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Terrorists Planned Thursday Attack On Paris Mall; "Mastermind" Killed In Raid, WaPo Says
Moments ago, French prosecutor Francois Molins gave an update regarding the early morning raid in the Paris suburb of St-Denis that resulted in two deaths and the arrest of seven suspects. The target: the alleged mastermind of the Paris attacks, Abdelhamid Abaaoud.
French authorities reportedly had Abaaoud’s cousin under surveillance and suspected she was hiding him an apartment about two kilometers from the Stade de France. Here is an eyewitness account of how she died:
During a ten or fifteen minute lull in the shooting I heard a woman shouting: ‘Help, help, help me!’ The police asked her to identify herself and to show herself. She showed her hands but she didn’t reveal her face.
She withdrew them and then put them up again several times. They shouted at her: ‘Keep your hands in the air!’
They told her: ‘We’re going to shoot.’
The shooting resumed. The police were firing from the roof of the building opposite. Suddenly there was an enormous explosion [from the window, inside the flat]. It was probably the woman who blew herself up.
The windows shattered. Lots of objects from the apartment were thrown into the street, pieces of human flesh as well. They are still there. You can see a bit of the head, of skin, of ribs.
Three people were arrested in the apartment itself, while two additional suspects, along with the landlord and his “female friend” were also taken into custody.
At this afternoon’s press conference, Molins confirmed that Abaaoud was not among those arrested.
However, he also said he could not identify those who had been killed, which suggested that perhaps Abaaoud was among the dead. After Molins spoke to the press, Washington Post reported that according to European intelligence officials, Abaaoud was killed.
Here are three images from the scene:
Molins went on to say that some 5,000 rounds were fired in the battle between militants and elite police forces on Wednesday morning. Here's his account of the arrests:
There are two people dead but it will take a bit longer to get the additional details, because the building had to be propped up because it was threatening to collapse.
Police found in the rubble of the attack two men, one injured. They were immediately arrested.
Two other people were arrested outside, including person who let the militants use and a woman next to him.
Perhaps the most unnerving thing about the raid (especially if you live in Paris) is that according to officials, this "cell" was very close to carrying out another attack in the city. According to Reuters, that attack was set to unfold on Thursday in the business district. Here are the details:
Suspected Islamist militants flushed out of a Paris suburb by police in a shootout on Wednesday were planning to attack the French capital's La Defense business district, three sources told Reuters.
A source close to the investigation source said the attack was being prepared for Thursday in the district that is home to some of France's biggest companies such as the oil major Total and the main trading room of Societe Generale bank.
Several police sources said the targets were the Quatre Temps shopping centre and the main square of the district of high-rise office buildings on the western edge of Paris.
"The police forces were looking for terrorists who were preparing another attack on the basis of information from the (local) counter-terrorism services and overseas," said the source close to the investigation.
"This new team was planning an attack on La Defense," the source said.
To give you an idea of how bad this could have been, consider that this is the most visited shopping center in France. Here are some bullet points (no morbid pun intended):
- Four levels of shops
- Four levels of parking, 6500 spaces parking
- 230 shops (30 shops without Cnit nor the 50 stores of the mall from the station, which is managed by another company and is not the mall)
- The eleventh Apple Store in France was open to Quatre Temps May 25, 2012
- Les Quatre Temps is the first French shopping center by turnover (824.1 million euros in 2009) to large Vélizy 2 2, the second in size behind Belle Thorn (140 900) and its first attendance (45.7 million visitors in 2012 3) before the Forum des Halles. The expansion and renovation allowed him to take first place.
And here are two videos, the first depicts La Defense and the second is a kind of POV tour through the shopping center.
As you can see, if Abaaoud's operatives were looking for so-called "soft targets", there would have been plenty.
The obvious question now, is how many more "safehouses" and "cells" there are hidden in the suburbs of Paris and, additionally, what kind of "intelligence" France is sitting on regarding what might be coming next.
For now, it looks like Hollande has all the support he needs to escalate attacks in Syria, but should public opinion need that little extra push over the edge in terms of supporting the deployment of ground troops to take Raqqa (and subsequently "assist" in facilitating a "transition" away from the Assad government), don't be surprised if a few more Syrian passports are found in a safe house or worse, on what's left of the body of a suicide bomber.
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and the moon is made of green cheese!
All this terrorist decoy stuff and 2016 is looking like it's going to be a rough one economically to say the least.
Masterminds in Western governments and Nato are still alive and doing well. State sponsored terrorism will continue.
Wow, they wrote him out of the show so early... what a waste of a good "back story". I assume they are dumping him in the North Sea, you know, the traditional muslim burial?
I've been through La Defense, it's basically the craziest mall in the world. If an overlord had created a "hamster maze" for humans to get lost and and spend money, that's it.
It would have been horrific if someone attacked it the same way they attacked Paris last week.
More important than its parking configuration, is the fact it is the epicenter of French finance. Most buildings on that esplanade are HQs of CAC40 corporations. It's the WTC à la française.
