PARIS ATTACK: Terrorist ‘Refugee’ Had Syrian Passport; Death Toll Now 129

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Reuters reports:

The holder of a Syrian passport found near the body of one of the gunmen who died in Friday night’s attacks in Paris passed through Greece in October, a Greek minister said.
“The holder of the passport passed through the island of Leros on Oct. 3, 2015, where he was identified according to EU rules,” Greece’s deputy minister in charge of police, Nikos Toskas, said in a statement.
Toskas did not know if the Syrian passport had been checked by other countries through which the holder might have passed on his way to France.
A Greek police source said the passport’s owner was a young man who had arrived in Leros on a small vessel from Turkey with a group of 69 refugees and had his fingerprints taken by Greek officials. . . .
Police declined to give the name of the Syrian passport holder, saying French authorities wanted to keep information about the suspect confidential.
The source said there were no official records showing the man had left Greece, but that authorities believed he may have done so through the border with Macedonia.
Greek police were also asked by French authorities to check on the holder of an Egyptian passport that was apparently found near the body of another attacker, but found no evidence so far that this second person may have also passed through Greece, the police source said.

The London Telegraph reports:

Francois Molins, the Paris prosecutor, is giving a press conference with the latest details from Franch police. He now says 129 people were killed in the Paris terror attacks and 352 people were injured.
He says 99 of the injured are in critical condition. . . .
Francois Molins, the Paris prosecutor, said a black Polo parked in front of the Bataclan concert hall just before the attacks. This is where the largest loss of life occurred, he said, with 89 people killed. Three terrorists died. One was shot by police and two detonated suicide vests.
He said three “terrorist teams” were involved in the attacks.

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  2. That was one of the biggest mistakes we made in Iraq when we removed Saddam. Right after we killed Saddam, we should have given the keys to the next guy in line and told him, “don’t make us come back.” Instead, we disassembled the regime and laid the foundation for ISIS.

  3. Probably the AC 556, rather than the Mini 14. They look identical, but the AC 556 is a select fire weapon. Other than an auto sear and disconnector, they function the same as well.

  4. All of your points are correct regarding the governing elite, with any luck it’ll get bad enough for the masses to get pissed off and solve both problems.

  7. C4, claymores, SM-70 directional antipersonnel mines, punji sticks, bouncing betty’s, and sand-filled used beer cans resting atop M5 pressure-release firing devices screwed into M26 grenades buried on your property?

    I’d like all those things myself, but figured they were unladylike.

  8. Agreed.
    As much as I’d enjoy shooting some jihadis. I’d just as soon let them have their way with some people, so I’d let them have their way with the folks at Salon and then give them directions to MSNBC.

  10. You’re right, of course. Considering that Palin is walking distance from Russia (from what I read in the MSM, anyway), she, with the help of the NRA and the Duck Dynasty guys, and a coverup by Limbaugh, with a distraction provided by Carson, could easily procure all sorts of illicit ordnance with which to arm ISIS. There’s your vast right-wing conspiracy. I can see that. I bet Salon and Rolling Stone see it, too.

  11. I know. What’s a few more jihadists, right? They’ll blend right in, considering how quickly they assimilate.

  13. Dealing with Islamic hegemony will be childs-play

    Islamic hegemony, like what took over and held southern Europe for centuries? So, on top of generations of debt already piled up by the Left in America, you’re okay with adding generations of warfare because you didn’t want to engage the lethal enemy until it had assimilated the other one and turned it lethal as well?

  14. An old sarge like yourself ought to have a huge appreciation for an armed woman with an attitude and PMS in times of trouble.

    “Hold down the fort, honey, while I ride out and neutralize this threat!”

    “YOU BEST BRING BACK SOME BUTTER PECAN ICE CREAM WITH YOU, OR ELSE!”

  16. Well, there is a certain irony in Russia becoming the defenders of Christendom, while the secular materialistic American empire only makes things worse with its constant meddling; but yeah, it’s not the kind that you laugh at.

  18. Ideologies don’t bleed. People do. Should we have stayed out of World War II because the USSR was one of the combatants?

  19. Frankly, I scare me, too. I don’t know how to put on makeup, but I do know how to make tasty MREs, in case TSHTF. I’m not interested in going in shoe stores for another pair of heels, but would rather browse military surplus stores, looking for a nice rifle sling.

