Attacks in Paris, France

The multiple attacks in Paris, France are wrong and evil. The attacks also transpired in Saint-Denis
or a northern suburb of Paris. As time goes on, we have more facts about what has happened.
Innocent people have died as a product of cowards, murderers, and terrorists. There are many
horrific scenes of bloodshed. It started in November 13, 2015 on 10 pm. (in Paris time). About 132
people have been killed (including 89 at the Bataclan Theater where they took hostages before
engaging in a three stand-off with the police). There have been 352 people injured and 3 terrorists
have been identified as French citizens. The multiple, simultaneous terrorist attacks are totally
destructive. The attacks happened in the Le Petit Cambodge restaurant, the La Belle Equipe
restaurant (on Rue de Charonne), the Concert venue Bataclan, the Rue de la Fontaine au Roi,
Avenue de la Republique, Boulevard Voltaire (Comptoir Voltaire), and near the Stade de France (or
French stadium). The attacks were the deadliest on France since World War II and the deadliest in
the European Union since the Madrid train bombings in 2004.
The first explosion came about in 9:20 pm. outside of the Stade de France near entrance D. France
was playing Germany in a soccer match. French President Hollande was there and he left
immediately. Later, a second explosion echoed inside the stadium. Each blast was secured by a
suicide bomber. They wore similar explosive belts with batteries, bolts, and buttons. The blasts

happen on the same street called Rue Rimet. Four people were killed outside the venue in the Paris
suburb of Saint-Denis. In 9:25 pm, gunmen with Kalashnikov style assault rifled arrive in a black auto
in the corner of Rue Alibert and Rue Bichat in Paris' 10th district. The masked attackers killed 15
people at the restaurants Le Carillon and Le Petit Cambodge. 10 other people were seriously
wounded. 100 shell casings were found in the scene. Another explosion happened at the stadium
near entrance H in 9:30 pm. 2 minutes later, attackers killed 5 people and wounded 8 others in the
corner of Rue Fontaine au Roi and Rue Faubourg du Temple in the 11th district of Paris. They were
outside the bar A La Bonne Biere. About 100 shell casings were found in the scene. At 9:36 pm, a
black vehicle comes to the restaurant La Belle Equipe at 92 Rue de Charonne. The attackers are
inside of it. Later, the gunmen fired their assault weapons on people who are sitting outside the
eatery. 19 people were killed and tons of shell casings were found in the scene. A suicide bomber
blows himself up at the Compotoir Voltaire restaurant in 9:40 pm. Many people are injured. Three
attackers were armed with assault weapons in a black VW Polo to the concert venue Bataclan. The
gunmen enter the small concert hall and open fire on 9:40 pm. The ban performing was the U.S.
band Eagles of Death Metal, a blues rock group from Palm Desert, California. Eighty-nine people are
killed. Gunmen fire upon people as they lay on the floor, killing execution-style, recounts one
concertgoer. The attackers enter firing pump rifles and shouting "Allah Akbar," a witness later tells
Radio France.

One patron, Julien Pearce, a radio reporter, sees two of the gunmen in black clothing enter the
venue "very calm, very determined" and firing "randomly." "It was a bloodbath," he says. Many of the
shooters took people as hostage and regroup them in front of the stage. The attackers made a brief
address and talked about Iraq and Syria. The people hide for more than 2 hours in order to survive.
Another suicide bomber blows up about 400 meters from the Stade de France, a third blast occurs
on Rue de la Cokerie between a McDonald's and the sports stadium. The remains of a suicide
bomber are subsequently discovered. The police move in the Balaclan at 12:20 am. Saturday.
French elite police units storm the Bataclan more than two hours after the attackers slaughtered the
concert's patrons. The terrorists are killed during the police counterassault. One of them is killed by
police gunfire and by the explosives he is wearing. The other two activate their suicide belts and die
as police raid the concert hall. One of the terrorists is identified by a fingerprint as a 30-year-old
French national from the Paris suburb of Courcouronnes. That individual had a criminal history and
was identified as having been radicalized in 2010, but that person had not been accused of
terrorism. People have also died on Avenue de la Republique.
Syrian and Egyptian passports were found near the bodies of two of the perpetrators of the two
attack sites. Egyptian authorities said that the passport belonged to a victim, Aleed Abdel-Razzak,
and not one of the perpetrators. By November 16, French and Belgian investigations turned to
Abdelhamid Abaaoud, who was the radical jihadist they believed was the leader of the plot. The
French police said that other suspects were Samy Amimour (from Paris. He fought in Yemen), Omar
Ismal Mostefa (he was from the Paris suburb of Coucouronnes. He was identified as a bomber by a

severed finger found in the theater. He was born to an Algerian father and a Portuguese mother),
and another third unknown suspect.
Hundreds of raids have occurred in France and Belgium to either get suspect, accomplishes, or
other people of interest.

