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Confirmed: Charlie Sheen Has HIV

Posted on | November 17, 2015 | 63 Comments

 

It was Regular Right Guy who tipped me to the rumor two weeks ago that Charlie Sheen has the AIDS virus, and I wrote:

The recklessness of Sheen’s life — cocaine and whores — was bound to catch up with him sooner or later, and if he is indeed infected with HIV, this would not be particularly surprising.

Tragic, but not surprising. The news this week:

Charlie Sheen is expected to disclose that he is HIV positive in an exclusive “Today” Show interview on Tuesday, a source with direct knowledge of the interview told CNNMoney.
On Monday, NBC announced that the actor would be making a “revealing personal announcement” on the “Today” show Tuesday morning.
The source told CNNMoney that Sheen is expected to discuss his HIV condition when he sits down with Matt Lauer live from the “Today” show studio in New York City.
In addition, Hollywood public relations specialist Howard Bragman was quoted in People Magazine saying that Sheen “is getting treatment, and a lot of people in his life know about it.”

So, Regular Right Guy is right again. Always trust your blog buddies. Sources say Sheen’s ex-wife had known he was infected:

As Charlie Sheen gets ready to announce to the world that he is HIV positive, a source tells Access Hollywood that Sheen’s ex-wife, Denise Richards, has known Sheen had the disease for a “number of years.”
A source close to Richards told Access Hollywood that the actor contracted the disease in the years after he and Richards divorced in 2006.
Sheen and Richards have “not been intimate” since the divorce, the source added.
Sheen and Richards first met in 2000, but didn’t begin dating until October 2001, when Richards appeared on Sheen’s sitcom “Spin City.” The couple got engaged on December 26, 2001 and tied the knot on June 15, 2002.
In March 2005, Richards filed for divorce. The divorce was finalized in November 2006.

To me, that’s the real kick in the head of this story. By the time he met Denise Richards, Charlie Sheen had spent enough years as Hollywood’s roguish bad boy that you might have thought he would be more than happy to hang up his spurs and retire from the rodeo.

 

And what a fairly tale ending that would have been, eh? The notorious womanizer finally settling down to family life, married to one of the most beautiful young actresses on the planet. But it wasn’t enough for Charlie. His oversized ego, and the bad habits he acquired as a young prince of Hollywood, could not adapt to the constraints of domestic tranquility. He wrecked his marriage and ruined his career and, somewhere in this celebrity tragedy, there may be a lesson worth studying.

Money won’t buy happiness, and it won’t buy silence, either:

Charlie Sheen kept his HIV status under wraps, but everything unraveled when some former partners threatened him with lawsuits . . .
Charlie confided in several friends he thought were confidants … it turned out they weren’t, and spread the word he was HIV positive.
That led to several of Charlie’s former partners contacting him and threatening a lawsuit because they were unaware of his status when they had interaction with him. Our sources say Charlie settled several of the cases and, in return for money, got confidentiality agreements.
We’re told one of the settlements occurred late last month.

 

Category: Celebrities

FRANCE AT WAR: Jets Strike ISIS Stronghold; Terror Suspects Raided

Posted on | November 16, 2015 | 133 Comments

 

Friday’s attack in Paris has prompted French authorities to take military action against the ISIS stronghold of Raqqa:

France bombed the Syrian city of Raqqa on Sunday night, its most aggressive strike against the Islamic State group it blames for killing 129 people in a string of terrorist attacks across Paris only two days before. . . .
While France has been conducting scores of airstrikes against the Islamic State in Iraq, it had been bombing inside Syria only sparingly, wary of inadvertently strengthening the hand of President Bashar al-Assad by killing his enemies.
But after militants with AK-47 rifles and suicide explosives vests shattered the peaceful revelry of Paris on Friday night, killing dozens of civilians in restaurants and at a concert hall, France seemed intent on sending a clear message of its determination to curb the Islamic State and its ability to carry out attacks outside the territory it controls.

