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Al-Qaeda-In-Yemen Claims Paris Attack Was "Vengeance", Mocks Western Leaders' "Weakness"

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"As for the blessed Battle of Paris, we ... claim responsibility for this operation as vengeance for the Messenger of God," said Nasser bin Ali al-Ansi, a leader of the Yemeni branch of al Qaeda (AQAP) in a video recording posted on YouTube. As Reuters reports, this was the first time that a group officially claimed responsibility for the attack. The group also mocked the 'unity' rally in Paris on Sunday, saying the shock on display showed feebleness: "look at how they gathered, rallied and supported each other; strengthening their weakness and dressing their wounds," it said of Western leaders who attended the event.

 

As Bloomberg reports, the top leader of al-Qaeda’s branch in Yemen (AQAP) claimed responsibility for the deadly attack on the offices of satirical weekly Charlie Hebdo in Paris.

A black flag was featured in the al-Qaeda video, titled “the blessed battle of Paris” and released by its media arm, al Malahem Media.

 

In a video message posted on social media today, Nasr bin Ali Alanesi said the Jan. 7 attack was in response to cartoons depicting Prophet Muhammad.

 

“Congratulations to you, O Ummah of Islam, for this vengeance,” he said, referring to the worldwide Muslim community. “This is France that has taken part in all of America’s crimes. This is France that has committed crimes in Mali and the Maghreb. This is France that is supporting the extermination of Muslims in central Africa.”

 

The rampage at the magazine by brothers Cherif and Said Kouachi left 12 people dead. “We clarify to the ummah that the one who chose the target, laid the plan, financed the operation, and appointed its emir, is the leadership of the organization,” Alanesi said.

And as Reuters additionally notes, AQAP mocked a big solidarity rally in Paris on Sunday for the victims, saying the shock on display showed feebleness.

"Look at how they gathered, rallied and supported each other; strengthening their weakness and dressing their wounds," it said of Western leaders who attended the event.

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The purported claim of responsibility puts a fresh spotlight on a group often cited by Western officials as al Qaeda's most dangerous branch. AQAP has recently focused on fighting enemies at home such as government forces and Shi'ite rebels, but says that it still aims to carry out attacks abroad.

 

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Wed, 01/14/2015 - 15:10 | 5661204 LawsofPhysics
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The CIA really needs to get better script writers.

Wed, 01/14/2015 - 15:11 | 5661217 NotApplicable
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I don't think it really matters anymore.

I'm guessing that Mr. TV Guy is gonna get a raise from Langely, though.

Wed, 01/14/2015 - 15:13 | 5661227 hedgeless_horseman
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I am glad the USA is making war against Yemen, after all they did against us.

Wed, 01/14/2015 - 15:13 | 5661236 Ignatius
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Even the humor is painful these days.

Wed, 01/14/2015 - 15:35 | 5661377 CH1
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"The Battle of Paris"???

And this is an "enemy" people are supposed to take seriously?

Are people THAT stupid?

LoP's comment is right - they need better writers for this bullshit.

Wed, 01/14/2015 - 15:50 | 5661467 TerminalDebt
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Just drone that raghead already

Wed, 01/14/2015 - 16:51 | 5661750 t0mmyBerg
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yes.  mr Nasser bin Ali al-Ansi sing along with me "here comes the drone, do do do do here comes the drone, its alright"

Wed, 01/14/2015 - 15:49 | 5661469 pods
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Hey Tyler, why not run the story of the Israeli newspaper that cut Merkel out of the free speech march. It's a hoot.

http://www.wral.com/israel-paper-cuts-merkel-from-paris-march-photo-for-...

"Including a picture of a woman into something so sacred, as far as we are concerned, it can desecrate the memory of the martyrs and not the other way around," he said.

Seems someone else in that part of the world has a problem with "free speech."

pods

Wed, 01/14/2015 - 16:06 | 5661555 Barnaby
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Free speech is haggling over a diamond. Anything more and you have a knock on the door.

