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posted by n1 on Saturday November 14 2015, @01:00AM   Printer-friendly

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 were killed near the Bataclan arts centre, where up to 60 people are being held hostage. Explosions and gunfire are reported.

Three people were killed in an attack near the Stade de France, with some reports suggesting a suicide blast.

Paris authorities have urged people to stay indoors.

Military personnel are being deployed across Paris.

http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2015/11/13/455943961/violence-reported-in-paris
http://www.cnn.com/2015/11/13/world/paris-shooting/index.html

Update #1 [BBC updates]:

Scores of people have been killed in multiple gun and bomb attacks in Paris

At least 100 people are reported to have died inside the Bataclan concert hall in central Paris

Others died in attacks near the Stade de France, where France were playing Germany, and at restaurants

France has declared a national state of emergency and has closed its borders

Paris residents have been asked to stay indoors and military personnel are being deployed across the city

[...] Reuters. quoting an un-named official at Paris City Hall, says the current death toll in Paris is around 140.

Update #2:

According to the Paris prosecutor, of the four assailants who died during the sidge at the Bataclan, three committed suicide by detonating explosive vests. The prosecutor has warned that some of their accomplices may "still be on the loose".

[...] Here is what French president François Hollande told reporters outside the Bataclan concert hall just now: "To all those who have seen these awful things, I want to say we are going to lead a war which will be pitiless. Because when terrorists are capable of committing such atrocities they must be certain that they are facing a determined France, a united France, a France that is together and does not let itself be moved, even if today we express infinite sorrow."


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  • (Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Saturday November 14 2015, @04:12AM

    by Runaway1956 (2926) Subscriber Badge on Saturday November 14 2015, @04:12AM (#263038) Journal

    Isis/Isil/Daesh has far more than 10,000 rabid terrorists at it's command. I prefer the term Daesh, because more rational Muslims recognize that Daesh are a bunch of pretenders. Although I'm not a linguist, despite the fact that I speak no Arabic or Farsi, I'm aware that Daesh is the derogatory form of Isis or Isil. In effect, more rational Muslims are calling them heretics, apostate, swine, and worse. But, the fact remains that Daesh tens of thousands of swine at their command. They have overrun large parts of two countries, and they are flexing their muscles in yet more countries. A mere ten thousand militants couldnt' accomplish what Daesh has done.

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  • (Score: 2) by Phoenix666 on Saturday November 14 2015, @12:42PM

    by Phoenix666 (552) on Saturday November 14 2015, @12:42PM (#263206) Journal

    Runaway, even if they had 10,000,000 terrorists, which they don't, it'd still be less than 1% of all the muslims in the world. Do all Christians in the world deserve scorn and carpet bombing because Westboro Baptist church is running around vomiting hatred on everyone? Wouldn't you think that it's a little over the top to tar all Christians with the same brush because radical evangelical Christians have assassinated abortion doctors and bombed clinics? Is it mete to excoriate all Jews because a bunch of whackadoodle orthodox men were throwing rocks at a bus full of girls recently because they were daring to try to go to school?

    And let's indulge in a little candor here: The United States helped manufacture the pricks in ISIS with the "War of Choice," which everybody said was a bad fucking idea to begin with, and which was ignored because Bush and Cheney wanted to give themselves a big oil payday. The US further shaped the ISIS guys by doing execrable stuff like Abu Ghraib.

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    • (Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Saturday November 14 2015, @12:54PM

      by Runaway1956 (2926) Subscriber Badge on Saturday November 14 2015, @12:54PM (#263210) Journal

      Phoenix, I can almost justify nuking both Mecca and the Vatican, for the same reasons. Bomb them, then jeer at all the "believers". "God doesn't give a damn, not for his capital, not for his innocents, not for his believers."

      But, you will probably admit that the Vatican is a less virulent and less violent threat than Mecca is, today.