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Al-Qaida in the Yemen,
Apparently didn’t speak very good English.
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Fox Spews reported that Sen. Kelly Ayotte told them that PBO wants to release 30 Yemeni detainees back to Yeman .
That is a big fat lie.
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I can’t even imagine how that woman is feeling right now… She let the gunmen into the building. And I don’t mean to imply that she’s somehow at fault or anything, because she absolutely isn’t, but the thought that maybe she could have saved their lives somehow is going to hang around in her mind for a long time.
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Sounds like she saved her daughter.
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I would think that would just make it worse, being stuck choosing between protecting her daughter and her coworkers. Not to mention the daughter having to witness all that. Ugh.
Coco’s Choice
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They spoke perfect french and claimed to be from AQ of Yemen. Sounds like they want the US to bomb Yemen. A lot. What french speaking devils:
- would do this and
- hate Yemen?
There was also a car bombing in Yemen at a police college today that killed 35 people, mostly Yemeni security forces or future ones. Another bombing last week too. Likely all tied together. Shi’ite Muslim Houthi militia seized Sanaa in September, and it’s been a mess all around.
I’d be curious where the two security people guarding the place were at that time. Not blaming them, just wondering what the standard procedure was. I’d also think this is a place you need to be buzzed into by someone inside with a monitor to see who is outside.
They spoke French perfectly because they were . . . French. No doubt banlieue-born and bred.
Mr Comments, the police at the door of that paper where they’d been permenently stationed for the past several years are dead, for your information. Had you watched the video you’d have seen the murder of one of them.
In this attack the gunmen killed 2 police.
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You’re making a huge assumption. French is spoken many places in the world, not just France. Fr example Frence is widly spoken (quite fluently) in Tunisia and Algeria and Morocco as well as other countries in Africa and the Caribbean.
Google: “French Intifada: How the Arab Banlieues are Fighting the French State.”
Also you may have missed this in the article:
“A staffer for satirical French newspaper Charlie Hebdo said that masked
attackers threatened her to gain access to its offices as they launched
their attack Wednesday and claimed to belong to Al-Qaeda.”
“They spoke French perfectly”
That’s not hard. You just mumble a bunch while making a face like you’re better than the person you’re talking to and disgusted by their presence and then, when they keep saying “what are you talking about?”, you get flabberghasted, tell them in English and call them a “stupid American.”
Fond memories of Quebec…
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This may have been the attack that went too far for the non-terrorist Muslim majority.
The USA (Mr. Obama) already bombs Yemen.
A better question is who wants the French to bomb Yemen (or the al-Qaeda boogeyman, in general)?
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Sniffit, that would be Quebec. It does not hold true in France in my experience. I spent time there this past summer and never once was I treated rudely…by anyone. Quite the opposite. And may I say on other excursions across the pond (in 1968, 1970, 1976 and 1989) that same thing held true. If you are being rudely treated then I suggest you look to see how you are behaving. Then again it may be that folk in Quebec are indeed rude. But I can say with some authority that is not the case in France. I can site dozens of interactions I have had with French folk and they are consistently polite and helpful even when it’s obvious you are not French and are not a fluent speaker of the language.
Here is but one example of something that happened to me: In 1989 myself and 2 buddies had visited a museum in Bayeux dedicated to D-Day. When leaving we saw that our car had been broken into and stuff stolen. We returned to the hotel we’d just checked out of to get some lunch and ponder what to do. the owner saw us and enquired what wasup. upon being told he got angry and insisted he help and translate the details to the police. later that day we left for Paris thinking our stuff was long gone. Two days pass and I got a phone call that the Bayeux police had located some of our belongings and a cop was in the process of driving the 100 miles from Bayeux to Paris to deliver what they’d found and where was our hotel located. Utterly flabbergasted and gobsmacked we waited the cops arrival. We got about 2/3rds of our stuff returned. And this is only one of many stories I can relate about how I have been treated in France
Tell me …has an American policeman ever done something like that for you?
Police now confirm two of the gunmen, brothers, were born and raised in the 10th arrondissement of Paris. The identity of the third is yet to be determined. At least one of the terrorists (called Cherif K., in typically French bureaucratic terms) has been “known to the police” since 2005, and was in Iraq from 2003-5.
(Source: Metro News linked from the Daily Beast).