Like Jeff Bezos says, there are terrorists out there so we have to lose our freedoms to stop them from taking our freedoms.
The "mastermind" is dead? Well then, I guess we can return everything to normal and live like it didn't happen... until the next "mastermind" shows up, right? /sarc
Remember kiddies, when seconds matter, the police are just minutes away. That's why you can't be trusted with guns.
I pity the poor landlord of that building. You ever try collecting rent from a bunch of crazy terrorists with AK-47s and suicide bombs?
Poor landlord had probably been trying to get rid of those renters for years but was stymied by liberal French renters laws.
Meh, it's been done already... Incrementally upping the body count, or playing the same game on a new field is the stuff of 20-something "masterminds". The Total board room or the SocGen trading desk (during market hours) would be a new and interesting escalation worthy of an adult thinker, but they could always also send a few rats down to the maze to hunt cheese eating surrender monkeys and keep the popo occupied and spread thin.
More a vomit than a comment.
Happily for the US the "monkeys" didn’t surrender at Chesapeake and Yorktown ! The USA wouldn’t exist then …
So wil this one be like bin laden? "Dump his body in the sea" and we just take their word for it. This guy probably doesn't even really exist. They either got caught with their pants down and look stupid as hell and now need to look like they are doing something, or as some people think, it's all fake anyway. Either way, they need some kind of evil genius type to take down to make everyone feel better.
It's weird how the necessary thing (the breakdown of trust in broken government) spawns an unfortunate, yet wise cynicism of government.
A lard lined coffin.....
I probably wouldn't have thought of La Defense as the next place to target. It would be making Paris look better to take out that ugly square building. But then Tour Montparnasse is probably a better one to destroy to help the city.
Why no tourist attractions yet? Sure, those guys around La Tour Eiffel have had guns for at least the past ten years I know of, but what about Notre Dame? Just outside the Louvre or at Montmarte and Sacre Coeur. Des egouts de Paris at least used to be open. If you blew up the sewer system, what kind of shit would there be?
And how can you protect it all? Be afraid, citizen. Be very afraid. But your government is watching out for you. Uncle Jean-Pierre and Uncle Sam know what is best for you.
Geraldo in Paris: ‘I’ve been begging my daughter to leave France’http://tinyurl.com/qjh5ayb
I say we start a gofundme to send Geraldo to MARS. Who's in?
Can Dr. Harry Reid and Nancy go with him?
After much thought I have a whole sack of turds that need to go along.
sacre bleu! enough of this nonsense. Tylers, no more second, third, and fourth hand info. WE want to see some real shit! show me some fucking body parts we keep hearing about. like some of those skinny ass french dogs sniffing on a blown off arm on the street, or a piece of mooslim head sticking to a wall, blood, bullet holes in a perforated torso, shit, something! i wanna smell gunpowder in the air, smell the irony blood, see the horror of the little french kids when they carried out the police dog, etc., etc., etc. pictures will work, videos rule. we know you guys can get 'em. and as a by-line, is the mooslim lady that wasted herself going to get 72 virgin girls/women? or are there 72 virgin hard ons awaiting this pristine pos? just askin'................wtf.
Shahada or Shahadaz or whatever
Only 2500 rounds per person.
French SWAT teams trained by NYPD's finest, ne ce pas ?
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Non.
NYPD training and would be 800 bystanders dead.
Reminds me of the old SNL Dirty Harry parody skit "Filthy Larry" with Dan Akroyd, where he runs into a supermarket and mows everyone down with a submachine gun, and afterward stares into the camera and says in a Clint Eastwood voice, "I'd kill 30 people to take a punk like that off of the street!"
It's apparently been scrubbed from the interwebs - too non-PC.
Nah if they were, there would be 10 innocent bystanders wounded instead.
Unfortunately, this is likely coming to a mall near you.
I wonder how many troubled kids are now indeed thinking how cool it would be to copycat those morons in paris
Yep, in addition to all of the other psychos out there with various motivations. I hope malls are ramping up armed security for the holiday season.
At Christmas in all theatres!
christmas day, preferably on Long Island, is there a new Ben Stiller movie coming out? ...or at a chinese restaurant on the upper west bank
Preferably on Long Island? I would love to know what you know about it.
Fine with me. Malls are shrines to narcissism and decadence. You don't have to be religious at all to see that.
You're sick.
All those malls been blow up by a bomb in their underware.
Future news flash: Black lives matter gang shoots up shopping mall. Group says it is angry because national press is focused on Paris attack, not black lives matter complaints.
That looks like a clean raid :)
I'm surprised the building is still standing :)
Looks like they used mortars to clear the building.
5,000 rounds.
Assuming it's a 'bigger avg apartment' in Paris that is about 7 1/2 bullets per sq foot.
They used explosive rounds :) to bad they're not showing pictures of the inside
No trial how convenient
Disgustingly Bullish!
that's what my broker just said... then "buy moar!"
