die Republik vernichten - sondern es wird die Republik sein, die ihn vernichtet!" Aber Hollande bewies auch, dass er geblieben ist, was er immer war: ein flinker, clever abwägender Taktiker. Er präsentierte vor Frankreichs verfassungsgebender Versammlung Vorschläge, mit denen er seine Nation aufrüsten will. "Le tournant securitaire" nennen Élysée-Berater die politische Wende nach rechts, hin zu mehr Sicherheit und Härte. Der Sozialist griff sogar Vorschläge auf, die vor dem Horror des 13. November nur Republikaner oder Vertreter des rechtsextremen Front National (FN) äußerten. » | Von Christian Wernicke, Paris | Dienstag, 17. November 2015
Islamismus: Die salafistische Gefahr
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| Pierre Vogel, einer der bekanntesten salafistischen Prediger in Deutschland, im Sommer des vergangenen Jahres bei einer Kundgebung in Hamburg. |
Eine Botschaft war in Berlin unüberhörbar: Ein Molenbeek wie in der belgischen Hauptstadt Brüssel gibt es in Deutschland nicht. Einen Stadtteil also, in dem viele der in Frankreich oder Belgien aktiv gewordenen islamistischen Terroristen gelebt oder zu dem sie vor ihren Taten enge Verbindung hatten. Als dem Sprecher des Bundesinnenministeriums am Montag eine entsprechende Frage gestellt wurde, wollte er sich nicht einmal auf regionale Schwerpunkte oder eine „Prioritätenliste“ festlegen hinsichtlich der Brennpunkte islamistischer Aktivität in Deutschland. Man dürfe den Fokus nicht verengen, heißt es in Berlin. Die Sorge steckt dahinter, dass sonst später, wenn doch einmal etwas passiert sein sollte, der Vorwurf auftauchte, man habe sich auf die falsche Region oder das falsche Stadtviertel konzentriert.
Zwar gibt es auch in Deutschland Orte, die in der öffentlichen Diskussion häufig als „Problemviertel“ bezeichnet werden, weil dort Parallelgesellschaften einen Nährboden für Gewalt und Kriminalität schafften. Berlin-Neukölln wird gerne genannt oder Duisburg-Marxloh. Doch das sind nicht die Brennpunkte, die Polizei und Verfassungsschützer im Auge haben, wenn sie von den wichtigsten Gefahrenherden des Islamismus in Deutschland sprechen. Die Karte mit den islamistischen Problemvierteln ist groß und reicht von Berlin über Niedersachsen und Bremen bis tief in den Westen ins einstige Bonner Diplomatenviertel Bad-Godesberg. Der Föderalismus scheint auch für die Islamisten zu gelten. » | Von Reinhard Bingener, Hannover, Reiner Burger, Düsseldorf, Mechthild Küpper und Eckart Lohse, Berlin | Dienstag, 17. November 2015
Is President Obama Delusional?
Huckabee on War on Terror: 'It's Put Up or Shut Up Time'
Op-Ed: Paris Pays the Price of Europe's Inability to Recognize the Real Enemy
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What happened in Paris on the horrifying night of Friday November 13, 2015, is Europe's chickens coming home to roost. For decades Europe turned a blind eye to the virulent humans rights violations of despotic, radical Islamic regimes across the Middle East. Within Europe, and across Western intelligentsia, a politically correct ideology took hold. Backed by an omnipotent politically correct mainstream media-- violent, misogynist, anti-Semitic, and anti-democratic rhetoric and behavior by radical muslims [sic] at home and abroad was either given a free pass, or got little to no media coverage. Meanwhile, Israel was singled out for biased, hypocritical and immoral condemnation. And by ignoring what is the real threat to Western civilization and democracy, Leonardo Da Vinci's immortal words turned into a devastating reality: "he who does not punish evil, commands it to be done.”