On 1516 November, French tactical police units, in a raid of over 200 locations in northern and
southern France, arrested 23 people and seized weapons. Another 104 people were placed under
house arrest.
On 18 November, police raided a flat in Saint-Denis. Abdelhamid Abaaoud was killed in the ensuing
gunfight, which lasted several hours. A second suspect, who police initially identified as a female
cousin of Abaaoud, died by detonating an explosive vest. However, the suicide bomber was later
determined to be male and remained unidentified, while a third body, that of the female cousin, was
located in the rubble. Eight suspected militants were arrested at or near the flat and were being
questioned. During the operation, a police dog was killed and five policemen and a resident were
slightly injured. Evidence points to the attackers having regularly used unencrypted communications
during the planning of the attack.

Les musulmans ne sont pas des terroristes. Les rfugis ne sont

pas des terroristes.
Frances State of Emergency
Shortly before midnight, French President Francois Hollande said that French was closing its borders
and imposing a state of emergency, which was under a 1955 law that suspends key democratic
rights. President Hollande had ordered by decree without debate or consultation with Frances
National Assembly the enactment of a State of Emergency throughout France, coupled with the
closing of Frances borders allegedly to prevent terrorists from coming in, and from terror suspects
from leaving the country. The measures also included procedures which enable the police to
conduct arbitrary arrests and house searches without a warrant within the Paris metropolitan area
opening up the development of a potential hate campaign directed against Frances Muslim
population. These drastic police state measures (including the repeal of habeas corpus) ordered by
president Hollande were decided upon prior and in the absence of a police report. Initial reports
confirmed the involvement of half a dozen terrorists. Many people believe that there was a
nationwide terror network. Many places of Paris were on lockdown for a time. Police helicopters,
paramilitary police and army units were deployed across the city hours after the attacks. Hollande
said that France is at war with ISIS. ISIS claimed responsibility for these attacks. We know that Saudi

Arabia, the other Gulf States, even some factions of Turkey have funded ISIS, al-Qaeda, and other
likeminded groups (with the full knowledge of Western intelligence). In April 2008, a Treasury
official testified in a congressional hearing that:
Saudi Arabia today remains the location from which more money is going to Sunni terror groups
and the Taliban than from any other place in the world. [See Rachel Ehrenfeld, Their Oil Is Thicker
Than Our Blood, in in Sarah N. Stern, ed., Saudi Arabia and the Global Islamic Terrorist Network:
America and the Wests Fatal Embrace (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2011), p. 127].
We know that ISIS evolved from the conditions of the evil Iraqi war. The innocent people of Paris
and the innocent people of the Middle East who died by terrorism are all victims of the evils of the
imperialist wars in the Middle East and the actions of ISIS. France backed proxy wars for regime
change in Libya and Syria. One of the bad news of these tragic events is the rise of the radical right
in France and in the States including the rest of Europe. Marine Le Pen is a reactionary person who
has fueled mass xenophobia for years and decades for the National Front Party. It is a boon as well
for countless reactionary politicians in Eastern Europe, from Hungarys Viktor Orban to Slovakia
Prime Minister Robert Fico including GOP candidates, who also benefit from growing antiimmigrant fervor. These radical nationalists claim to promote their own nations, but they only
promote bigotry. Right now, right wing websites want to blame refugees collectively for the
massacres in Paris, which is despicable. These sites are hypocritical since they ignore the massive
terrorism done by the West in the Middle East.

French warplanes continue to bomb Syrian locations in Raqqa, etc. France has been bombing Syrian
places in trying to target ISIS since September of 2014.

