Meh, looks like a fuck up in a standard surveillance operation.
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Well, since Macron is really pro-security, maybe letting the Secret Services take cases like this was a plan of him, to keep France safer.
edited 14th Oct '17 11:35:33 AM by Grafite
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It's pretty routine. You have a domestic intelligence agency, it's what they're tasked with.
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Good news in Marawi. Omar Maute and Isnilon Hapilon were killed via RCWS gunfire from an APC when they spotted them trying to pretend to be hostages and Hapilon tried to use a human shield via baby, but the woman got away with her child.
In Malta, police are now investigating who was responsible for assassinating a Maltese journalist via car bomb when an explosive device was planted on her sedan.
That second story seems more like a targeted assassination than terrorism. I doubt ISIS is very interested in her reporting of the Panama Papers.
I do wonder how ISIS members would respond if it came to light that the Caliph was embezzling funds from their operation and keeping it in some offshore bank account in Bermuda.
Oh, bother.
A thwarted airport bombing receives little national press — and some activists cry foul
Some asshole planted an improvised bomb in a North Carolina airport because he was "preparing to fight a war on U.S. soil." He was thwarted, fortunately.
What makes this noteworthy is how this story went under the radar. More than a few people are pointing out that it's probably because the guy looks white and thus doesn't fit into the narrative of what a terrorist is "supposed" to look like.
Disgusted, but not surprised
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Oh for fuck's sake.
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Same shit different day, white people can't be terrorists because people are irrational racist fuckwits.
Is there ever any significant coverage of foiled terrorist attacks, regardless of circumstances? The only one I can remember was a failed plot in Marseille, and even then, no details were shared. Treating this like a case of biased media is unfair.
Oh, bother.
Snopes did point out that might have been a factor.
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We see those over here all the time, but then again we get lots more than the average European or American country.
How big was the bomb?
Something that flew completely under the radar for me:
Mogadishu bombing: al-Shabaab behind deadly blast, officials say
News is out in Afghanistan that suicide bombers targeted an Afghan Army outpost with Humvees loaded with explosives.
A mosque and a bus carrying prospective army cadets in Afghanistan were taken out by suicide bombers.
http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-politics-41717394
The French approach is overly suggested.
Everyone knows what happens when you stop taking prisoners...
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Given that I just watched a video of a Daesh suicide bomber faking surrender, do excuse me if there's a lack of people who really care either way.
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Better care, because our soldiers are still safer when they dont have to fight everyone to the death.
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Funny, I thought Trump and co. have pretty much started (re-)expanding the scope of drone warfare for the express purpose of reducing the need of having US troops risking their lives in such confrontations.
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President Duterte said that the safest region from Islamists is South America... I kinda want to beg to differ.
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In a new poll of 1,131 active-duty soldiers conducted by The Military Times after the August “Unite the Right” rally in Charlottesville, 30 percent of respondents ranked white nationalists as a more significant danger to U.S. security than the Syria and Iraq conflicts. They put the danger from those at 27 percent and 17 percent respectively.
The Charlottesville rally drew members of the Ku Klux Klan and neo-Nazis, which the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) says can be fairly described as white nationalists. The SPLC’s research shows hate groups in the U.S. grew 17 percent from 2014 to 2016.
Of those who responded to the poll, more than 60 percent said they support calling in the National Guard or reserves to control rallies like Charlottesville, which left one counterprotester dead and more than 19 injured.
Some respondents also had concerns about white nationalists in the ranks of the military. Close to 42 percent of the nonwhite servicemen and women who took part in the poll said they had witnessed white nationalists in America’s military. Just 18 percent of white respondents said the same.
Those who answered the poll were 76 percent white, 8 percent Hispanic, 9 percent African-American, 2 percent Asian, and 5 percent were made up of other ethnicities.
Almost 5 percent of respondents complained that civil rights groups like Black Lives Matter, which advocates for an end to police brutality against African-Americans, were not included among the poll’s choices of threats to national security.
There was also pushback in the poll against singling out white nationalists—who advocate for America to become a whites-only nation and for whites to hold a majority in the U.S.—as a danger.
“White nationalism is not a terrorist organization,” an anonymous Navy commander responded. Another anonymous Air Force staff sergeant asked the pollsters, “You do realize white nationalists and racists are two totally different types of people?”
I seriously hope that the navy commander was only interpreting the question in an Exact Words manner.
edited 26th Oct '17 12:49:52 PM by FluffyMcChicken
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Considering that Daesh isn't really killing people in continental US and white nationalists do, it's kind of a no-brainer?
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edited 14th Oct '17 10:47:22 AM by TheHandle
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