France, Europe, and the West will be making yet another terrible miscalculation, in the aftermath of this horrendous attack, if they interpret these attacks as only emanating from the Islamic State. The issue is much broader than that, and is a clash of civilizations (as the term was coined by Prof. Samuel Huntington), between democratic modernism and theocratic medieval barbarism. The West needs to recognize and acknowledge the enemy, namely radical Islamism. Sadly this is not a fringe movement, as PC ideologues would like to believe, and enjoys widespread and popular support.
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Read the whole article here » | Noam Rotem | Tuesday, November 17, 2015
Finland: Anti-migrant Rally Fumes against Mosque Construction Plan
Europe's 'Porous Borders' Increase Terror Risk, Head of Metropolitan Police Says
Europe's "porous" borders mean that terrorists could be able to "hide" among migrants coming from Syria, the head of the Metropolitan Police has warned as he criticised the Schengen agreement.
Sir Bernard Hogan-Howe said that in the wake of the Paris terror attacks Europe has a significant "problem" because it has "millions of people wandering through" but only "limited control over the borders".
Asked if he is a fan of the Schengen agreement on open borders, he wants "good strong borders" to ensure that the police and security services can properly assess the risk people pose.
He told LBC Radio: "If you've got porous borders and you've got migrants coming through there's a risk that terrorists are hidden amongst them or people who become terrorists get hidden amongst them. (+ video) » | Steven Swinford, Deputy Political Editor, video source LBC | Tuesday, November 17, 2015
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After Paris Attacks, a Darker Mood Toward Islam Emerges in France
Unlike the response in January after attacks at the satirical newspaper Charlie Hebdo and elsewhere left 17 dead, there were no grand public appeals for solidarity with Muslims after the Friday attacks that left 129 dead in Paris. There were no marches, few pleas not to confuse practitioners of Islam with those who preach jihad.
Instead, there was a palpable fear, even anger, as President François Hollande asked Parliament to extend a state of emergency and called for changing the Constitution to deal with terrorism. It was largely unspoken but nevertheless clear: Secular France had always had a complicated relationship with its Muslim community, but now it was tipping toward outright distrust, even hostility.
The shift could be all the more tempting because the government is struggling to find its footing politically as it is threatened on its far right by the anti-immigrant National Front party.
Already, tough talk from officials in the government shows them shifting rightward, calling for new scrutiny of mosques, extending the state of emergency and possibly placing restrictions on the 10,000 or more people loosely indexed as possible threats to the state. France needs to “expel all these radicalized imams,” Prime Minister Manuel Valls declared Saturday. » | Adam Nossiter and Liz Alderman | Monday, November 16, 2015
Monday, November 16, 2015
France Will Be in a State of Emergency for Three Months: Hollande Vows to 'Destroy' ISIS and Pledges 'No Barbarians Will Prevent Us from Living How We Have Decided to Live'
France will be in a state of emergency for the next three months and is now 'at war' with ISIS, Francois [sic] Hollande said today.
The French President told MPs in Paris he 'will destroy' the terror group by intensifying bombing raids on targets in Syria and is sending an aircraft carrier packed with jets this week.
In a speech at Versailles this afternoon Mr Hollande announced he wants a new UN Security Council resolution to fight ISIS, which could in theory lead to a coalition ground invasion.
He said: 'France is at war. No barbarians will prevent us from living how we have decided to live. To live fully. Terrorism will never destroy the republic, because the republic will destroy terrorism'.
To make France safer from future attacks he said he would change the law to revoke terrorists of their French citizenship and ban them from entering the country. Read on and comment » | Martin Robinson for MailOnline | Monday, November 16, 2015
Merkel will alle "Flüchtlinge"der Welt nach Deutschland herlocken
Terror in Paris - Anschläge auf die Freiheit - Sicherheit, Flüchtlinge, Hetze, Solidarität - ZDF
Pegida-Demo: Mehr als 9000 Teilnehmer am Montagabend
Drei Tage nach den Anschlägen in Paris hat die fremdenfeindliche und antiislamische Pegida-Bewegung in Dresden offenbar etwas mehr Zulauf bekommen. Nach ersten Schätzungen der Studenteninitiative "Durchgezählt" kamen zu der Pegida-Kundgebung am Montagabend 9000 bis 12000 Menschen. Vor einer Woche hatte Pegida bis zu 8500 Anhänger auf die Straße gebracht.