  20. I think you misunderstand why Parisians have that reputation here. Our tourists, accustomed to our accommodating service industry, go into restaurants expecting servility — from Frenchmen who were raised from birth to believe themselves the equal of any king. Neither walks away happy from that encounter.

    If anything, armed Frenchmen would result in politer Americans.

  21. That would be to the good also.
    However two of the rudest people I’ve ever met only thought they were French but were really Canadians.

  22. The only strange thing about what you said is that there are so many people who don’t find it obvious.

  23. The C-4 and Claymores would make nice stocking stuffers but what I really want is an MG-42 chambered in 308 with three extra barrels and half a million rounds of linked ammo. And for the back porch I’d like…………..

  25. Actually there’s an odd historical parallel with Russia pretending to be the defender of Christendom. After the fall of the Byzantine Empire their pretense was that they were its legitimate heirs. Up to the end of the Tsars they had designs on Constantinople, though a lot of that was basic geostrategy cloaked in religious and cultural justification.

  26. Back when I was a doggie, the most common piece of field equipment we all carried was a small bottle of Tabasco in a nylon holster.

    Made the C-Rats almost palatable.

  27. You know, before I retired I sat on a metric butt-ton of that kind of stuff.

    Do I miss it? Well, sometimes… but then I remember where it was located, and all the rest of it, and decide the young kids can have it.

  28. I have nearly no experience with Paris. I have spent time in the south of France, and had some of the most memorable meals of my life there, facilitated by some of the best wait staff I have ever encountered.

    While in the US the best restaurants are known by their chefs, in France it’s not at all uncommon for the owner to be the maitre d’hotel. Service is an honored profession there, and the good ones are on a par with the best you’ll find here. The best ones there… well, you have to experience it to understand it.

  29. Actually, the people the French despise more than Americans are Francophone Canadians.

    That’s not quite fair… as mentioned above, I have experience in the south of France, and found the people there generous, accommodating, friendly and courteous. Try a little bit of bastardized French, and they will laugh, gently correct you, take the time to explain the menu, and bring you extras and advise you where else to go.

  30. It was obvious to me after a handful of Percocet and half a bottle of Bourbon.

    Which might explain progressivism, save that I doubt they drink Bourbon.

  36. When I was stationed in Italy the Carabinieri were described by an Italian I spoke with as a Para-Military force. Not quite Military but not quite Police either. That might have changed since I left in ’73. I had figured the French Gendarmarie was about the same.

  39. I luved Cs. My father was Air Force Food Service and they had to put a certain amount of the things out on the serving line every month. few, of course, would take them, and he’d bring home 4-5 cases 3 times a year. We kept them for our “bug out” food incase we had to head for France or Spain if Ivan got into his head he’d like to visit Oktoberfest. We’d go through the stuff when my father would bring the new lot home. I liked Ham and “mothers” and scrambled eggs and ham. Last Crats I had in the TNARNG in ’85 was pork slices. Good stuff!

  43. Since the Neocons became ascendant, he would be correct. Korea and Vietnam were much different kettles of fish. Korea was fought to keep communism from threatening Japan. We had a treaty obligation in Vietnam. I have no trouble with Grenada, but have doubts about Panama and following.

  44. Wow… the ham and eggs, chopped was my least favorite. Just looking at that congealed gray mass in the can was an appetite killer.

    The spaghetti was good, and so were the beans and franks or the beans and meatballs. Just about all of them were okay if you had the heat tabs and made a stove out of a small can. Eating them cold in the rain wasn’t so great.

    I also liked those rock hard crackers. Later on I discovered pilot crackers and decided that’s what the C-Rat ones were supposed to be.

  46. The Carabinieri were incorporated into the regular military sometime in the nineties.

    My M1 Carbine from the CMP is one of the batch returned from Italy. So I get a kick that I have a weapon that was literally used by the Carabinieri.

  47. I liked the crackers too. I’d smear them with whatever came in the pack. Preferred Pnut Butter though. The candy was usually pretty good.

  49. There’s an anti jamming device that could be installed and removed fairly easily that cut it down to about 800. They went for the high rate 42, as opposed to the 800 RPM MG-34 because their research showed that it was actually possible to run ”between” the bullets at anything close to a right angle. The downside was they had to be deployed in pairs one covering the other while the overheated barrels are changed.

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