~ Warsaw ghetto rhyme (transliterated)

Wed, 01/14/2015 - 23:41 | 5663373 StychoKiller
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"May the fleas of a thousand camels infest their armpits!"

French retort:  "I fart in your general direction!"

Wed, 01/14/2015 - 15:17 | 5661267 BLOTTO
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1)      Faked shooting of injured police officer with an AK-47: no blood, nothing. His brain should have been scattered and splattered everywhere!,

2) Terrorists leave behind their ID??  You believe this?? The terrorist remembered to pick up the shoe outside the passenger door before he got in but somehow dropped his ID after they abandoned the car?

3) After a successful attack with an easy get away, they abandon their car and hijack another, and then hole themselves up in a printing press building in Dammartin-en-Goele and are reported as saying, before they were killed, that they wanted to be martyrs. You couldn't script this any better.

4) Hayat Boumeddienne somehow stealthily escapes with the hostages as they are running from the grocery store unnoticed amongst the chaos after the Amedy Couliably is shot and killed. The authorities have NO idea where she currently is.

5) Police Commissioner commits suicide in his office while preparing a report of the attack. How convenient and timely. There was a media blackout of this story. Why? Not relevant? This in itself is suppression of free speech. N'est pas Charlie?

 

http//henrymakow.com/


 

Wed, 01/14/2015 - 15:28 | 5661303 blabam
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Yes...  the whole thing was fake! Accept the killings of the reporters and security of course. Also: all the Jihadi attacks in Syria are fake and non would ever travel back home and shoot some people. The government allowing it to happen would be a more realistic theory with them being watched and all. Actually it's the best because we can blame .gov and Islam. 

Wed, 01/14/2015 - 16:13 | 5661580 Analyse2
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@BLOTTO

"Hayat Boumeddienne somehow stealthily escapes"

The lone remaining suspect wanted in connection with a terrorism spree -- Hayat Boumeddiene -- entered Turkey on January 2, a Turkish prime ministry source told CNN Saturday.

Turkish police have tracked her movements, according to the source

Boumeddiene is believed to have left for Turkey "of course to reach Syria" at the beginning of the year, according to a French source close to the nation's security services.

It means Boumeddiene was not in France at the time of Thursday's deadly shooting of a policewoman in Paris, as authorities originally believed.

Wed, 01/14/2015 - 16:38 | 5661694 Stumpy4516
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Is Yemen one of the countries where China has gained a solid foothold economicaly?  I do not know but if it is this is sure part of the false flag intent.  To give the US/Massod and excuse to move more military into Yemen and conduct covert operations to oust the Chinese.

Wed, 01/14/2015 - 16:55 | 5661783 WTFUD
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Yes Blotto
Even Spielberg would blush at that script.

Wed, 01/14/2015 - 21:53 | 5662981 mendolover
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With their data base 'they' probably can print up a fake ID for any one of us.

Wed, 01/14/2015 - 15:22 | 5661302 McMolotov
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Ye-men! Oh leave me alone, you know
Ye-men! Oh Habib, get off the phone, I gotta
Ye-men! I gotta straighten my face
This motherfucking drone just put my spine out of place

Wed, 01/14/2015 - 15:54 | 5661487 Groundhog Day
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who was it that said we have a 5-7 year plan to have a war in iraq, syria, yemen, a few other countries with the grand finale being iran?  his name escapes me

Wed, 01/14/2015 - 16:10 | 5661568 McMolotov
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General Wesley Clark.

Wed, 01/14/2015 - 16:20 | 5661581 BLOTTO
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Not sure, but imo, the great conflict will be in the Middle East.

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'They' want to build the 3rd Temple on the Temple Mount that has been mentioned for centuries in ancient scripts/documents. In order to do that, they need to 'remove' the al-Aqsa Mosque and the Dome of the Rock.

Those will probably be destroyed during the war - and then they erect the 3rd Temple and usher in our new 'god'...except of course, we will be duped/hoodwinked all over again.

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You think its shit now - Then it gets really bad...

