Bastille Day horror.
Daily Mail
- Dozens of people have been killed and 150 have been injured in a Bastille Day attack in Nice, southern France
- Eyewitnesses reported a gunfight between police responding to the attack and suspects at the scene
- Soldiers have been deployed to the streets in an effort to restore calm to the city
A lorry ran down a large group of people in the southern French city of Nice during a suspected terrorist attack. At least 50 people are feared dead with more than 100 injured during the Bastille Day attack.
Gunshots rang out in the streets, with gunmen targeting hotels and cafes in the port city as residents were warned to lock themselves in doors for their safety.
Hostages have been taken in a hotel in the city.The RAID anti-terror squad has been deployed to the city.
It is believed the gunmen are holding hostages in the Meridien Hotel and the Buffalo Grill restaurant.A lorry rammed into a large group of people who were celebrating Bastille Day before gunmen started firing.
A spokesman for the Alpes Maritime prefecture advised locals to ‘stay indoors’ as gunfire was heard, and a lorry was driven into a crowd on the Promenade des Anglais.
Eyewitnesses said there were ‘bodies everywhere’ with at least 100 people injured.
They need our prayers. Such a horrible, horrible, thing.
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What I am hearing on CNN is that all was caused by a lone actor in the truck. However, a woman who lives in an apartment overlooking the scene says that citizens are being advised to stay in their homes. She wonders that they aren’t 100% sure that there aren’t others.
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Of course there are others. Maybe not today, maybe not tonight. But these kinds of attacks work. They are impossible to defend against, unless you simply eliminate all who attempt such attacks, before the attacks occur.
Read The Three Conjectures. The end result is inevitable.
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Just sick at heart.
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CNN is reporting that there are 73 dead, 100 injured.
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Fox has the dead at 73 also. If we as Americans allow this to come to our doors we are complicit in our own deaths. Any politician who continues to make excuses for the savages of Islam should be considered domestic enemies of the United States.
Trump just announced that out of recognition of the tragedy he is putting off the announcement of his VP.
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CNN’s been refusing to show all of the videos as they are ‘too graphic’ and showed a still scene of the bodies only in black-and-white for same reason.
As driver’s now toast unless he left a suicide video or letter they’re all going to try and say this isn’t Islamic as the driver didn’t declare. If some group like ISIS comes out and claims credit that won’t even help, the apologists like Obama will bend over backwards to say the he was really a redneck on his way to set up a table at an NRA gun show.
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FOX showed some pictures (The ever moronic Shepard said that he picked some images that he thought we could handle. I can not post what I yelled at that piss ant chowder head.
Twiter is full of images, a man decapitated, a small child under a death blanket, her small doll beside her head. I wish they would show the pictures 24/7 until November 8th along with Hillary’s quote, “Let’s be clear. Islam is not our advisory. Muslims are peaceful and tolerant people and have nothing whatsoever to do with terrorism.”
I have a picture of the little girl if you want me to post it Stella. If not I respect that also.
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Mary just did. It’s okay.
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Apparently there was a fire at the Eiffel Tower. I guess it was an electrical fire, but ISIS was taking credit?
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I read it was a truck transporting fireworks?
Fire erupts near Eiffel Tower after truck filled with fireworks ignites in Paris
http://www.express.co.uk/news/world/689690/Paris-truck-explosives-terror-attack-nice-video-live-watch
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Yes – I just posted a news report.
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A truck carrying fireworks caught fire next to the Eiffel Tower in Paris just as an attack killed as many as 73 Bastille Day revelers in the French Riviera capital of Nice.
The blaze in Paris ignited at the Pont d’Iéna bridge over the River Seine due to a “technical incident,” the Paris Police Prefecture announced on Twitter Thursday night.
http://www.nydailynews.com/news/world/fire-eiffel-tower-put-not-linked-nice-attack-article-1.2712143
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The French are quite capable of shooting themselves in their own feet, ISIS does provide a viable excuse though.
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This is what ticks me off, this happens because countries’ leaders bring them in knowing what eventually will happen.