I'm glad to see Russia fighting hand-in-hand with a NATO country. Putin declared that the French army is now considered an allied force.
' The key objective is to maintain Syria's territorial integrity. '
Mr V Putin, October 3rd 2015, regarding Russia's military involvement in Syria.
Hollande, Cameron and Erdoghan can howl from the stands but that's probably how it will end up on the field.
The French seem to have accepted that President Assad is staying.
On the news....Stocks at new high. Fucking idoits
Isn't it amazing that right AFTER a terrorist attack "they" suddenly know where all of them are and are able to "prevent" attacks with ease? Something stinks like dirty whore crotch rot...
She tried to get rid of it with explosives.
The stink remains.
No it isn't they know the identity of every European of Muslim origin; everyone who has ever visited or corresponded on a Jihadi site or anyone who has visited a Muslim country.
We certainly do live in interesting times.
"Mastermind"?
Look, there isn't much to 'mastermind', if all you plan to do is to use arms on large groups of civilians. Especially if dealing with Gun-Free-Zone Europeans, rather than (say) gun-toting Texans.
they have to stop putting shopping mall floor plans on playstation, immediatement!
Nice to know that French Muslim women stroll around the house wearing explosive belts just in case of a surprise raid by the police.
Its a chastity belt.
When you read this it's nothing less than the worst theater production of "insane" idiotic and "absurd".
So insane, idiotic and absurd that you begin to wonder if it's all a clever CIA experiment that if it's repeated long enough, oh... maybe 14 years to be exact it triggers some kind of permanent complex neurological disorder that changes rational human beings into American/Israeli made "proxies" or for the layman a terrorist!
It's a well known psychological phenomenon that holding two contradictory ideas in your mind will cause "cognitive dissonance", and that the majority of people will fall back on their social programming to resolve it. This usually means that they fall back on the prepared and propagandized explanations for any discrepencies that arise.
Of course he was killed!!
You can't leave a possible voice alive who can expose the whole operation! CIA and all...
Cue the heretofore unknown social media account describing the deceased villain's nefarious plans in astounding detail complete with grainy terrorist chic photos composed with Bashar al-Assad in assless chaps....
Hmmm. I cite the WaPo to make a point that is contrary to the widely held albeit wrong views at this site and it is met w/ calls questioning the validity of the soure; then the purveyors of the site cite the
WaPo and its golden! bwahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaahhahaha
This was over at Hotair much earlier: http://hotair.com/archives/2015/11/18/breaking-wapo-mastermind-of-paris-...
Markets are loving the prospect of int rate hikes! Look at those puppies soar!
Just bomb Turkey and Belgium that's where all the ISIS control centers are located.
https://thinkpatriot.wordpress.com/2015/11/18/you-who-allow-yourselves-t...
Their campaign of generating hate is working fine. They ride these waves while doing nothing effective to stop or control the causes.
https://thinkpatriot.wordpress.com/2015/10/02/previous-episodes-of-zealo...
So the "Mastermind" @ "Jihadist John" are both gone. So who is the boogie man name that we have to learn now.
Umm, "Gorgeous George?"
nice bring Syria to Paris
If that guy was the Mastermind, then I'm the King of fracking France.
This is turning out like all the other major plots, the evidence and stories just don't stand up to any scrutiny. I'm expecting the next step will be the media be forbidided from even mentioning the event.
Yea but you have to remember that this kind of shit is what stands between Hollande and the guillotine.
So they couldn't stop an attack, couldn't find this "mastermind" for close to a year and then poof, within days they figure out the maastermind, find him and kill him and then are able to foil multiple other incidents that were about to happen. Uh huh. We also can't forget the leaked info of bombs at staiums that after the seed has been planted in the inds of the gullible sheeple they say there weren't bombs.
All this shit is more absurd than your garden variety low budget action movie yet there are the millions who believe this crap. Incredible.
I'm still hoping they bring back Osama.
The softer the target, the bigger the pussy attacking it.
The elite need to quit having these articles written by AI computers.
A first grade journalist could do better than this with just 1 crayon.
So when she blew herself up, does she get 72 virgin men in the afterlife? I mean fair is fair right?
So from the Telegraph, they say some weird stuff. Police were led to the flat by finding a mobile phone that one of the Bataclan killers had thrown in a rubbish bin. They followed the GPS data back to that flat......riiiight....
Then it says that the flat owner was asked by a friend to let a flat to some friends for a couple of days. However, the Police say they couldnt gain access to the flat with explosives as the door had been reinforced!
Such a load of bollocks this story is turning out to be.....
So from the Telegraph, they say some weird stuff. Police were led to the flat by finding a mobile phone that one of the Bataclan killers had thrown in a rubbish bin. They followed the GPS data back to that flat......riiiight....
Then it says that the flat owner was asked by a friend to let a flat to some friends for a couple of days. However, the Police say they couldnt gain access to the flat with explosives as the door had been reinforced!
Such a load of bollocks this story is turning out to be.....