The previous reluctance to hit ISIS in Raqqa, in other words, reflected the fact that the Syrian extremists were tacitly supported by the West since 2011, when the “Arab Spring” uprisings were orchestrated to overthrow the governments of Libya, Egypt and Syria. More on the French air strikes on Raqqa:

Twelve aircraft including 10 fighter jets dropped a total of 20 bombs in the biggest air strikes since France extended its bombing campaign against the extremist group to Syria in September, a Defense Ministry statement said. The jets launched from sites in Jordan and the Persian Gulf, in coordination with U.S. forces. . . .
French foreign minister Laurent Fabius said France had the “legitimacy” to take action against ISIS after Friday’s terror attacks in Paris.
Fabius said Sunday on the sidelines of the G20 summit in Turkey that the decision to conduct airstrikes in Raqqa against Islamic State targets was a “political” one and that France had to be “present and active” following Friday’s attacks.

Ace of Spades points out that Raqqa is “a city the jihadis have kept in reasonably good shape . . . a showcase city . . . their military headquarters,” so that the previous failure to target Raqqa would seem rather inexplicable. As I say, however, ISIS was tacitly supported in the effort to overthrow the Assad regime in Syria, which was part of the Obama administration’s “Arab Spring” policy dating back to 2011. That this policy has been a catastrophic failure, in effect arming ISIS terrorists, is something the administration and its former Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton, have been understandably reluctant to admit. Meanwhile, in France, authorities are rounding up the usual suspects:

French police launched more than 150 raids across the country overnight as part of a manhunt in the wake of Paris’s deadly terror attacks, NBC News reported.
French Prime Minister Manuel Valls confirmed the raids to RTL Radio, according to NBC News. . . .
Interior Minister Bernard Cazeneuve said that 23 people had been arrested — while 104 others remained for questioning — over a 48-hour period. He added that guns, bulletproof vests and even a rocket launcher had been seized.
“This is just the beginning,” Cazeneuve said. “The response of France will be total. Those who attack France, we will catch them and we will be unrelenting with them … Terrorists will never destroy the Republic, because the Republic will destroy them.”
Searches took place throughout the country, including in Toulouse, Grenoble, Bobigny and Lyon.

The hunt for the Paris terrorist Salah Abdeslam continues. There were reports this morning that Abdeslam had been cornered by Belgian police in the Brussels suburb of Molenbeek, but officials there said the raid failed to nab him.

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In The Mailbox: 11.16.15

Posted on | November 16, 2015 | Comments Off on In The Mailbox: 11.16.15

— compiled by Wombat-socho


OVER THE TRANSOM
Da Tech Guy: Terror? Murder? No Big Deal As Long As Islamists Are Murdering Jews In Israel
First Street Journal: The Democratic Debate – Candidates Argue Over Who Will Surrender The Fastest
Michelle Malkin: The Myth Of H-1B Job Creation
Twitchy: Time For A Two-State Solution? NYT Reports Belgian Government “Lacks Control Over Neighborhood Linked To Terror”


RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
American Power: Wake Up, Mr. President
American Thinker: Banquet Of Consequences
Conservatives4Palin: Sarah Palin, Donald Trump Meet Up In NYC
Don Surber: A Good Example Of What’s Wrong With Politifact
Jammie Wearing Fools: French Launch Airstrikes In Raqqa, Liberals Immediately Start Whining
Joe For America: Ted Cruz – “Obama Does Not Wish To Defend This Country”
JustOneMinute: Protip On Messaging
Pamela Geller: Muslims Around The World Celebrate The Jihad Victory In Paris
Protein Wisdom: Why Are We Still Playing The “Muslims Are Not Terrorists” Game?
Shot In The Dark: Pique And Choose
STUMP: A Week Of Bad Pension Ideas – Pile On The Hedge Funds, We’ll Make It Up In Expectations!
The Gateway Pundit: Obama Administration Takes Credit For Kurdish Gains Against ISIS, But Still Won’t Arm Them
The Jawa Report: A Common Link – The Paris Attacks And The BDS Movement
The Lonely Conservative: Are These Eighteen US Mayors Still Welcoming Syrian Refugees?
This Ain’t Hell: Ignoring The Realities Of Terrorism
Weasel Zippers: FBI On High Alert After Weapons Stolen From Worcester Armory
Megan McArdle: Why Democrats Fixate On Glass-Steagall
Mark Steyn: Cool Civilizational Death Wish Goes Viral!


