„Der französische Innenminister Bernard Cazeneuve gab zu Protokoll, dass die beiden Tatverdächtigen des Pariser Anschlags überwacht worden seien. Dabei habe es allerdings keinerlei Hinweise auf einen bevorstehenden Terrorakt gegeben“

The criminal, who captured the visitors of the kosher store in the 20th arrondissement of Paris, has been killed as a result of the assault, RIA Novosti reported citing Le Monde newspaper.

Brothers Said and Sheriff Kuashi, suspected of committing attack to the office of Charlie Hebdo, were killed as a result of the assault in the Dammartin-en-Goele city, RIA Novosti reported.

Bezüglich der militärisch präzise und eiskalt exekutierten Morde am französischen Elitesoldaten Imad Ibn-Ziaten vom 1. (24.03.2012) Fallschirmspringerregiment am 11. März in Toulouse, an den französischen Elitesoldaten Abdel Chennouf und Mohamed Legouaddes vom 17. Fallschirmspringerregiment am 15. März in Montauban, an Rabbi Yonatan Sandler, seinen Kindern Aryeh, Gavriel und an Miriam Monsonego am 19. März in Toulouse, sowie dem durch eine Spezialeinheit der französischen Polizei am 23. März vermeldeten Tod des mutmasslichen alleinigen Täters Mohamed Merah eine These über mögliche Hintergründe, Abläufe und Motive der Verbrechen. Ebenso über mögliche Abscheulichkeiten der politischen Instrumentalisierung.

En clair: la police devait les surveiller mais n‘aurait rien détecté de suspect avant les faits. Ce qui évoquerait peut-être un scénario à la Mohamed Merah, le tueur de Toulouse dont la dangerosité fut mal évaluée par l‘antiterrorisme avant qu‘il ne commettre ses assassinats en 2012.

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Don Alphonso erklärt, wieso das so ist:

„Nicht etwa, weil das möglicherweise fundamentalen Prinzipien des Abendlandes wie der Meinungsfreiheit und Gewaltenteilung widerspräche, sondern weil Frankreich das alles längst hat.“

After a series of moves that include introducing copyright laws that threaten the digital commons and open access, as well as criminalizing online calls for street demonstrations, Spain is fast emerging as a serious rival to Russia when it comes to grinding down the digital world. Unfortunately, it seems that lack of understanding extends to the judiciary too, as shown by recent events reported by Rise Up, an „autonomous body based in Seattle“, which aims to provide secure and private email accounts for „people and groups working on liberatory social change“. Here‘s what happened to some of its users in Spain:

Sagt der Chef von „Bild“-Online, und der kennt sich da aus, der hat nämlich mit US-Amerikanischen „Antiterror“-„Experten“ gesprochen.

The French Interior Ministry on Friday denied media reports that two people were dead in a shootout at a kosher supermarket in Paris. France 24, citing police sources, said that there was „one wounded man in serious condition“.

The subsequent taking of hostages in a Parisian kosher supermarket by an acquaintance of the shooters was an even more despicable act, leading to the deaths of at least four. Both incidents are horrific tragedies, and deserve harsh condemnation.

Yet they have exponentially overshadowed equally tragic recent attacks on journalists. In its November 2012 attack on Gaza, “Operation Pillar of Defense,” the Israeli government admitted that it was targeting journalists. This trend was revisited only months ago in Israel’s summer 2014 assault, “Operation Protective Edge,” an incursion that left 2,310 dead—over 1,500 of whom were civilians, including at least 500 children—and 10,626 wounded.

Der Bundestag muss der Verlängerung des Einsatzes noch zustimmen.

“Our position on Hamas has not changed. Hamas is a designated foreign terrorist organization that continues to engage in terrorist activity and demonstrated its intentions during the summer’s conflict in – with Israel,” U.S. State Department Spokesperson Jen Psaki said during daily press briefing on Jan. 8.