Our country is no different and we’ve been allowing them to come in for years. Remember in the 80’s when the Iranians suddenly almost overnight owned motels followed with signs saying, “American owned,” when folks traveling were tired of staying in their motels.
What really ticks me off is after 9/11 we should have learned our lesson but here we are with thousands if not millions more of them than we had here that day.
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According to FOX, Mr. Trump is postponing his press conference tomorrow due to this incident!
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I just heard that also. Toal respect for this man. Maybe he’ll switch his VP to Pam Gellar.
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Interviewees on CNN say that, because of the weapons, grenades, etc. found in the truck, and the way in which the attack was conducted, it may have been a lone man, but that there was a network behind him.
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I had no doubts from first reports when they started reporting 30 dead that it was a terror attack. Bastille Day is an important Fench holiday, significant and symbolic, and these clowns love to make a ‘significant’ terror statement. For yeras after 911 Federal LEA and intel would send out warnings before ‘significant’ US and Islamic holidays. That sort of ended once the calendar grew to include almost 365 days.
I was telling the Czarina judt a few days ago that you don’t need guns or bombs as you could just drive a truck into a crowd at hi-speed. That was no great leap, every so often we have a drunk drive into a crowd during one of our major alcohol-related festivals, also approaching 365. Will Nancy Pelosi or Chuck Schumer demand a three-day waiting period for truck sales/rentals? Perhaps we need to work harder to reduce the tensions between the Moslem ummah and the rest of the sentient (not thst I include them) world. How about we just start having mandatory ‘Respect for Islam’ classes for the kafir masses?
Sigh…another possible attack by some psychotic who’s hijacked the name of the Religion of Peace.
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There simply is no way to protect yourself from every imaginable kind of terrorist attack. The most effective thing, IMO, is to do everything possible to to KEEP THEM OUT of this country.
And our current pols are doing everything they can to BRING THEM IN.
What part of the above is hard for libs to understand?
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Thevlart about recruiting educated, white European immigrants.
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The part about….Post in anger, edit in leisure
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Interesting, seems the crash into the crowd may be an accident. Now reports are that driver was stopped, started shooting in what msy be a panic response to thevstop and veered into the crowd in a botched getaway. CNN ‘expert’ is now suggesting the entire thing could be by some non-Moslem guy/group trying to make AQ/ISIS look bad (?).
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What about the firearms and grenades in the truck?
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Back to that ‘NRA gin show’ excuse. I am betting we’ll see a push to ratify that UN anti-gun treaty to prevent giuns, explosives and other munitions from being sold on the black market. In reality it prevents civilians and some lower level governmental bodies from having firearms as it doesn’t prevent national governments from transferring arms under the table. That AK bring carried by the African guerilla, like many of those being carried by ISIS, may well have come from a US government shipment that was captured or diverted. Or from Eric Holder…but that’s another story.
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Best guess is there was some exchange of gun fire while the truck was breaking through the barricades. The savage not only drove a mile through a crowded street of innocent people he was also shooting out of the cab while he was driving according to many accounts.
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That’s what it looks like atbpresent. Some schnook is hired to drive a truck full of jihadi toys between point ‘A’ and point ‘B’. He picks the wrong route, gets stopped at a checkpoint, panics and starts shooting. He doesn’t seem to be accelerating heavily as he drives down the street, looks more like he was just trying to find a way out. If he were out to create mass casualties I think he’d have veered left or right into the panicked crowds in open areas on his left and right.
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It looks to me like there were natural barricades to him driving into more compressed gatherings of people. The one eyewitness I heard (I know notoriously unreliable) said that he maneuvered the truck as much as possible at the largest crowds of people and accelerated when he hit them.
If he was a delivery driver I don’t think he would have easy access to his gun it would have been in the trailer or well hidden and not easy to get to in case he was stopped and questioned.
I suspect the grenades and guns were found in the cab as the find was immediately reported if they were in the trailer it would have taken some time to decide it was safe toped it up as it could be booby trapped. I do not even know if they opened the trailer yet.
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no comment necessary…
https://twitter.com/Nero/status/753734667614822400
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This picture broke my heart.