Zum Beginn der Kundgebung vor der Semperoper legten die Demonstranten eine Schweigeminute für die Opfer der Anschläge in Paris ein. Einige Demonstranten trugen französische Fahnen mit Trauerflor. Es waren Plakate zu sehen mit Aufschriften wie "Je suis Paris", aber auch "Gestern in Paris - morgen in Deutschland". » | APA/AFP | Montag, 16. November 2015
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Anonymous Declares War on Islamic State after Paris Attacks in Chilling Video
Paris attacks: Anonymous declares war on Isil. Hacker group Anonymous says in a video that it will "hunt" Islamic State after its terrorist attacks in Paris, France on Friday.
Anonymous has posted a video declaring war against Islamic State following a series of terror attacks in Paris that have left at least 129 people dead. The hacker group, known for its cyber attacks against controversial organisations and individuals, is believed to have uploaded the footage on Friday night.
In the video, an announcer wearing an Anonymous Guy Fawkes mask and speaking French says: "You should know that we will find you and we will not let you go. "We will launch the biggest operation ever against you. "Expect massive cyber attacks. War is declared. Get prepared.
"The French people are stronger than you and will come out of this atrocity even stronger."
Islamic State Threatens Further Attacks in New Video
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Franklin Graham Blames Terror Attacks on Islam, Sends Team of Chaplains to Paris
The Billy Graham Evangelistic Association is sending a rapid-response team of chaplains to Paris.
The move comes as Franklin Graham, who heads the Charlotte-based group, continues to make waves by blaming the latest ISIS terror attacks on the religion of Islam and calling for restricting Muslim immigration to the United States.
“In the hours after the horrific attacks, some said ‘Terrorism has no religion.’ Do not be fooled. ... In this case, terrorism does have a religion – its name is Islam and its god is Allah,” Graham wrote in a Facebook post Saturday. “Islam is at war with us – we’ve witnessed its evil face firsthand over and over.”
In a second Facebook post Saturday, Graham reiterated his call for reform of America’s immigration policies to exclude Muslims. “We cannot allow Muslim immigrants to come across our borders unchecked while we are fighting this war of terror,” he wrote. “If we continue to allow Muslim immigration, we’ll see much more of what happened in Paris – it’s on our doorstep.” » | Tim Funk | Sunday, November 15, 2015
L’editorial du Guardian: Nous devons rester fermes après les attaques de Paris
Avant d’évoquer quoi que que soit d’autre, parlons des victimes. Au milieu du bruit qui suit un épouvantable acte de violence, au milieu du vacarme des débats et des argumentaires, il est facile de ne plus entendre la seule douleur de l’événement. Paris déplore la perte d’au moins 132 personnes qui, ce vendredi, se livraient à des activités inoffensives et heureuses: manger ensemble, regarder ensemble un match de football, écouter de la musique ensemble. Ils sont morts aujourd’hui, assassinés dans des circonstances absolument terrifiantes. Les survivants, les blessés, les Français tous ensemble, déjà blessés par les attaques meurtrières de Janvier, sont sous le choc. Dans leur perte, leur deuil, leur douleur, nous sommes avec eux.
Le Président Français a répondu aux tueries parisiennes en les qualifiant de déclaration de guerre. Cela semble incontestable. Parler des tirs et des explosions de vendredi soir comme de simples crimes, comme s’ils n’étaient qu’une suite de meurtres commis par des gangs urbains, passe à côté de quelque chose d’important. Ces meurtres ont été coordonnés, méticuleusement planifiés et, selon des témoins visuels, effectués avec une précision froide et militaire. François Hollande n’a pas, pour rien, parlé de confrontation avec « l’armée » d’EI (Etat islamique). » | Monday, November 16, 2015
Read this editorial in English »
France Launches 'Massive' Airstrikes In Wake Of Paris Attacks
France launched “massive” airstrikes against the Islamic State’s de facto capital in Syria on Sunday as French and Belgian police hunted a fugitive who was among the perpetrators of Friday’s bloody wave of suicide bombings and shootings in Paris.