Secrecy is trade negotiators‘ stock-in-trade, and it has allowed them to sneak through rules on topics such as copyright and patents that would never pass muster under public scrutiny. EFF has not hesitated to call them out over this, whether the trade agreement in question is the Trans-Pacific Partnership, the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) between Europe and the United States, or the Trade in Services Agreement (TISA).

There are numerous instances in which countries enacted sweeping new laws in the wake of an attack or in response to a threat, when grief and fear outweighed commitments to freedom of expression and privacy. The consequences can be far reaching. In the United Kingdom, the government swiftly revised police powers with the Terrorist Act of 2006 in the wake of bombings in London. In Australia, new legislative measures were introduced in response to a foiled terrorism plot. In 2012, Iraq tried to quickly push through a set of strict “cybercrime” laws in the wake of the Arab Spring uprisings. And in the U.S., the 9/11 attacks were used to justify poorly considered legislation that significantly broadened surveillance authorities. Already, U.S. senators are using the Paris attacks to justify mass surveillance programs by the National Security Agency.

Let us defend freedom of expression by committing to uphold all rights.

Pentagon officials stressed Thursday that the European Infrastructure Consolidation (EIC) project will not diminish US military might in Europe, an operational hub for actions taken in the Middle East and North Africa.

NATO commander Gen. Philip Breedlove is giving us the broadest strokes of it, however, telling Stars and Stripes today that the American public needs to prepare itself for more US casualties in Afghanistan, saying it was “unavoidable.”

Though my heart goes out to the victims to the shooting at the Charlie Hedbo headquarters ( I ALSO DO NOT CONDONE THE ACT OF VIOLENCE AS A SOLUTION TO RACISM OR HATE ) I need it to be known that this newspaper was not some sweet periodical that used it’s platform of freedom of speech as a catalyst to social change in France. Before you allow Fox News to label the shooters as Muslim Terrorist and that all Muslims are terrorist and that Charlie Hebdo was a magazines for families and saints you need to know that this newspaper was infamously known for being racist, homophobic, and highly islamophobic. I am not one to laugh at a blatant racist comic as “oh lol free speech” because with free speech comes RESPONSIBILITY.

It should be no secret that the Muslim community in France has often been abused, push to the side, and ignored. Even laws are put in place to prevent then from practicing their beliefs comfortably.For Charlie Hebdo to be a left wing newspaper that questioned the actions of the right wing, why does it often look like they are laughing along with them? Why can’t this magazine question why we are racist and islamophobic than to continue to justify their belief in supposed “ironic” comics?

Scrap option two, please; this was a pro job. And staying with option one, this points right at – what else – blowback. Yes, they could be Daesh/ISIS/ISIL mercenaries trained by NATO (crucially, France included) in Turkey and/or Jordan. But it might get even false-flag nastier. They could also be former or current French special forces.

Okay, let’s be clear. I am not Muslim. I oppose terrorism. I don’t even support the death penalty. I loathe Takfirism. I oppose violence as a means to make a political or ethical point. I fully support freedom of speech, including critical speech and humor. But this morning I am most definitely NOT Charlie. In fact, I am disgusted and nauseated by the sick display of collective hypocrisy about the murders in France. Here is why:

In the wake of the attack on Charlie Hebdo in Paris yesterday, many people have been talking about various issues related to free speech and satire. We didn‘t have much to add to that discussion so we stayed out of it, but it‘s concerning to see that those who wish to suppress other civil liberties are jumping at the chance to use the attack yesterday as a jumping off point. Here are just a few examples. The NY Post ran an article saying that this proves the NYPD shouldn‘t have stopped its „Muslim Mapping“ program:

The United Nations Security Council on Thursday backed plans by the Democratic Republic of Congo and U.N. peacekeepers to begin a military campaign to „neutralize“ a Rwandan rebel group in the country‘s rugged eastern provinces.

Ukraine‘s prime minister blamed Russian intelligence on Thursday for a hacker attack against German government websites, for which a pro-Russian group claimed responsibility.

Na macht nichts, Deutschland wirft mal kurz 500 Millionen Euro hinterher.