 

Wed, 01/14/2015 - 15:13 | 5661229 KnuckleDragger-X
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I'm pretty sure this is freestyle ego stroking from the bit players in the passion play....

Wed, 01/14/2015 - 16:35 | 5661673 OceanX
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Yes, if  Al-Qaeda were really enemies of the west, they would want peace to break out...

Wed, 01/14/2015 - 18:29 | 5662203 sgt_doom
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This dood Nasser is the number 2 guy in the Yemeni branch of al Qaeda (AQAP), right?

I mean, they also red mist the #2 dood with the Hellfire missile from the drone, right?

Nasser, formerly #2 dood with . . . .

Wed, 01/14/2015 - 18:31 | 5662209 sgt_doom
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This is the Number Two guy with the Yemeni branch of al Qaeda (AQAP), right?

I mean, they always red mist the Number Two dood with the Hellfire missiles from the drone, right?

Nasser, formerly Number Two with . . . .

Wed, 01/14/2015 - 15:12 | 5661220 Ignatius
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Oh, yeah, I believe this confession...

/s

Paul Craig Roberts:  http://www.paulcraigroberts.org/2015/01/13/charlie-hebdo-paul-craig-robe...

Wed, 01/14/2015 - 15:13 | 5661237 freewolf7
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Reminds me of Ben Kingsley in Iron Man 3.

Wed, 01/14/2015 - 17:00 | 5661810 WTFUD
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Reminds me i got to put the rubbish out.

Wed, 01/14/2015 - 15:13 | 5661228 magnetosphere
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al qaeda +1.  isis, your move

Wed, 01/14/2015 - 15:12 | 5661231 Intelligence_In...
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Masterminds!  Al-Qaeda is full of them.

Wed, 01/14/2015 - 15:14 | 5661252 lakecity55
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"Pinky and The Brain."

Wed, 01/14/2015 - 15:22 | 5661294 moonman
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Masterminds are another word that comes up all the time.
You keep hearing about these terrorists masterminds that get killed in the middle east. 
Terrorists masterminds.
Mastermind is sort of a lofty way to describe what these guys do, don't you think?
They're not masterminds.
"OK, you take bomb, right? And you put in your backpack. And you get on bus and you blow yourself up. Alright?"
"Why do I have to blow myself up? Why can't I just:"
"Who's the fucking mastermind here? Me or you?

Wed, 01/14/2015 - 15:22 | 5661306 moonman
Wed, 01/14/2015 - 15:13 | 5661234 Stoploss
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Will this make it on the documentary of ' when false flags go horribly wrong '  episode 2, or 3??

Wed, 01/14/2015 - 15:15 | 5661247 lakecity55
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Air Drop 1000 copies of the newspaper onto AQ HQ in Yemen.

Wed, 01/14/2015 - 16:09 | 5661565 Barnaby
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Looks from satellite like a pretty sturdy roof. Mythbusters already did it.

Wed, 01/14/2015 - 20:36 | 5662692 Tzanchan
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covered in lard.....

Wed, 01/14/2015 - 15:18 | 5661250 JustObserving
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Who ordered the attack against Charlie Hebdo?

by Thierry Meyssan


The strategy of "the clash of civilizations" was designed in Tel Aviv and Washington

The ideology and strategy of the Muslim Brotherhood, Al Qaeda and Daesh does not advocate the creation of civil war in the ’West’, but on the contrary to create it in the "East" and hermetically separate the two worlds. Never has Sayyid Qutb, nor any of his successors, called to provoke confrontation between Muslims and non-Muslims in the territories of the latter.

On the contrary, the strategy of the "clash of civilizations" was formulated by Bernard Lewis for the US National Security Council then popularized by Samuel Huntington not as a strategy of conquest, but as a predictable situation. [1] It aimed to persuade NATO member group populations of the inevitability of confrontation that preventively assumed the form of the "war on terrorism".

It is not in Cairo, Riyadh or Kabul that one advocates the "clash of civilizations", but in Washington and Tel Aviv.