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Category: Linkagery

Rule 5 Sunday: Post-Veterans Day Recovery Edition

Posted on | November 16, 2015 | 6 Comments

— compiled by Wombat-socho

I have to say, I was pleasantly surprised by the way Las Vegas celebrates Veterans Day. Just about every fast casual restaurant in town has some kind of free food to offer, and a lot of them start handing it out on Monday. It’s not just the Red Robins and Applebees of the world, either; Hooters, McCormick & Schmick’s, and most of the local casinos were dishing up the freebies as well. Probably going to take me a week to work off all the food I stuffed in my face last Wednesday…anyhow, it’s time again for Rule 5 Sunday, where we share the linkagery generously offered by our fellow bloggers as a break from the current cruel misery of this world and its politics. As usual, many of these links are to pics normally considered NSFW, so exercise discretion in your clicking, or an NJP may be the least of your problems. This week’s appetizer is courtesy of Harley Davidson, whose salute to the military included this pic of Marisa Miller in 40s pinup drag.

American Bombshell, indeed!

Politically Incorrect Conservative leads off this week with Veterans Day Rule 5, followed by Goodstuff with Jill St. John, and Ninety Miles from Tyranny has Morning Mistress, Hot Pick – Veterans Day Beauty, and the Veterans Day edition of Girls with Guns. Animal Magnetism chips in with Rule 5 Friday and the Saturday Gingermageddon, The Last Tradition returns with Kristin Cavallari and Brianna Loyd, and First Street Journal proclaims Vive la France!

EBL’s got HedleyHedy Lamarr, Ronda Rousey heading for the Marine Corps Ball, infamous robosexual Amy Schumer, Maria Bartiromo, Alyssa Milano, Wiggy Hillary, the infamous wine ad banned in Australia, Pauley Perrette, and Redheads converting to radical Islam?

A View from the Beach has Sandra Bullock Bombs with Bradley Cooper, Cosplay Friday, Benny Hill Would be so Proud, Wednesday Wakeup, Pumpkin Spice . . ., 18 Year Old Model/Blogger Finds Reality Disappointing, Can the Redskins Deflate Brady’s Patriots?, and Sophia Loren to Hollywood Women: Suck It Up!

American Power returns after a long absence with Kelly Brook, a sneak peek at the SI Swimsuit Issue, Lily Aldridge, Sofia Nikitchuk, India Reynolds, Mayra Suarez, and Monica Sims.

At Soylent Siberia, it’s your morning coffee creamer, Monday Motivationer Soylent Favorite, Tuesday Titillation Perfection, Humpday Hawtness Red Rider, Fursday Fantastic Irene, Latent Lingerie, T-GIF Friday Wave Propagation, and Weekender Wetness.

Proof Positive’s Friday Night Babe is Margot Robbie, his Vintage Babe is Adelle August, Sex in Advertising is covered by Wonderbra, and of course there’s the obligatory 49ers cheerleader. At Dustbury, it’s Connie Stevens and Vicki Vlachakis.

Thanks to everyone for their linkagery, both here and on the FMJRA, where Rule 5 Sunday is once again the most-linked post of the past week! Deadline to submit links to the Rule 5 Wombat mailbox is midnight on Saturday, November 21.

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TERROR MANHUNT: French Authorities Seeking Accomplices of Islamic Killers

Posted on | November 15, 2015 | 78 Comments

 

The perpetrators of Friday’s massacre in Paris have been identified, and the investigation exposes the worldwide menace of Islam:

