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PARIS JIHAD: Major Terrorist Attack UPDATE: French President Declares Emergency, Says ‘Several Dozen Dead’

Posted on | November 13, 2015 | 93 Comments

UPDATE 9:50 p.m. ET: Islamic terrorists struck the heart of France, murdering scores of civilians Friday in a bloody night of carefully coordinated violence. More than 150 people were reported killed, most of them at the Bataclan arts center where Muslim gunmen opened fired during a rock concert, then began systematically executing young people who could not escape. By the time police stormed the hall and ended the slaughter, 112 had been killed at the concert venue, according to the French interior ministry. Elsewhere, CNN reported, at least one suicide bomber struck the Stade de France, where a soccer game between France and Germany was being played.

UPDATE:

ISIS Claims Credit for Paris Slaughter;
Death Toll 127 in Islamic Terror Attack

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(5:35 p.m. ET) There has been a major Islamic terrorist attack tonight in Paris. An explosion was reported at a Germany-France soccer game, and gunmen have taken hostages in a concert hall.

The death toll is already estimated at 35-40.

UPDATE 5:52 p.m. ET: CNN reports:

— At least 60 people have died in the attacks, CNN affiliate BFMTV reported.
— Counterterrorism officials around the United States have convened secure conference calls to try to gather information and to assess whether there is any indication of threats in the U.S, according to two U.S. counterterrorism officials. There is nothing to indicate any threat to U.S. cities so far. Immediate suspicion for the events in Paris falls to so-called returnees — people who have traveled to Syria and Iraq and have returned, the officials said.
— At least six shootings took place in Paris and three explosions took place at the Stade de France in Saint-Denis late Friday, CNN affiliate BFMTV said. Two or three gunmen entered the Bataclan concert hall while opening fire on law enforcement, BFMTV reported. A source earlier told CNN there were six to eight hostage takers, citing a person they were talking to inside the venue.
— CNN’s Jim Bittermann, who is based in Paris, reports a producer who is at the Bataclan tells him that police are firing at a rooftop position near the venue.
— President Francois Hollande was evacuated at halftime of the France-Germany soccer match.
— Hollande, Prime Minister Manuel Valls and Interior Minister Bernard Cazeneuve are holding a crisis meeting at the Interior Ministry to address the attacks in Paris and the explosions in Saint-Denis, according to BFMTV.
— Paris police tell CNN there were three attacks. Attackers reportedly used AK-47 automatic weapons. There were one or two explosions at the Stade de France.

UPDATE 5:59 p.m. ET: In a brief statement at the White House, President Obama said, “France is our oldest ally,” and “Paris itself represents the timeless values of human progress.” In Paris, meanwhile, President Hollande declared a state of emergency, announcing that the French military was being deployed and that France is closing its borders.

UPDATE 6:14 p.m. ET: Associated Press:

Hollande, in a televised address to his nation, said the nation would stand firm and united against the attackers.
He said security forces are assaulting one of the sites hit by Friday’s attacks, without elaborating.
“It’s a horror,” he said.

UPDATE 6:25 p.m. ET: BBC reports:

France has declared a national state of emergency and has closed its borders after at least 40 people were killed in multiple shootings in Paris.
At least 15 people have been killed near the Bataclan arts centre, where up to 60 people are reportedly being held hostage, French media say.
Three people were killed in an attack at the Stade de France, with some reports suggesting a suicide blast.
Paris authorities have asked people to stay indoors.
Military personnel are being deployed across Paris.

(Via Memeorandum.) There are reports that gunmen at the concert hall are executing hostages one by one. Meanwhile, it has just been reported that five explosions were heard near the concert hall.

UPDATE 6:45 p.m. ET: Robert Spencer at Jihad Watch:

Islamic jihadis have long had France in their crosshairs. The Islamic State last year urged jihad attacks against the “spiteful and filthy French.” These attacks took place near the site of the Charlie Hebdo massacre. That massacre was an attempt to force the West to adopt Sharia blasphemy restrictions; there will be more of that.
Indeed, there will be much, much more of this bloodshed in the coming months and years. Meanwhile, watch for an avalanche of “This has nothing to do with Islam” statements from Western leaders and the mainstream media.