The sponsors of the attack against Charlie Hebdo did not seek to satisfy jihadists or the Taliban, but neo-conservatives or liberal hawks.

http://www.voltairenet.org/article186441.html


Wed, 01/14/2015 - 15:15 | 5661262 ebworthen
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The "Messenger of god" needs vengeance?  Third rate god you got there.

p.s. - A "battle" would involve similarly armed opponents, not the cowardly slaughter of the unarmed.

Wed, 01/14/2015 - 15:25 | 5661312 Zoomorph
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Hah! As though NATO and the Middle East are similarly armed. We have the luxury of using drones and bombers to kill them. Then when they use guerilla tactics against us, some idiots among us call them cowards.... What could be less cowardly than to sacrifice your life to fight for your principles?

Wed, 01/14/2015 - 15:16 | 5661268 lakecity55
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Hahahaha, Frenchies. The areas you cannot send your Police will Expand as Allah wills it! Soon your country will have no wine or cheese! Hahahhaha!"

Wed, 01/14/2015 - 15:56 | 5661282 Zoomorph
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Currently, discontent Westerners think Muslims and other countries in the world are to blame for their dissatisfaction with their lives. After Muslims and all other cultures are defeated, these people will inevitably be forced to look inward and realize that the sickness is in their own culture and they've been waging wars against all the wrong enemies.

Wed, 01/14/2015 - 15:21 | 5661291 Victory_Garden
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Yaaawwwwnnnn...moar intrigue in the stupidity of the farknockers that defend these deceivers and crises actors.

Meanwhile, the shit show must go on!

Wed, 01/14/2015 - 15:21 | 5661297 mattgallis
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Two syndicates that gaurentee death and famine.

 

1) Central Bankers

2) Religion

Wed, 01/14/2015 - 15:21 | 5661298 loregnum
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I can't believe people believe this bullshit.

I also like when people use the word Allah to mock Muslims not knowing Allah is just the Arabic word for God and it is the exact same God from the bible so if you believe in God then you believe in Allah.

Wed, 01/14/2015 - 15:32 | 5661350 Barnaby
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Middle America, right?

Ask any current or recent white Marine what Insha'Allah means and he'll say "If Allah wills it." Ask for the literal translation, and it's "God willing."

Wed, 01/14/2015 - 15:34 | 5661360 joego1
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I guess we had better not draw God either if that is the case.

Wed, 01/14/2015 - 16:27 | 5661636 disabledvet
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Well that's just it isn't it.

 

What's to gain by mocking belief?

Wed, 01/14/2015 - 16:01 | 5661538 dsty
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stupid main stream logic

it is not the same God

try reading what those 2 different books actualy say

not regergitate stupid info

Wed, 01/14/2015 - 15:27 | 5661332 Barnaby
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"In breaking news, via Tw@tter terrorist leader Hans Gruber has demanded the release from captivity all members of the Asian Dawn Movement, the new Provo Front and Liberte de Quebec."

Wed, 01/14/2015 - 15:37 | 5661389 SheepDog-One
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Religious kooks....shame we're all subject to their dark ages lunacy...and we wonder why things are so fucked up!

Wed, 01/14/2015 - 15:46 | 5661449 Colonel Klink
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And by religious kooks, you're referring to EVERYONE who practices a religion, RIGHT?

Wed, 01/14/2015 - 15:36 | 5661391 laser
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We should give them some B-2s, F16s. ICBMs etc. Then they would no longer be terrorists..Someday we will learn that a big stick doesn't work very well against a hornets nest.

Wed, 01/14/2015 - 15:42 | 5661416 Barnaby
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LOL. Ship them all our F-35s and kill two birds with one stone.

Wed, 01/14/2015 - 21:45 | 5662953 mendolover
Wed, 01/14/2015 - 15:45 | 5661436 Colonel Klink
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Reason to attack Yemen now in 3...2...1...

