UPDATE: Subsequent reports are saying they’re still at large.
Their work is done: the mainstream media is in full capitulation mode, eagerly submitting to Sharia restrictions on the freedom of speech. Their mission is accomplished.
“Paris Attack Suspect Dead, Two in Custody, U.S. Officials Say,” by Pete Williams, M. Alex Johnson and Jon Schuppe, NBC News, January 7, 2015:
One of the suspects in the Paris attack on Charlie Hebdo magazine has been killed and the two others are in custody, two senior U.S. counterterrorism officials told NBC News on Wednesday.
Authorities earlier had identified the three men as Said Kouachi and Cherif Kouachi, both French and in their early 30s, and Hamyd Mourad, 18, whose nationality wasn’t immediately clear.
One of the officials, who spoke on condition of anonymity because they weren’t authorized to publicly discuss the investigation, told The Associated Press that the men were linked to a Yemeni terrorist network. Cherif Kouachi was convicted in 2008 of terrorism charges for helping funnel fighters to Iraq’s insurgency and sentenced to 18 months in prison.
Twelve people were killed in the attack by gunmen, armed with AK-47s, who attacked the offices of Charlie Hebdo, a publication that has enraged Muslims for publishing cartoons depicting the Prophet Muhammad.
On their way in, they killed a maintenance worker, then stormed into an editorial meeting, where they killed eight journalists.
A source familiar with the investigation told NBC News that the men targeted those magazine employees who had created or published cartoons showing Muhammad — asking for their victims by name. They executed editor and cartoonist Stephane Charbonnier, popularly known as Charb; Bernard Maris, a Bank of France economist who was a columnist for the magazine; and three cartoonists.
A security officer and a guest were also gunned down. As they fled, they killed a second police officer. Eleven other people were injured, four of them critically, officials said….
Angemon says
Good. I’m glad I was wrong on this one.
gravenimage says
I’m glad they killed or captured these Scum Jihadists. But that one Jihadist had *already* been waging Jihad and French soil and free to do so again is appalling—but hardly surprising.
gravenimage says
That should, of course, have been “on French soil”.
umbra says
French security apparatus and government (all branches under the supervision of the eu) are sport fishing with these terrorists, catch then release and then maybe catch them again. Meanwhile, these killer trouts return with Kalashnikovs (knives, cars and whatever) to redecorate French public sceneries and populace. Truly hopeless – even imbeciles know how to protect themselves.
Sam says
It is so disgusting that in a conservative talk radio show this morning, 98.9 the Answer, there were people advocating that self censorship might be necessary to protect lives nowadays. If this is not the end of freedom in America, what is?
cs says
Why should we avoid them coming to Europe? They are sooooooo respectful.
jay says
And we have another ‘ridewithyou’ victim card playing again: #VoyageAvecMoi
jay says
Everyone should tweet using that calling out the utter ridiculousness and lack of empathy for the actual victims.
dumbledoresarmy says
No: create a *rival* meme with a picture of the four murdered cartoonists and a hashtag slogan “I’lldrawwithyou”, or perhaps “I’lldrawforyou” (this last implying that since the cartoonists are now dead and cannot draw any longer, others must take up the pen and draw the satirical cartoons on their behalf and in their place).
gravenimage says
This was disgusting in Australia, and it is disgusting in France. It is not Muslims who are in danger from civilized Westerners, but civilized Infidels being slaughtered by ravening Mohammedans. *Ugh*.
It may not be intended as such, but this is nothing but slander of the victims.
Matthieu Baudin says
All too true gravenimage, there are critically ill undergoing surgery at this very moment and this attention seeking decoy is paraded about to take our attention away from a momentous and cruel attack upon a dozen of our most articulate citizens and a half dozen brave security personnel.
dumbledoresarmy says
You are French?
Deepest condolences. And although those four cartoonists were probably staunch atheists to a man, I will pray for the comforting of their families, friends and colleagues, and for a full recovery for all who were wounded.
Something else I will say. When I first read the story, my reaction was not so much grief, as sheer fury.