It is reported that French police are currently assaulting the Bataclan concert hall where gunmen were killing hostages.

UPDATE 6:56 p.m. ET: French police have just said their assault on the Bataclan concert hall has ended successfully. Police stormed the hall, killing two gunmen. The number of innocents killed and wounded remains unknown.

UPDATE 7:12 p.m. ET: New York Times:

French television and news services quoted the police as saying at least 60 people had been killed and many dozens wounded in apparently coordinated attacks, eclipsing the deaths and mayhem that roiled Paris in the Charlie Hebdo massacre and related assaults around the French capital less than a year ago.
One of the explosions, which French news services said may have been a suicide bombing, struck near the country’s main sports stadium where Germany and France were playing a soccer match, forcing a hasty evacuation of President François Hollande. As the scope of the assaults quickly became clear, he convened an emergency cabinet meeting and announced that France was closing its borders.
“As I speak, terrorist attacks of an unprecedented scale are taking place in the Paris region,” he said in a nationally televised address. “There are several dozen dead, lots more wounded, it’s horrific.”

UPDATE 7:48 p.m. ET: Fox News is citing reports that as many as 100 were killed inside the Bataclan concert hall. The total number of deaths from these attacks in Paris may exceed 140.

UPDATE 8:30 p.m. ET: The headline at Fox News:

Terrorists slaughter at least
118 in Paris music hall,
40 others in separate attacks





 

Category: France, Islam, Terrorism

Comments

93 Responses to “PARIS JIHAD: Major Terrorist Attack UPDATE: French President Declares Emergency, Says ‘Several Dozen Dead’”

  1. Evi L. Bloggerlady
    November 13th, 2015 @ 5:42 pm

    And you wonder why the French are telling Merkel what a complete nut job she is…

  2. Joe Guelph
    November 13th, 2015 @ 5:53 pm

    Those extremist Methodists are at it again.

  3. Jeanette Victoria
    November 13th, 2015 @ 6:00 pm

    It was workplace violence after all there were cries of “Allahu Akbar!”

  4. RKae
    November 13th, 2015 @ 6:01 pm

    Your paranoia and Methodophobia are showing again!

    Why do you always avoid the hard truth that the Amish are the problem?

  5. Durasim
    November 13th, 2015 @ 6:02 pm

    Now they’re saying about 100 people being held hostage in the theater/concert hall.

  6. Doktor Jeep
    November 13th, 2015 @ 6:05 pm

    Damned Branch Davidians you’d think Clinton managed to stamp out their kids.

  7. Bob Belvedere
    November 13th, 2015 @ 6:14 pm

    French President: ‘France is closing its borders’.

    Too late, salaud.

  8. Finrod Felagund
    November 13th, 2015 @ 6:19 pm

    It’s not just France. Pamela Geller has been reporting on the protests in Germany about how the invaders are making their country unlivable.

  9. Jim R
    November 13th, 2015 @ 6:24 pm

    At times like this, I remind myself that the French rep for being surrender monkeys is very unfair.

    I hope that the French will remember their ancestors and do what they need to do.

    I am sorry that this happened to them and hope we can help them.

  10. Animal
    November 13th, 2015 @ 6:44 pm

    Do you suppose there is another Charles Martel waiting in the wings?

  11. DeadMessenger
    November 13th, 2015 @ 7:05 pm

    You’re in deep trouble when even the French identify you as a nut job. Which Merkel clearly is.

  12. DeadMessenger
    November 13th, 2015 @ 7:06 pm

    Especially after the numerous buggy whip and stern look attacks.

  13. DeadMessenger
    November 13th, 2015 @ 7:16 pm

    Of course we’ll help them. Barry has already given his usual opening incoherent hopey-changey statement, but later on, from the golf course, he’ll get to the crux of the matter by praising Islam and Muslim cultural significance. Then he’ll offer to take a couple million young, male “Syrian refugees” off ISIS’s hands, in order to spread them around the Bible Belt, with newly minted EBT cards and maps to amusement parks, stadiums and malls all over the South.