Wed, 01/14/2015 - 15:50 | 5661468 irishlink
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Sky news UK has refused to show the latest cover of Charlie Hebdo on the air. The female journalist from the magazine has accused the British media of lack of support for fellow journalists!

Wed, 01/14/2015 - 15:51 | 5661477 Flammonde
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Actually, there is no need for a script.  The words can mean anything and will be interpreted to mean whatever is necessary for war.  Why?  War is the health of the state.  

http://www.panarchy.org/bourne/state.1918.html

It automatically sets in motion throughout society those irresistible forces for uniformity, for passionate co-operation with the Government in coercing into obedience the minority groups and individuals which lack the larger herd sense. The machinery of government sets and enforces the drastic penalties, the minorities are either intimidated into silence or brought slowly around by a subtle process of persuasion which may seem to them to really converting them. Of course the ideal of perfect loyalty, perfect uniformity is never attained. The classes upon whom the amateur work of coercion falls are unwearied in their zeal but often their agitation instead of converting, merely serves to stiffen their resistance. Minorities are rendered sullen, and some intellectual opinion, bitter and satirical. But in general, the nation in war-time attains a uniformity of feeling, a hierarchy of values, culminated at the undisputed apex of the State ideal, which could not possibly be produced trough any other agency than war. Other values such artistic creation, knowledge, reason, beauty, the enhancement of life, are instantly and almost unanimously sacrificed and the significant classes who have constituted themselves the amateur agents of the State are engaged not only in sacrificing these values for themselves but in coercing all other persons into sacrificing them.


Wed, 01/14/2015 - 15:57 | 5661519 capltd
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Humm al-Qaeda dosen't take credit for it after the attack instead waits until AFTER Turkey PM blames Mossad

Wed, 01/14/2015 - 21:18 | 5661590 JuliaS
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- What's the difference between Al Qaeda and US government, when it comes to indiscriminate murder of civilians?

- When Al Qaeda does it they at least claim the responsibility.

(Mark Thomas)

Wed, 01/14/2015 - 16:17 | 5661593 Itchy and Scratchy
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'Sticks and stones may break my bones, but your ICBM's always miss me!' Nananananahhhh!

Wed, 01/14/2015 - 16:27 | 5661640 juggalo1
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That's terrorists.  Always wanting to hurt people.  I'm pretty disgusted by these announcements.  I can sympathize with them in a "clash of civilizations" narrative, but butchering cartoonists, authors and civilians in a grocery store is not conflict it's just murder.  They should restrict themselves to more legitimate targets.

Wed, 01/14/2015 - 17:21 | 5661641 falak pema
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ZH : What is the point of presenting this provocative post which debases FACT.

Those "fanatics" killed the innocent by ANY measure of logic or ethic. Those satirical journalists and innocent shoppers were just sacrificed sheeple.

By using this knee-jerk logic ZH is, in no uncertain way, pouring oil on the fire of populist and knee-jerk "reaction" so prevalent in MSM USA.

By activating the reaction of the worst fears amongst the people who know f*** all about the outside world.

Why? 

Did you know that Fox News has just started a series on Paris "psychodrama" which compares central Paris regions as "no go zones" where French "fear to tread" in the heart of Paris. This Fox diffusion of slanted news has created such mirth and incredulity in France its unbelievable.

We even have Nigel Farage being interviewed by these "war hardened" Fox news people who compare Paris today to their experience in Kabul and Baghdad.

This is so hilarious that a local team went and interviewed the arrondisements named to interview the local people in the cafes if they felt that they were living in a Baghdad war zone...

For MSM to delect the sheeple of USA ---apparently watched by 2 million people--about the "reality" of French psychosis, in the FLESH, is just too funny to be true.

But THATS FOX NEWS.

And, Nigel Farage appears and comments it like the disbelieving and skeptical POPE watching France go to the dogs,  in person defending Pax Americana world wisdom as DECREED factually TRUE by FOX NEWS.

And now ZH plays the SAME GAME....Wow, just Wow! 

Has the whole press of US gone totally bonkers? 