On top of all the other things that have happened this year – the brazen kidnapping and rapes and enslavement of girls in Nigeria and in Iraq and Syria, the ghastly murder of four rabbis in the synagogue in Jerusalem (and the stabbing attacks and the kidnap and murder of three Jewish boys and the running over of Jews with vehicles), the attempted attack on the Canadian parliament and the attack on Canadian soldiers and the attack on policemen in NYC, and the attack on the Lindt chocolate shop in the exact *centre* of the city of Sydney, for some reason this murder of four French cartoonists in the heart of Paris is just. too. much.
So: BE ANGRY! Let yourself be ANGRY.
White hot and wholly rational fury is what should be boiling up all across France at the moment.
For a sample of what I mean by fury, read this article here. It’s called “The Poet Versus the Prophet: Standing UP To Totalitarian Islam”, and it’s by one Mark Goldblatt. It’s about another satirist, the New York poet Allen Ginsberg, and how he reacted to the news of the assassination order that was placed upon Salman Rushdie. I think you might like to try translating it into French, and circulating it.
http://reason.com/archives/2010/05/14/the-poet-versus-the-prophet
The Poet Versus the Prophet
On standing up to totalitarian Islam
Mark Goldblatt | May 14, 2010
Excerpt, to give an idea of the flavour:
“Soon after news of the fatwa broke, Ginsberg and his assistant climbed into the back seat of a taxi in Manhattan.
“After a glance at the cab driver’s name, Ginsberg politely inquired if he was a Muslim.
“When the cabbie replied that he was, Ginsberg asked him what he thought about the death sentence on Rushdie.
“The cabbie answered that he thought that Rushdie’s book was disrespectful of Islam, and that the Ayatollah had every right to do what he had done.
“At this point, according to his assistant, Ginsberg, one of the gentlest men ever to walk the planet, flew into a rage, screaming at the cabbie as he continued to drive, “Then I shit on your religion! Do you hear me? I shit on Islam! I shit on Muhammad! Do you hear? I shit on Muhammad!”
“Ginsberg demanded that the cabbie pull over. The cabbie complied, and, without paying the fare, Ginsberg and his assistant climbed out. He was still screaming at the cabbie as the car drove off.”
And the author, who is writing in the immediate wake of a (fortunately failed) Muslim attempt to explode a car bomb in Times Square on May Day, also says this:
“Let me ask the question another way: Where’s the rage? Why won’t anyone say in public what Ginsberg said in the back seat of that cab? If Islam justifies, or is understood by millions of Muslims to justify, setting off a bomb in Times Square, then I shit on Islam.”…
“Shahzad’s car bomb was parked in front of the offices of Viacom, the parent company of the Comedy Central, which airs the program South Park. Last month, the creators of South Park decided to poke fun at the Prophet Muhammad—just as they’d poked fun at Moses and Jesus many times in the past. Death threats followed. It’s too early to connect the Times Square bomb plot to the South Park blasphemy, but police have not ruled it out.
“If Shahzad was offended by an animated cartoon and decided to defend the Prophet’s name by killing hundreds of civilians—mothers with their babies in strollers, wide-eyed teenagers in tour groups, husbands and wives out for a night on the town—then I’ll say, along with the poet, I shit on Muhammad.”
That’s anger.
And instead of being dissipated in anything as foolish as riots or vandalism of property, it needs to be channelled laserlike into political action and specific, precise demands, publicly and repeatedly made.
Such as a demand that all Muslim immigration into France be stopped, NOW, and that all Muslims in France who are not yet possessors of citizenship should NEVER receive it, and that all French passport-holding Muslims known to have gone a-jihad to Syria, must be stripped of their citizenship, their passports annulled, and NEVER be let back into France. And that not one more mosque should be built in France; and that every existing mosque be raided, and searched, from top to bottom; and if evidence of anything illegal and/ or seditious/ treasonous is discovered during that search, then the offending mosque gets dynamited and its site bulldozed flat, and the imam or sheikh gets given the boot to the dar al Islam.
No hotheads should rush off to burn down a mosque; instead, the pressure must be piled onto the *authorities* to *investigate* all mosques. A mosque that is found to have an armoury in the basement – or a weapons or drugs or bomb factory – and/ or is found to be stuffed full of counterfeit cash and false passports and / or hardcore kiddie porn and beheading videos is a mosque that no sane French person will mourn if it is *then* bulldozed flat on official orders, any more than one would grieve for the destruction of a gangster’s hideout.