    We’re lucky that our CIC has so much military experience, and knows just what to do in cases like this.

  14. Zhytamyr
    November 13th, 2015 @ 7:17 pm

    If I’m not mistaken, France has had the largest concentration of moslems in W Europe, and (moslem) “youths” go on an orgy of looting and arson in Paris every year. Perhaps France has reached the critical mass of third world thrill-kill cultists and is done?

  15. Jim R
    November 13th, 2015 @ 7:26 pm

    Arm yourselves, and be ye men of valour, and be in readiness for the conflict; for it is better for us to perish in battle than to look upon the outrage of our nation and our altars. As the will of God is in Heaven, even so let it be.

    Winston Churchill
    May 19, 1940

  16. Whitney
    November 13th, 2015 @ 7:40 pm

    How can a people who have become so weak “stand firm”.

  17. WarEagle82
    November 13th, 2015 @ 7:54 pm

    Coming soon to every city and village in Europe and America thanks to our ruling elite.

    GET ARMED NOW! The Battle of Garland was my epiphany. Will you wake up in time?

    How many of these terrorists are “Syrian refugees?”

    Anybody wonder if Fraud Merkel will do anything to end this madness and protect German citizens?

  18. Daniel O'Brien
    November 13th, 2015 @ 8:14 pm

    I think that’s Amish for Power to the People!

  19. Quartermaster
    November 13th, 2015 @ 8:15 pm

    Not likely. Western Civilization has been overtaken by men without chests.

  20. Quartermaster
    November 13th, 2015 @ 8:16 pm

    If it actually closes them, and starts send int he Muslims back where they came from, he can accomplish a lot. Given his background, however, I don’t see it happening.

  21. Quartermaster
    November 13th, 2015 @ 8:20 pm

    Those Amish are a lot more dangerous than you think! I wouldn’t be so lighthearted about it, were I you.

    http://reocities.com/beaver_militia/beaverbomb.html

  22. Rick Bulow
    November 13th, 2015 @ 8:31 pm

    I think I had heard the Charles DeGaulle airport will remain open. How can that be with the borders closed?

  23. Evi L. Bloggerlady
    November 13th, 2015 @ 8:31 pm

    Thanks again Germany for screwing Europe!

  24. Mike G.
    November 13th, 2015 @ 8:32 pm

    I can understand and sympathize with letting the women and children temporarily reside in host countries. Leave the young and adult men in their own countries to fight the supposed injustice they are running from.

    It’s the Christian thing to do.

  25. RKae
    November 13th, 2015 @ 8:38 pm

    How could this happen in a nation with unarmed cops on push bikes?

  26. RKae
    November 13th, 2015 @ 8:41 pm

    The people who tell you that the Amish are “the religion of peace” are just ignorant.

    They have apparently never felt the terror of being shunned for dancing.

  27. Joe Guelph
    November 13th, 2015 @ 8:42 pm

    Over 100 dead in the theater alone, apparently.

  28. RKae
    November 13th, 2015 @ 8:43 pm

    To quote Tom Lehrer: “We taught them a lesson in 1918, and they’ve hardly bothered us since then.”

  29. Jeanette Victoria
    November 13th, 2015 @ 8:44 pm

    Yeah now that can lock the Muslims in!

  30. Jeanette Victoria
    November 13th, 2015 @ 8:45 pm

    Obama doesn’t ‘want to Speculate’ on who may be Behind Paris Terror Attack

  31. Jeanette Victoria
    November 13th, 2015 @ 8:45 pm

    Western Civilization is in full rot. If you can move to the East do it!

  32. M. Thompson
    November 13th, 2015 @ 8:52 pm

    We can pray.