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Wonder if Hillary will blame tne attack on a video of Trump saying bad things about Moslems?
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Currently she is blaming it on the fact that no on has heeded her long calling for NATO to modernize.
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Oh yeah, Hillary the international military strategy expert. “If only NATO had bought that tactical delivery van defense system that the big contributor to Bill’s foundation had suggested…”
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Terrible.
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This is the picture that needs to be posted all over the place. I will run off a 100 copies and put them on the onside in front of the newspaper in the section of stand alone newspaper stands. People will have to pay 50 – 75 cents to remove it and they will have the image in their head.
Satan herself is on FOX. Not an ounce of compassion in her voice, just talking about herself and how she has long fought for NATO to modernize. You can’t make this stuff up.
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Convention isn’t even here and she’s lost her multi-point advantage. She’s just trying to keep any more Rats from jumping ship.
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She is now on CNN sounding bored and like a politician and giving Anderson Cooper kudos. She is also continuing to trumpet her own horn about how she has been saying that we need to stop this nonsense by having a positive effect.
And like a gift from God she is having trouble talking because of a cough. Must be the snakes trying to escape her belly. Not once has she said Islam or Muslim.
Return to hell Hillary and don’t come back.
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Bill isn’t in this one, couldn’t get him to stop singing: “I’d like to buy the world some coke…”
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Good for you, lovely! I’d like to get this image myself, to do similar stuff. Can you send it to me? If you are on twitter, let me know and I will follow you–then we can exchange emails about this.
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I think you are following me . I’ll check.
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Connection!
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Ok I sent you a message on Twitter.
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Oh heavens, I just received a ‘happy anniversary’ notice from WordPress….four years of cynicism and bad editing, no wonder they noticed.
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I had that yesterday, was trying to figure out the new trophy notification thing. lol
I can’t believe it’s been four years.
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I go next door and I can’t believe how much has changed in four years.
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You’re not alone. I truly miss the old tree.
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Which, from time to time, seems to be fertilized with the writings of……
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Now what did I do?
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You do that voodoo that you do so well……
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Nothing at all!
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In passing, Hannity mentions that Hillary wants a 560% increase in immigrants into the US. Now there’s a number and concept that needs to be hammered home until November 9th. If by then Hillary’s elected we know that the majority of voters (note I didn’ t say ‘Americans) want to see the country destroyed, if Trump gets elected that a majority of Americans aren’t ready to slit the country’s throat. Regardless of who gets elected I see dark clouds on the horizon.
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Current count of dead innocent people is at 80.
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Genius juxtaposition of quote and image, IMHO:
https://twitter.com/JohnRiversToo/status/753773182583058432
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It seems to me that the windshield glass must have been some kind of special glass. I think I count at least 20 bullet holes, yet it didn’t shatter.
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Safety glass doesn’t shatter pe se, it’s two layers of glass with a plastic sheet sandwiched between them. Bullets puncture but the glass doesn’t shatter like, say, window glass. Think that rock that hits your car’s windshield as compared to that same rock hitting your picture window at the same speed.
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On CBSN they say the driver was distraught because his wife is divorcing him, and he lost his job (as a driver) because he was caught sleeping behind the wheel.
Anything but islam!
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And so the redefinition begins…the fact that a recent string of killings across Europe all involved Moslems is just coincidental.
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Watch for them to say the cause was his texting while driving.
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One report has him yelling ‘Allah Akbar’ as he jumps from his vehicle and starts firing while another report stayes he was recently convicted of road rage’. I’m starting to see the redefinitional steering wheel being jerked hard astern.
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Texas executive and son, 11, mowed down and murdered in France terror attack in front of his horrified wife and two other children while on dream family trip to Europe
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3691392/American-father-son-believed-84-killed-Nice-terrorist-drove-truck-packed-guns-explosives-crowd-celebrating-Bastille-Day.html
State Department confirmed Friday that two Americans are among the dead after the Bastille Day attack in Nice, France
Family and friends confirmed the two victims as father and son Sean and Brodie Copeland of Lakeway, Texas
Brodie, 11, was pictured playing in the sea shortly before he was killed
Mr Copeland, 51, and his youngest son were watching the fireworks when a group of terrorists rammed a truck through the crowds and opened fire
Mr Copeland’s wife Kim and his two adult children from another marriage, Maegan and Austin, witnessed the attack but were able to escape
At least 84 have died after the French independence day attack
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Apparently Brodie and his dad left their white privilege card in Texas.