It is illogical for some to promote enacting regime change (to try to create a puppet state) since
that will cause more terror and more refugees coming into Europe. No matter how many barriers
the EU puts up, refugees will find ways around them. These attacks are exploited to promote war
for so-called humanitarianism. French intelligence knew that such attacks were possible. Paris
Match on October 2nd predicted a French Style 9/11, un 11 septembre la franaise. It is a fact
that both the US and France, not to mention Britain, Turkey, Saudi Arabia, Qatar and Israel are
covertly supporting various Al Qaeda affiliated terrorist formations in Syria and Iraq including al
Nusrah and the Islamic State. France is the victim of the Islamic State, but at the same time the US
(the US has supported Al Qaeda and its affiliated organizations for almost half a century since the
heyday of the Soviet Afghan war. CIA training camps were set up in Pakistan. In the ten year period
from 1982 to 1992, some 35,000 jihadists from 43 Islamic countries were recruited by the CIA to
fight in the Afghan jihad. Since the Reagan Administration, Washington has supported the Islamic
terror network) and its allies including France are State sponsors of the Islamic state which is an Al
Qaeda affiliated entity. French officials sent armed to the rebels of Libya. So, Paris France was
victim of a carefully organized terrorist attacks in different locations of the Paris metropolitan areas.
People say that ISIS are the architects of these evil attacks. Also, it is important to defend justice,
but not support Islamophobia as Muslims should be treated with dignity and with respect. We
believe in human rights and liberty.
French political elites for years and decades have hypocritically lectured the world on secularism
and the separation of church and state, but they have aided a fundamentalist regime of Saudi
Arabia. The crimes of France against Haiti, Algeria, and other places of Africa has been omitted by
the corporate media. There is no excuse for French colonialism at all. The attacks in Paris should be
condemned. Yet, also, the attacks in the Middle East which have been executed by Western
imperialists ought to be condemned fully as well. The attacks have been exploited by the French
political establishment in order for them to advance police state laws and policies. The more that
we respect the humanity of innocent citizens of Paris and the innocent people of the Middle East
plus Africa, then the better off that we will be. Both Boko Haram and ISIS are evil organizations.
There is the double standard shown by the corporate media. The deaths of black Africans are
shown in a lesser degree by the corporate media than the deaths of the residents of Europe when
any death of any innocent human being (regardless of nationality) should be condemned.

Nous croyons en l'amour, la tolerance, l'espoir, l'action et la

dignite humaine.
The Slander against Syrian Refugees
In America, U.S. politicians have exploited the Paris attacks to promote overt xenophobia. The USA
has a great responsibility in the refugee crisis by stoking civil war in Syria. Many U.S. politicians and
some GOP Presidential candidates have called for further restrictions on the admission of those
fleeing disaster in the Middle East. The coordinated media blitz has shown many Republican
candidates spewing overtly fascist views like Donald Trump and Ted Cruz. Over 26 Governors said
that they refuse to allow refugees from Syria enter their states, which is a disgrace. Republicans in
the U.S House of Representatives support a bill that would prevent the federal government from
taking in Syrian refugees. Trump and other have talked about closure of some mosques, exclusion
of refugees on the basis of religion (like Jeb Bush), and even using concentration camps to hold
migrants. Donald Trump, the billionaire real estate mogul and Republican presidential candidate,
declared in an interview Monday, I would hate to do it [shut down mosques], but its something
that youre going to have to strongly consider because some of the ideas and some of the hatred
the absolute hatredis coming from these areas. On Tuesday, Louisiana governor Bobby Jindal
said he had issued an executive order telling state police to track Syrian refugees. I issued an
executive order telling my agencies to do everything we can. Ive ordered the state police to track

the ones that are already in Louisiana, he declared. Perhaps most provocatively, David A. Bowers,
the mayor of Roanoke, Virginia, approvingly invoked Americas shameful history of interning
Japanese Americans in concentration camps during the Second World War. Im reminded that
President Franklin D. Roosevelt felt compelled to sequester Japanese foreign nationals after the
bombing of Pearl Harbor, and it appears that the threat of harm to America from Isis now is just as
real and serious as that from our enemies then, Bowers wrote in a letter quoted by the Roanoke
Times. Right now, hate crimes against Muslims have occurred in vengeance against innocent
Muslims. The Council on American Islamic Relations (CAIR) said Monday that it has received
documentation in recent days of vandalism and threats targeting mosques in Texas, Kentucky,
Virginia, Nebraska, Tennessee, Ohio, New York, and other states.
It added, Those incidents fit a pattern of increased hate-motivated crimes and bias incidents
nationwide targeting persons and property associated, or perceived to be associated, with Islam
and the American Muslim community. In response to the statements of Republicans, the Obama
administration, which has deported more immigrants than any other presidency in US history and
has slammed the door in the faces of the vast majority of people fleeing Syria, has taken a posture
of beneficence toward refugees. The President has said that he wanted about a few thousands
refugees in America. Even that small number has been opposed by xenophobic American
extremists.