The weakness that they point to is the fact that the Sunni HFs, from all locations of the globe, give them--the fanatics-- ammo to take on the western world.

That is the chilling reality of the Daesh/al Qaeda combine. 

PS : If ZH wants to report on what constitutes MSM FACT  in the US, they had better diffuse the Fox News video which will enter into the annals of MSM-- of the type CNN initiated with Christiane Ammanpour about Iraq and those "babies" being killed in a Kuwat hospital by badass Saddam. Now that was a classic and "only on CNN!"

Fox News video : http://www.bfmtv.com/societe/fox-news-parle-de-zones-interdites-aux-non-...

Wed, 01/14/2015 - 18:57 | 5662302 falak pema
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Well Tylers, 

Lets see you do an editorial piece on this Fox Voodoo NEWS...

It would be nearer to the truth about MSM false flags in land of the bemused than all that squack boxing about Al-Qaeda bragging (which is not news but more propaganda dissemination). 

Wed, 01/14/2015 - 16:54 | 5661773 Joebloinvestor
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If there is a god, he is having one fucking good laugh.

Wed, 01/14/2015 - 16:56 | 5661788 kchrisc
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Ah, Paris after the CIA and Mossad have had there way with her. So beautiful, so co opted, so lost.

The banksters need to repay us.

 

Someone really needs to design a false-flag flag. It will definitely have the colors blue and white in it.

Wed, 01/14/2015 - 19:27 | 5662426 Berspankme
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Strange that the broadcast came from Langley

Wed, 01/14/2015 - 17:10 | 5661851 Ariadne
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Alo? Alo? This is Osama bin Laden. You missed, malakas! Don't bother investigating, I did it! Arranged the whole thing! You can find me in Kawastan at 13.146, 45.044. And... The holocaust never happened! Jews run the world! Women belong in the kitchen! Children should be seen, not heard! There is no God but Allah, and Mohammed is his messenger! Usury is theft! I GOT YER GOLD, BITCHEZ! BRING IT ON!

Brothers, wait for the sign, then all prisoners will be released. (runs away screaming)

You will perish in flames! Allah will destroy you and your kind!

Wed, 01/14/2015 - 20:31 | 5662677 Tzanchan
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I love it 5 posts down and there are 2 comments that Jews run the world and some blathering about the Mossad. We do run it it's ours and we'll do as we please, bitchez. And all u can do is peck away at your devices while we drain you of your life essence and you look likewalkers. You want some? Come git it....moronz...

Thu, 01/15/2015 - 00:29 | 5663479 Ariadne
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/Lost There is no way these guys would call the thunder down on their own heads like this. Its obvious who benefits from this, who's being played and who's going to be bottom bitch.

Wed, 01/14/2015 - 17:31 | 5661941 Billy Shears
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Oh yeah, almost forgot, it's time for our 2 minutes of hate break.

https://search.yahoo.com/search?fr=mcafee&type=B111US662D20140722&p=orwe...

Wed, 01/14/2015 - 18:14 | 5662141 Bumbu Sauce
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He is right.  France is gone gone gone.

Wed, 01/14/2015 - 19:06 | 5662333 falak pema
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lol, gone where? You sitting on the Time Machine? 

Good book by HG Wells...

Wed, 01/14/2015 - 20:15 | 5662625 Equality 7-25-1
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How's this: If your personal belief system is such that you are offended by reality, you have to resolve your issues yourself. You have no right to transfer the responsibility of intuiting your personal thoughts and rules onto anybody else. I don't know enough about any religion to respect it. I don't have to. If I don't understand your special interest group, its because I don't care. I don't. Its your problem, deal with it. If you make it my problem you're at least violating my civil rights. I don't care about you, just as you don't care about me by trying to burden me with your problems. You have the right to stay away from me, and thats it. Stay in Yemen, Latin America, China, North Korea, Israel, east Africa. I'm never going there. but if you come here, you have to respect my right to live by a different code than yours and keep your hands off my property. Its the law. Goes double for government employees and beneficiaries.

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