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84 dead, 25 more on life support. Also reporting a Swiss woman and child, otherwise unidentified, are among the victims.
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Interestingbthing popped up on Fox, commentator said that US NSA and France will be getting together to track the communications of the Nice murderer over the last few weeks. That seems to imply the Carnivore-follow on mass surveillance system is doing what a number of European nations have complained about for decades: the US mass vacuuming up of communications worldwide. It would also help explain the monstrously huge storage capavity of the Utah center.
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Fox had yet another expert on, saying that the reasons France has been targeted so frequently not only include France’s colonial past in North Africa ( obvious) but the number of French (not otherwise identified) returning from Iraq. Might I add that France has taken an active role in keeping its old colonies stable, sending in the Legionnaires if needed and its regular military when needed – remember France going toe-to-toe with Gadaffi in Chad?
There’s aleo the ignored issue of France’s support of Israel. France has always supported Israel, even in the face of condemnstion if Israel. Back during the Cold War Israel bought advanced patrol boats from France. Seven were delivered but the French government ‘ officially’ stopped the delivery of the remaining five. The Israelis somehow managed to board, fire up and sail the remaing boats out of the Cherbourg shipyard, out into the Atlantic, down the coast, thru the Straits of Gibraltar, thru the Med and back to Isreal without the French (or any other NATO) navy intercepting them. Strangely these embargoed ships were full of fuel and supplies.
France is also heavily responsible for the ‘creation’ of Lebanon, ripping it from the body of Syria, and those folk have long memories.
This France As A Target issue has deep roots.
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Watching the POtuS’s latest ‘it ain’t about Islam’ speech? He’s also taking the chance to remind us of how greatbhevis and how much he’s done to progress prog porroms…errrrr, programs. This was supposed to be about the Nice attack but he’s turning it into an Obama initiative. I note the cameras are off of the French ambassador’s face…gee, wonder why. I also note the very light and scattered applause from the attendees, even now I’m unsue as to if the applause were for the content of his speech or the fact it was over.
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I don’t watch him at all, these days. I’ll read what others say about it (like you). Thanks for taking the pain.
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We’ve all been taking the pain for the last seven years.
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POTuS saying that we need to provide hope, alternatives to extremist pholosophy and economic opportunities to ( unstated ‘Islamic’) countries so that the youth (he done give up on the adults?) will blah, blah, blah.
Sounds like his failed innercity push to civilize the feral, wonder if he’ll push Congress for funding to bring Midnight Basketball to Syria and ISIS?
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Reports coming in about gunshots in Ankara, military aircraft flying over Ankara and tanks blocking bridges. Remember whst I’ve said in thevpast about Mideast pols and how they keep their eyes on the military’s tank,parks as moving tanks mean a coup,or counter-coup?
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Looking more and more like a coup. Remember I’ve also said that the Turkish presidentvserves at the pleasure of the Turkish military, let’s see how deep the military’s unrest is.
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Attaturk didn’t trust politicians, he was ( as are many Mideast ‘leaders’) a military officer. He set the seculsr path for Turkey and, aside from leaving Turkey as a democracy, left the future of Turkey as a democracy in the hands of the military.
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Fox reporting that a new poll shows 2/3rds of the polled (not including Herefords) believe that our fight against ISIS is going badly while 1/3rd believes we’re doing OK. I’m betting that a deeper analysis of the data will show the 1/3rd saying we’re doing fine are ISIS immigrants who intend to vote for CHANGE…..errrr, Hillary.
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Seems the French investigation’s starting to lean yowards the Obama dialogue of guns and mental illness. News is trumpeting his having official papers showing he’s a nut and has engaged in nutty behaiors prior to his having this breakdown. Islam once again saved by mental illness…take that any way you want.
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