  33. Fail Burton
    November 13th, 2015 @ 8:54 pm

    “Stand firm” means whites, Christians and the West stand down. Check your privilege and “systemic” oppression and racism, the same “system” which bends over backwards to accommodate any non-white or Third World failure and re-imagine it as the failure of anyone who is white and First World by default. We’ve been warning about a coming civil war for a long time. If 150 civilian deaths inside a country at peace isn’t civil war, then what is? Muslims don’t play well with others, either by ideology or competence. The two will combine to strike tinder in any First World country in which they establish a community large enough to agitate.

  34. DeadMessenger
    November 13th, 2015 @ 8:57 pm

    Oh, he’ll speculate all right, soon as his staff can rustle up the name of a guy in Verneuil sur Arve who knows a guy who knows another guy who was thinking about making a youtube video about Mohammed’s second cousin’s camel breeder.

  35. DeadMessenger
    November 13th, 2015 @ 9:00 pm

    I was once triggered in Shipshewana when I was told that I ought to wear a bonnet and act more modestly.

  36. DeadMessenger
    November 13th, 2015 @ 9:01 pm

    That’s messed up.

  37. theoldsargesays
    November 13th, 2015 @ 9:01 pm

    How long will it be until we hear President Obama urging the French to use great restraint in dealing with this isolated incident ?

  38. theoldsargesays
    November 13th, 2015 @ 9:03 pm

    Did you heed their counsel?

  39. Steve Skubinna
    November 13th, 2015 @ 9:08 pm

    Every time he mentions “folks,” take a drink.

  40. theoldsargesays
    November 13th, 2015 @ 9:11 pm

    “President Hollande declared a state of emergency, announcing that the French military was being deployed and that France is closing its borders.”

    Lock it down, hunt them down, kill them.

  41. Fail Burton
    November 13th, 2015 @ 9:25 pm

    Let’s all pretend there was never anyone the Islamic world officially referred to as “The Sultan of Rome” for almost 5 centuries and that they have now ruled a city originally named after a Christian emperor since 1453.

    T-H-E S-U-L-T-A-N O-F R-O-M-E

    Whining about “post-colonialism” oddly never refers to the Greeks who were liberated only in the last century. I smell a con game.

  42. Fail Burton
    November 13th, 2015 @ 9:30 pm

    At Salon, Chauncy de Civilization has already declared this a matter of Conservative racial incitement. In a comments section, people are worried about a half-Asian Parisian SFF author who routinely attacks whites, Western colonialism and acted as an apologist in real time as it occurred for the man brutally slain in broad daylight in London by two black Muslims.

    Gee, I hope she’s all right. Probably the angel of death will notice her noble and brave markings and pass over her cuz gunpowder has that moral compass.

  43. Jeanette Victoria
    November 13th, 2015 @ 9:35 pm

    Unbelievable but not surprising

  44. MrJimm
    November 13th, 2015 @ 9:36 pm

    Whataya bet that at least some of the attackers were recent “refugee immigrants”? We’ll all know the answer for sure if nothing is reported in the mainstream media about that.
    When will these people (Merkel, Hollande, etc.) ever learn?

  45. CrustyB
    November 13th, 2015 @ 10:20 pm

    Yes, let’s bring in shitloads of Syrian refugees.

  46. Matt_SE
    November 13th, 2015 @ 10:35 pm

    I admire his ability to talk down to our level. That’s very big of him.

  47. Steve Skubinna
    November 13th, 2015 @ 10:43 pm

    I has to be difficult enough, carrying his enormous brain around with him.

  48. Joe Guelph
    November 13th, 2015 @ 10:43 pm

    The It’s-All-About-MeMeMe Generation, in full, festering flower.

  49. Steve Skubinna
    November 13th, 2015 @ 10:44 pm

    Yeah, sucks when the grownups talk about grownup stuff.

    “MOM! Lookitme!”

  50. Steve Skubinna
    November 13th, 2015 @ 10:48 pm

    You know, the old “mercenary” slogan “Kill them all, let God sort them out” actually comes from the 13th Century suppression of the Albigensian heresy. In France. It was actually created a half century after the Siege of Beziers and attributed to Arnaud-Amaury, the French Catholic commander.