Police [on Saturday] issued an international arrest warrant for one of three Belgian-born brothers believed to be at the heart of the eight-strong ISIS cell who murdered 132 people in Paris.
French police are hunting 26-year-old Salah Abdeslam, from Brussels, who is accused of renting a Volkswagen Polo used by the suicide bombers who killed 89 people at the Bataclan music venue on Friday.
His brother Ibrahim is believed to have blown himself up during the Paris siege and a third unnamed sibling has been arrested in the Belgian capital.
An official told the Washington Post another of the shooters was Bilal Hadfi, who was from Belgium and had spent time fighting with ISIS in Syria, who also died after detonating his suicide vest during a murderous rampage.
The killer gang, containing a number of Frenchman living in Belgium, two others carrying Syrian passports after sneaking into Europe disguised as migrants and a female accomplice, are believed to have travelled together from Brussels to Paris in rented cars.
Serbian media claims Ahmed Almuhamed, 25, whose Syrian passport was found on the body of a suicide bomber, allegedly blew himself up at the Bataclan concert hall, where at least 89 people were slaughtered on Friday. Two other bombers were said to be carrying fake Turkish passports, it was being reported tonight.
French police have said homegrown terrorist Omar Ismaël Mostefai , 29, from Courcouronnes, Paris, was one of the Bataclan suicide bombers but he is said to have been radicalised by a Brussels-based hate preacher who spoke regularly at his French mosque.

We learn more about the role of “refugees” in the Paris attack:

The [Serbian] newspaper, Blic, claims [Ahmed] Almuhamed arrived with another of the bombers in Europe on the Greek island of Leros on October 3 on his way to Paris. Greek website Protothema have published ferry tickets showing the name of a second man, Mohammed Almuhamed, who could be a relation.
French police are hunting 26-year-old Salah Abdeslam, from Brussels, who is accused of renting a Volkswagen Polo used by the suicide bombers who killed 89 people at the Bataclan music venue on Friday.
His brother Ibrahim is believed to have blown himself up during the Paris siege and a third unnamed sibling has been arrested in the Belgian capital. . . .
Bilal Hadfi, who was from Belgium and had spent time fighting with ISIS in Syria, who also died after detonating his suicide vest during a murderous rampage.
One of the attackers has been named locally as homegrown terrorist Omar Ismaël Mostefai , 29, from Courcouronnes, Paris. The petty criminal was known to police as a radical and identified by the fingerprint on a severed digit found after he detonated his suicide belt. . . .
The disclosure that some may have entered Europe as migrants, which came amid claims of French intelligence failures, inevitably raises new security concerns about the safety of Europe’s borders.
Meanwhile the black Seat Leon used by the terrorists who murdered diners outside the Casa Nostra pizza restaurant and the La Belle Équipe cafe has been found abandoned 20 minutes away in Montreuil with three AK-47s with five full magazines and 11 empty ones. . . .
Ahmed Almuhamed is believed to have taken around a month to travel to France posing as a migrant. He had entered Serbia at Miratovce, having crossed the frontier from Macedonia. The newspaper reported that Almuhamed, applied for asylum in Serbia in Presevo before crossing into Croatia and Austria.
Paris prosecutors confirmed that the suspects, all wearing explosive vests, roamed across the French capital in three teams, perpetrating the ‘worst acts of violence’ in the country since the Second World War. Fingerprint records show that two of the terrorists had arrived in the EU as refugees through Greece.

UPDATE: Read what Pamela Geller wrote:

Despite all this horror, the European Union elites are bringing into Europe millions of these savages. I have warned for years about this coming jihad. For doing so, I was attacked, smeared, and marginalized. We were right about it all, and yet still my colleagues and I are blacklisted. Hundreds are dead, and the war has just begun. We did everything in our power to save lives. But the political, media, and academic elites aligned with the savages. . . .
This is a world war. I have exposed hundreds of Islamic State social postings which name names and provide addresses and photos of U.S. soldiers here in the States, urging American Muslims to slaughter our boys and girls.
Right now, nothing is being done to stop jihad recruiting in U.S. mosques, even as several hundred young Muslims from the U.S. have gone to wage jihad for the Islamic State. And now they seek to wage jihad here at home.

