“Flagged,” but not stopped. Just too many jihadis for French authorities to keep track of them all.
“Paris attacks: Assailant previously flagged by police for Islamic extremist links,” Associated Press, November 14, 2015:
One of the bombers in the wave of deadly Paris attacks that killed 127 people Friday night was a young Frenchman flagged for links with Islamic extremism, police said.
As he himself would be the first to tell you, he wasn’t a “Frenchman” at all. He hated France.
Officials said the man was involved in the rampage and hostage-taking during a rock show at a Paris concert hall, one of the six sites targeted in a series of gun and bomb attacks launched in rapid succession by at least eight attackers.
Gunmen targeted Paris cafés, detonated suicide bombs near France’s national stadium and killed hostages inside the concert hall. More than 200 people were injured, dozens critically.
Earlier, police officials said at least one suicide bomber who targeted another site, France’s national stadium, was found to have a Syrian passport. Meanwhile, local Belgian media reported that Belgian police arrested a man in Brussels believed to be linked to the Paris attacks….
Speaking to the country Saturday, Hollande said the attacks were “committed by a terrorist army, the Islamic State group, a jihadist army, against France, against the values that we defend everywhere in the world, against what we are: A free country that means something to the whole planet.”
He said France “will be merciless toward the barbarians of the Islamic State group.” France “will act by all means anywhere, inside or outside the country.”…
Merciless? What, you’ll cut their welfare benefits or something?

Everyone Else says
Sure he was a Frenchman. France is a province of the caliphate.
Westman says
Isn’t it preposterous that the Media doesn’t know that Muslims are instructed by Allah(Muhammad) to have allegiance only to Allah and the Ummah?
There are no patriotic “French” Muslims in France among the devout. There may be French “lapsed Muslims”, however, among the devout there are only Muslims living in France. As a previous “French” Muslim poster wrote, he wanted his own autonomous area, or country, ruled by sharia, in France.
Jeremiah says
We can prevent further attacks by raiding mosques, jailing Imams and identifying those who teach the Koran. Then we don’t need to respond, we don’t need to fight it and we don’t need to defeat it. There is no reason for people to continue to live in fear except for Political Correctness. There is no need to fight all muslims, only those who object to the closure of mosques. There is no need to kill on a large scale, only those who are willing to defend Islam. It is Islam and its teaching which is our enemy! All this talk about looking for terrorists is nonsense. All this fear is misplaced. Only Policical Correctness can kill us.
dlbrand says
Well said, Jeremiah.
Angemon says
Why was he allowed to freely roam the streets?
? says
I concur, and while we’re at it lets add forced feeding pork and the touching of pigs and pig laced bullets to make an example of Muslim terrorists. Tnen let one go to tell the tale and spread fear among the heathens like a certain US general supposedly did. Or maybe just a simple noose laced in pig products.
SpiritOf1683 says
A young Frenchman? Funny he wasn’t called Jean, Philippe or Pierre.
SpiritOf1683 says
Christians, Jews, Hindus, Sikhs, Jains, Shintos, Buddhists, Baluchis, Yazidis, Athiests and Agnostics v Muslims is more like it.
Undaunted says
Just finished this today; how to not get shot up in what’s a pretty easily set-up massacre…
http://freemendo.typepad.com/undaunted/2015/11/my-entry.html
Jay Boo says
BURN A QUR”AN
Or merely threaten to burn the ISIS ‘holy book’, the Qur’an and not just the police but the Prez of the US and the evil hag of head-bumping excuses, Hillary will both wig out.
Jay Boo says
Let’s make every November 13 and Sept 11 and every other day of hate crimes by the filth of Islam from Mumbai to Madrid to London to Nairobi and beyond
BURN A QUR”AN day
Tiredofstupid says
Can’t If we burned a quran for everytime a muslim performed a hate crime, we would have to burn at least one a day(symbolicly for all,) but who has time to burn 27,000 qurans a year? Add in the rapes, FGM, honor killings among their own familys, if everybody burned a quran for every muslim hate crime we’d run out of qurans in a couple of weeks or less and wouldn’t that be nice.
خَليفة says
If you don’t know about this site…. Check it out
http://wikiislam.net/wiki/Main_Page
Renee Atkins says
Hollande said France “will be merciless toward the barbarians of the Islamic State group.” France “will act by all means anywhere, inside or outside the country.”… 11/14/2015
Hollande said “…. Israel should show restraint,” 7/14/2014
dlbrand says
One more instance to add to the steadily-mounting innumerable list attesting to the fact, all too often, all we can do in dealing with the threat followers of Muhammad present to us is wait until we have concrete evidence proving they act on the tenets they align themselves to.
Concrete evidence as we got, witnessed in the tumbling Twin Towers, 9/11.
Concrete evidence as in chunks of concrete cum-airborn-missles secondary to the detonation of the suicide bomber.
dajjal says
The patient has cancer. Instead of administering surgery, radiation and chemotherapy, the doctors are watchfully waiting for the patient’s demise to see what they can do.
THE HINDU says
When potential jihadists have been flagged for extremist actions , my suggestion is that the police should adopt ‘covert extra judicial elimination’, which would prevent such innocent bloodshed. The law and judicial process is not comprehensive enough to deal with the dastardly acts after the event.
We are living in different times. The existing laws,(which require a charge to be prosecuted against an alleged criminal, and the alleged criminal requiring to defend oneself against the charge has a probability of dismissal or acquittal), provide a very weak system for eliminating such bloody acts. These extreme Islamists follow the prescriptions in the quran and hadiths which call for murder of people just because they are non-muslims. All non-muslims and apostates are in mortal danger for no
fault of theirs.
THE HINDU
Tom W Harris says
“Fagged” is more like it, if ya know what I mean (wink wink).
richard courtemanche says
Enough surveillance… those showing a propensity for radical and Jihad activities must be corralled and prosecuted and expulsed. No more tolerance, mosques and other benefits not compatible with the rest of the population.
dajjal says
The ‘slime who knifed up the college classromm out west was on a watchlist. So were several other terrorists. What good is a watchlist?
The criminal justice system is reactive, not proactive. Terrorism is a matter for the military, not the justice system.
First and foremost, identify, locate and remove all enemy fifth columnists from our borders.
Second, kill their leaders. Third: bomb and strafe their funeral processions. Hellfire for the caliph; 30mm cannon for the funeral procession. Repeat until peace and quiet ensue.
dajjal says
You ommittedd untreated tropical parasitic diseases and the real cause: the damnable doctrines of Islam: Allah’s imperatives, threat & promise. 3:151, 8:12,39,57,60,65,67, 9:5,29,38, 39,111,120,123, 33:26,27, 47:4,49:15, 59:2,13, 61:10-13; Sahih Bukhari 1.7.331 & 4.52.220.