As evidence mounted of a sophisticated, multinational terror operation with links to at least three European countries and the Middle East, 12 French aircraft including 10 fighter jets dropped a total of 20 bombs on a jihadi training camp and munitions dump in the city of Raqqa.
A French defence ministry statement said the strike, launched in coordination with US forces from airfields in Jordan and the Persian Gulf, was the biggest since France extended its bombing campaign against the extremist group to Syria in September.
Meanwhile in Paris, French police had released a wanted notice for Salah Abdeslam, a 26-year-old man born in Brussels, thought to be one of three French brothers living in Belgium who were involved in the attacks, which killed 129 people and left more than 350 injured, including nearly 100 critically. Belgian police also issued an international arrest warrant in Abdeslam’s name. » | Jon Henley in Paris and Ian Traynor in Molenbeek | Monday, November 16, 2015
Sunday, November 15, 2015
Hollande va s’adresser aux parlementaires pour «rassembler la nation»
Pour la deuxième fois de l’histoire de la Ve République, et même depuis 1848, un chef de l’Etat s’exprimera devant tous les parlementaires réunis en Congrès à Versailles, une allocution rendue possible depuis la réforme de la Constitution, en 2008. Nicolas Sarkozy avait été le premier à utiliser ce droit, en juin 2009, pour présenter ses orientations économiques et sociales. » | Par Hélène Bekmezian | dimanche 15 novembre 2015
Turkey: Lavrov Calls on World Leaders to Build Universal Anti-terrorist Front
Germany: After Paris, President Gauck Speaks of a "New Type of War"
Les Souverains choqués, attristés, révulsés
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| Les souverains d'Europe, du Maroc, de Jordanie ont adressé leurs condoléances à la France |
Dans une dépêche officielle adressée au président de la République française François Hollande, le prince Albert II de Monaco a indiqué: «Les attaques qui viennent de frapper Paris au cœur nous révulsent. Mon pays partage le chagrin et l'effroi de la France amie, meurtrie par ces crimes terroristes». Après avoir fait part d’une «profonde émotion» et dit s’incliner «devant la mémoire des si nombreuses victimes et la douleur indicible de leurs familles», le souverain de la Principauté écrit: «En mon nom personnel, en celui de ma Famille et de la population de Monaco, je veux vous assurer de notre profonde et réelle solidarité, en union avec toutes les personnes qui se mobilisent contre le fléau terroriste. Aux côtés de la République française, nous savons qu'il ne l'emportera pas.» » | Dominique Bonnet | samedi 14 novembre 2015
UK: Victims of Paris Attacks Honoured at Trafalgar Square Vigil
New Dark Age Alert! Germany: Neo-Nazi March Honours National Socialism in Wunsiedel
Saturday, November 14, 2015
How Can Anyone Be Shocked?
One of the most surprising aspects of the terrorist attacks in Paris on Friday night is how "deeply shocked" members of the European political establishment appeared to be.
Angela Merkel, David Cameron and the Pope all expressed their condolences -- and "deep shock" -- at the well-coordinated, citywide terror attacks in six different places across Paris, which as of this writing have claimed at least 128 lives and more than 200 wounded. French President François Hollande confirmed that Islamic State terrorists perpetrated the attacks, carried out with suicide bombings, hand grenades and assault rifles. According to witnesses, terrorists were heard yelling, "Allahu Akbar" ['Allah is the Greatest"] and "this is for Syria" as they shot into the audience at the Bataclan Theater, where a rock concert was underway.