UPDATE II: More on the terrorists who struck Paris:

French authorities have said seven suicide attackers died in Friday’s carnage and are hunting another believed to be “directly involved” in the bloodshed. Belgian authorities have arrested seven other men in connection with the attacks. . . .
Omar Ismaïl Mostefai was the first attacker named by French authorities. The 29-year-old is of Algerian heritage and grew up in Courcouronnes, just south of Paris, where he picked up a criminal record for petty offences. . . .
French intelligence took note of Mostafei when he began spending time at a mosque with radical links in 2010, but they lost track of him in 2013, when he may have travelled to Syria, the Washington Post reported. . . .
Salah’s brother Ibrahim Abdeslam was identified by prosecutors as the man who rented a Seat vehicle used in the attacks. He carried out the suicide attack at the Comptoir Voltaire cafe. He was 31.
A third Abdeslam brother, who has not been named, is believed to have been among seven people arrested on Saturday in the Molenbeek-Saint-Jean district of Brussels, suspected of being connected to the attacks.

Also, speaking to CNN, French senator Nathalie Goulet said that the suspect on the run is most probably the bomb-maker and is one of the three brothers thought to have been involved in the attacks. “With such heavy material, they need a professional.” The New York Times reports:

The carefully coordinated attacks on Friday night, which killed at least 129 people and which are believed to be the work of the Islamic State, increasingly appear to have involved extensive planning by a network of men with sophisticated weapons who plotted their attack from outside the country. . . .
French officials initially described eight attackers, but on Saturday night said that only seven had died — six by blowing themselves up and one in a shootout with police. . . .
The Salah brothers lived in Molenbeek, an impoverished section of Brussels that is mostly populated by immigrants from the Arab world and that has been linked to violence. “We don’t have control of the situation in Molenbeek at present,” [Belgium’s Interior Minister Jan] Jambon told VRT, a television channel.

Having surrendered control of their borders, by admitting many thousands of Arab immigrants, now Belgian officials are forced to admit they “don’t have control” over parts of their own capital city. It is in these neighborhoods — “no-go zones” that are effectively off-limits to non-Muslims, including police — that this attack on France was planned and organized. But you will be denounced as a “racist” if you call attention to this danger, because liberals always think it is better for innocent citizens to be murdered by terrorists than for any Muslim immigrant to have his feelings hurt.

(Via Memeorandum.)

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FMJRA 2.0: Close But No Cigar

Posted on | November 14, 2015 | 1 Comment

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Rule 5 Sunday: The Hearts of Space
Regular Right Guy
Politically Incorrect Conservative
Proof Positive
Ninety Miles from Tyranny
A View from the Beach
Batshit Crazy News

OK, If #BlackLivesMatter Affects SEC Football, We Have a Serious Problem
Politically Incorrect Conservative
Regular Right Guy
The Camp of the Saints
Batshit Crazy News

Reasons to Home School Your Kids
Regular Right Guy
First Street Journal
GayPatriot

Our Moral Superiors™
Regular Right Guy
First Street Journal
Batshit Crazy News

FMJRA 2.0: After The Gun Show
Regular Right Guy
The Pirate’s Cove
A View from the Beach
Batshit Crazy News

The Godless Men at Yale
Regular Right Guy
The Camp of the Saints
The Daily Drift
Batshit Crazy News

In The Mailbox: 11.09.15
Proof Positive
Batshit Crazy News

‘Systemic Racism,’ Anarchy and Incipient Totalitarianism at University of Missouri
Regular Right Guy
That Mr. G Guy
Batshit Crazy News

Amanda Marcotte: College Kids Are ‘Under Assault From Reactionary Forces’
Regular Right Guy
Batshit Crazy News

In The Mailbox: 11.12.15
Batshit Crazy News

A Fine Thumbnail 1984
Batshit Crazy News

Queer Vegan Witch Accuses Radical Feminists of ‘Anti-Trans Violence’
Batshit Crazy News

Well, That Didn’t Take Long
Regular Right Guy

Late Night With In The Mailbox: 11.10.15
Regular Right Guy

Editorial Assist For Mizzou Prostesters
Hogewash
Batshit Crazy News

Friday Fiction: 100 Word Challenge
Batshit Crazy News

In The Mailbox: 11.13.15
Batshit Crazy News

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

Thought Experiment On Fixing US & ME
Batshit Crazy News


Top linkers this week:

  1.  Batshit Crazy News (16)
  2.  Regular Right Guy (12)

Thanks to everyone for their linkagery!


