paw339

Its not often I use this word but these terrorists were evil.

Novocastrian

100% agreed. Even Iraqi civilians.

Yorkiechef

As someone that has dealt with very sensitive information before, how does a group of 8 manage to keep this so secretive that there was no indication that this might happen. Police and intelligence services are very active in trying and succeeding in breaking these groups down, there is normally some intel that allows the good guys the foil the attacks. It would be fair to say that similar groups have been caught preventing similar actions in the last 12 months, but 8 is a large group did they not approach a ninth or tenth person that then dobs them in it?

I don't foresee any cuts in police services anytime soon. Perhaps it is time to grow to combat this activity.

Just had a read of my previous posts on the other Paris attack thread from 10 months ago, I stand by my comments made then.

RIP.

Former Lancastrian

So ISIS has now claimed responsibility much as I expected.
Our new Canadian Defence Minister stated on Thursday
"ISIS is a threat, no doubt about that. Should we fear it? No. The Canadian population should have full confidence in all the security services to keep us safe."

Our Agency published this report last year and believe me our Agency is nothing compared to CSIS or MI5 or any of the other Intelligence Agencies
Border agents warned ‘disillusioned, traumatized foreign fighters’ may be trying to return to Canada: documents | National Post

Im so glad that parts of Bill C24 are going to be revoked so that we can't remove citizenship from those who participate in these types of attacks
Toronto 18 terror plotter's citizenship revoked by federal government | Toronto

Of course the shooting of Cpl Nathan Cirillo in 2014 at the Canadian War Memorial was never attributed as a terrorist attack as he was just a disturbed individual rather than acting as a lone wolf because some didn't want to call him a terrorist. Nor was the death of Martin “Ahmad” Rouleau, who allegedly hit two members of the Canadian Forces as they were walking in a strip mall just outside St-Jean-sur-Richelieu at about 11:30 a.m.

So for those who don't think ISIS doesn't have a presence in Canada then you might want to think again and we just hope this doesn't happen in Canada on a scale like Paris.

BristolUK

It would indeed. Although it might have involved something more individual - some event or location - rather than a collective action.

I think they'd generally like to be a bit more sure that if not a resounding yes, they'd at least get a "not this time, but go ahead" when they are asking random Muslims if they fancy coming along for a bit of slaughter on Friday night.

Yorkiechef

Bristol, to me it smacks of a cell trained and versed in Syria, that have all, repeat all, have fought alongside each other and then sent to Paris with little help except for logistical support. Time will tell. Shoot will hit the fan of these animals have used the refugee route to get back to Europe.

magnumpi

They found A Syrian passport on one of them so chances are one of them at least entered legally.

scrubbedexpat095

Some weeks ago I'm sure I read (among the justification for the new Spies bill in the UK) that an attack in Paris similar to the Mumbai attack had been thwarted.

I guess there was a backup group as yesterdays atrocity is very similar to what happened in Mumbai

I honestly think we should just bomb the shit out of Raqqa, but of course we won't do that as too many innocents bystanders would be killed, far better that we just let the innocent bystanders in Europe get killed instead

BristolUK

Which makes it less likely that they would approach someone else who dobs them in wouldn't it? That was really my point.

magnumpi

As if they did not have enough to deal with in France, now this is added to their woes

Breaking news on Train derailment in Eckwersheim, France, Nov. 14, 2015 - breakingnews.com

Shard

Well Jihadi John amongst others were taken out. That has to be a bit of progress.

JamesM

Yes. Good riddance to that tosser.

Alan2005

Some posters really seem to get off on bad news.

Former Lancastrian

Some posters seem to not read the news so are unaware of events and then comment on stuff they know nothing about but it must be ok because their Govt leaders say so. This is not aimed at you specifically but using your comment to show there are a lot of uninformed individuals out there.

Shirtback

are you serious??????