Although the writing has literally been on the wall in blood for the past decade and a half, the West, especially Europe, continues to be taken aback every time a new terror attack occurs, as if each one were the first. » | Judith Bergman | Saturday, November 14, 2015
Merkel zu den Anschlägen von Paris: "Wir weinen mit Ihnen"
Tensions in Germany Rise Amid Flood of Asylum-Seekers
Someone had sprayed a gallows on the front of his house, along with Herbst's name and the word "Volksverraeter" — traitor to the German people.
"Now we indeed have a new situation," Herbst said in a telephone interview the day after the incident. "You start worrying about your safety and that of your family."
The incident reflects a growing public tension in Germany. While it's the extremists on the far right who are grabbing most of the headlines, mainstream Germans are increasingly being drawn into inflammatory rhetoric — and at times anti-foreigner sentiment. The country's normally staid — some might say dull — political debates have in particular become inflamed with vitriol amid the influx of hundreds of thousands of asylum seekers in recent months.
Nazi comparisons, once considered beyond the pale of polite political discussion in a country still grappling with its genocidal past, have become a common slur. The co-founder of anti-Islam group PEGIDA, Lutz Bachmann, last week likened Germany's justice minister to Nazi demagogue Joseph Goebbels; in response, a senior official in Justice Minister Heiko Maas' party labeled Bachmann a "crazy fascist."
"The situation that we have at the moment is leading to a split in society where people are drifting apart," said Joachim Trebbe, a communications researcher at Berlin's Free University. » | Frank Jordans, Associated Press | Berlin | Saturday, November 14, 2015
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National Borders Must Be Closed across Europe to Halt an 'Islamic Invasion' Says Far-right Dutch Politician Geert Wilders
The best way to deal with Europe's growing refugee crisis is to close national borders to stop an 'Islamic invasion', Dutch anti-immigration politician Geert Wilders says.
As the popularity of his far-right Freedom Party (PVV) skyrockets amid Europe's largest movement of migrants since World War II, Wilders has his sights set on becoming the next prime minister of the Netherlands in elections due in 2017. 'The only way to deal with it (the refugee crisis) is to regain our national sovereignty and close our national borders,' Wilders said.
Talking to AFP, he continued: 'I'm not asking for anything strange, I am asking that our government close its doors as Hungary did ... that we close our borders to those we consider to be migrants, not refugees.'
Reviled and supported in equal measure, Wilders' fiery rhetoric is finding fertile ground among working and middle-class Dutch, who fear social upheaval as thousands of asylum seekers from Syria, Afghanistan and other conflict areas reach the Netherlands. Read on and comment » | Ted Thornhill for MailOnline and AFP | Friday, November 13, 2015
Friday, November 13, 2015
Multiple Attacks Roil Paris; President Hollande Is Evacuated From Stadium
The shooting broke out at a concert hall. Some reports said as many as 18 had been killed in the 10th and 11th Arrondissements of Paris. Others said hostages had been taken.
It was unclear whether there was a link in any of the violence to terrorism but French media reported that Kalashnikov rifles were involved in the shootings — a favored weapon of militants who have attacked targets in France — and that many rounds were fired.
The shootings occurred near the former headquarters of Charlie Hebdo, the satirical newspaper where shootings in January traumatized France.
Police sirens sounded throughout central Paris on Friday night. » | Adam Nossiter | Friday, November 13, 2015
Angela Merkel's Future Under Scrutiny for the First Time as German Asylum Process Criticised
Angela Merkel’s political future is being questioned for the first time in Germany as divisions continue to grow in her government over her “open-door” refugee policy.
Guests on a popular television political talk show debated the possibility of a coup against the German chancellor from within her own party.
The discussion came as civil servants at the government refugee agency published warned identity checks for Syrian asylum-seekers were ineffective and open to abuse by economic migrants and terrorists.
Wolfgang Schäuble, the finance minister, warned that Germany was facing an “avalanche” of refugees set off by a “careless skier”.
And Thomas de Maiziere, the interior minister, twice acted unilaterally to introduce stricter controls on Syrian asylum-seekers without informing Mrs Merkel. » | Justin Huggler, Berlin | Friday, November 13, 2015
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