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

Posted on | November 14, 2015 | 101 Comments

 

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

Posted on | November 14, 2015 | 15 Comments

 

ISIS released a video overnight claiming responsibility for the violence that brought bloodshed to the streets of Paris. The death toll in Friday’s terrorist attack is now reported at 127; earlier reports had said more than 150 were killed. The New York Post reports:

Islamic State claimed responsibility on Saturday for attacks that killed 127 people in Paris, saying it sent fighters strapped with suicide bombing belts and carrying machine guns to various locations in the heart of the capital. . . .
Islamic State earlier on Saturday distributed an undated video threatening to attack France if bombings of its fighters continued.
The group’s foreign media arm, Al-Hayat Media Centre, made threats through several militants who called on French Muslims to carry out attacks.
“As long as you keep bombing you will not live in peace. You will even fear traveling to the market,” said one of the militants, identified as Abu Maryam the Frenchman. . . .
The militants, who appeared to be French citizens, sat cross-legged in a group wearing fatigues and holding weapons in what appeared to be a wooded area.
The video showed the militants burning passports.
“Indeed you have been ordered to fight the infidel wherever you find him – what are you waiting for? There are weapons and cars available and targets ready to be hit,” said Abu Maryam.
Another militant, identified as Abu Salman the Frenchman, said: “Even poison is available, so poison the water and food of at least one of the enemies of Allah.”
“Terrorize them and do not allow them to sleep due to fear and horror,” he added.

UPDATE: CNN reports:

A Syrian passport was found near the body of an attacker outside the Stade de France, according to a police source, CNN affiliate France 2 said. Multiple local media are reporting the same.
Also on Saturday, French Interior Minister Bernard Cazeneuve said the state of emergency in France could mean restrictions on people’s movements, among other measures. Border controls were tightened as of Friday, and the gendarmerie paramilitary police are on heightened alert, he said. . . .
[An ISIS statement] said eight militants wearing explosive belts and armed with machine guns attacked precisely selected areas in the French capital.
In addition to the people killed, 180 others were injured, according to the Paris Police Prefecture. More than half of them are in critical condition. . . .
In the chaotic aftermath of the attacks, there was no clarity on the number of casualties.
Earlier, the Interior Ministry put the death toll at 153 people Friday, but a day later, the Paris police lowered it to 128 people. . . .
Most of the deaths were inside the Bataclan concert hall, where a witness said gunmen stormed in, firing rifles and shouting, “Allah akbar.” At least 80 people died in the attack there.

UPDATE II: The New York Times reports:

President François Hollande, addressing the nation from the Élysée Palace, said the attacks on Paris were an “act of war” and blamed the Islamic State.
“It is an act of war that was committed by a terrorist army, a jihadist army, Daesh, against France,” Mr. Hollande said, using an Arabic acronym for the Islamic State group.
“It is an act of war that was prepared, organized and planned from abroad, with complicity from the inside, which the investigation will help establish,” he added.
“It is an act of absolute barbarity,” he said. The toll, he said, was “at this time 127 dead and many wounded.”
He said that he had proclaimed three days of national mourning and that all necessary measures would be taken to protect French citizens and territory. “The army and the interior security forces are mobilized at the highest level of their possibilities,” he said. . . .
“France, because it was foully, disgracefully and violently attacked, will be unforgiving with the barbarians from Daesh,” he said. France, he said, will act within the law but with “all the necessary means, and on all terrains, inside and outside, in coordination with our allies, who are they themselves targeted by this terrorist threat.”

UPDATE III: Donald Douglas at American Power:

Angela Merkel’s Future in Doubt as She Faces Coup
After Her Own Party Criticises Asylum Policies

There can be no doubt that an open-borders policy toward “refugees,” which Merkel and some other European leaders had advocated, will become a political liability after the Paris attacks.

UPDATE IV: Nine hours before the terrorists struck in Paris, in an interview with ABC’s George Stephanopoulos on Good Morning America, President Obama claimed ISIS has been “contained” and denied that the Islamic group was “gaining strength.”

UPDATE V:

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

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