Charli Main says
TV chat show on British Television this afternoon, discussing the Paris murders.
Agitated guest speaking ” We have to take religion out of these horrific murders. These murders are not about religion, they are about oppression. We must not make people afraid to be Muslim” !!!!!!
Ashley says
Has this been confirmed?
It is my understanding that the 18-year-old surrendered but the two brothers are still on the loose…
Ernie says
That’s my understanding too Ashley , maybe somebody can give some explanation ?
Ashley says
Hey Ernie…
I don’t think this is quite over yet…
The breaking news feed that I’m following out of Paris says the Kouachi boys are still on the loose…
Yes, if someone can please link that the three have been accounted for, please post.
Ernie says
Thank you Ashley , NBC got it wrong ” due to conflicting reports today in France “. No , it isn’t over yet .
Ashley says
Fuck!
Pardon my French (no pun intended) but this shit needs to be officially confirmed and clarified.
Are these bastards caught or not?
Ernie says
No Ashley , they are still searching for the Kouachi-brothers . http://www.france24.com/en/livefeed/
Roderick MacUalraig says
LOL
Roderick MacUalraig says
Only laughing at the way you chose to express your frustration.
In case anyone mistook me for laughing at the situation.
Which I’m not.
Which if it were in my hands civilized humans wouldn’t have to worry about a threat to their natural rights another day.
nationalist says
Look who is the wife of Mr. Maris. Who is Al- Manar?
Salah says
“One Charlie Hebdo jihad murderer dead, two in custody”
Two in custody? what for? jail time? they don’t care.
Terrorists do not fear prison. Their jihadis friends will kidnap a french citizen anywhere in the world then ask for their release.
Israel had to release a thousand terrorist to save one IDF soldier, remember?
We must reinstate the death penalty. Problem solved!
Buraq says
These clowns are la crème de la merde! Hope they shoot them dead.
clifford hall says
What I find disgusting about news coverage of responses to this is the repeated references to an ‘attack upon freedom of speech’ as if THAT is really what it’s all about.
Western Canadian says
Since that is very, very large part of what it is all about, your comment is foolish and insulting.
Roderick MacUalraig says
To my old war leader… of British, Italian, French, but American Navy all the way….
If your reading this… Your men are ready to muster for the fight whenever you order it.
God bless you Sir/
R/ Napoli 01. – 05.
Roderick MacUalraig says
Torture this fucker for information, and then kill him.
duh_swami says
If the 18 year old was killed, who killed him and how did that happen?
Or did he turn himself in which I think is possible, but unlikely…These jihadists were together the last time they were seen…This operation was too well organized to not have a good get away plan. They had a place to go and it wasn’t some back alley where they hide behind trash cans. Someone(s) are helping them. They may even have been spirited out of the country by now.
Well, soon the dust will settle and the facts will be known. Until then where they are is speculation.
Bernd Meyer says
The german dhimmi government tries desperately to calm down the growing resistance among the german people against islamization. But they wont be successful. Last monday there were about 20.000 people at PEGIDA in DRESDEN, marching peacefully together against islamization of Germany and Europe. “Times they are a changing”, as Mr. Dylan used to sing.
Truth Seeker says
This sort of Terrorist Attacks likely to increase in Numbers, because the rise of Terrorism is proportional to growth of Islamic population. As on today European Countries competing each other for appeasing Muslims. Many opine even the Muslim Refugee Migration is Conspiracy Jihad. And the Target is World Caliphat.
If Europe, get satisfied by the Condemnation on this sort of Activity by the Trojan Horses, it will be Blunder and the day Present Europe will change to Eurabia will not be far.
John says
They are not in custody. They are still at large. The official is full of shit.
Lenin-McCarthy says
Contrary to what the other reports are says, the two are still at large and the 18 year old turned himself in.
FatherJon says
Doesn’t say much for US counter terrorism experts. This report is incorrect. As of the 9th January, the two main Kouach brothers are still on the run, being tracked by thousands of French police and soldiers in a wood in northern France. The young guy handed himself in yesterday.
Angemon says
As of know, they’re barricaded in a factory. With 3 hostages.