That same day, New Jersey governor and fellow Republican presidential hopeful Chris Christie said
in a radio interview that he would not permit any refugees into the country, including orphans
under age 5. Christie is a cruel man. Texas senator Ted Cruz, another candidate for the Republican
presidential nomination, said Monday he would seek to ban Syrian Muslims from entering the US,
while admitting Christians. There is no meaningful risk of Christians committing acts of terror.
Cruz said at a news conference at a middle school gymnasium in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina. So,
many of these GOP candidates like Trump are not only Islamophobic, but they are fascists. Speaking
in Turkey Tuesday, Obama referred to some of the proposals from Republican candidates,
declaring, Thats not American, that is not who we are. We dont have religious tests to our
compassion. White House officials subsequently said governors did not have the authority to
influence federal immigration policy, and added that Obama would veto the Republicans bill to
restrict the admission of refugees. He or the President should veto that restriction. The Syrian
refugees are the victims of this crisis. 200,000 have been killed at least as a product of the Syrian
civil war. Millions of refugees of Syria travel in the Middle East, Europe, etc. Obama and Hollande

are united to using bombing campaigns in Syria, so Western hegemony can spread in the region via
military force.

The Mali Hotel Attack

The situation in Mali has existed for a long time. There is the existence of the Taureg in the North
and the other ethnic groups in the South that disagree on politics, culture, and on government.
Many terrorists have exploited the differences between the Northern and Southern regions of Mali
as a means for them to promote conflicts. Also, the following words must be said. The truth must
be told. Mali has been a victim of French neocolonialism for a long time. I read a lot about the
history of Mali and France. So, French colonialism is evil just like terrorism is evil too. French
military forces have occupied Mali for generations. Im glad that the Hotel was finally freed from the
terrorists, but things get deeper. Many of the terrorists have been aided not only by the Gulf States,
but by the West. One example is how the West aided the Libyan terrorists, the Mujahedeen back in
the late 1970s-1980, etc. France also massively bombed Libya. Assad is an autocratic leader that I
dont agree with on many issues, but he didnt originate ISIS. ISIS came about as a result of Iraqi war
and occupation. ISIS has been made up of many Sunnis who were radicalized unfortunately to do
nihilistic actions. Turkey is headed by a dictator who has suppressed free speech rights and bombed
Kurds in Northern Syria. Russia is a nationalist country, but even Russia isnt responsible for the
attacks in Paris or in the origin of the Syrian civil war. Western-backed NGOs and other forces aided
the coup in Ukraine and Ukraine is headed by a neoliberal puppet leader (many people in Ukraine
have ties to neo-Nazis and other far right extremists). Crimea became independent via referendum,
which they have a right to do. Eastern Ukrainian freedom fighters are desiring autonomy and

independence. A certain segment of the terrorists have been financed, aided, and organized by
money from the Gulf States and by the West (directly and indirectly).

Closing Statements

There should be an international collaboration among nations, etc. to use national and international
law to make sure that criminals (whether they are terrorists found in the Middle East or terrorists
found in the Western political establishment) are held accountable along with political long term
solutions being established.

By Timothy

Appendix A: Je Ne suis Pas Charlie

Je ne suis pas Charlie is not only a phrase, but its a movement. France is filled with some people
who are imperialists, xenophobes, Islamophobes, anti-Semites, racists, and other evil people and
their views should be always repudiated (and opposed). There was the terrorist attack of the
Charlie Hebdo headquarters in France, which was evil and unjustified. There is no excuse for killing
innocent human life no matter what they show or say. Over 10 people died from the attack on early
January 7, 2015. It started when 2 masked men, who had assault rifles and rocket-propelled
grenades (including bulletproof vests), shot at the satirical weekly Charlie Hebdo in Paris. The
cartoonists Charb, Cabu, Tignous, and Wolinski were killed. The people who were the suspects were
Said Kouachi and Cherif Kouachi, two brothers, both French and in their early 30s, and 18-year-old
Hamyd Mourad. Both brothers were later killed by French authorities. Mourad subsequently walked
into a police station about 145 kilometres from Paris and is now in custody. Another attack carried
out by Amedy Coulibaly came in a kosher shop. He was later murdered, but his wife is probably in
Syria as she escaped. It is already documented that Coulibaly and the Kouachi brothers were known
to the intelligence services and to police. The Kouachi brothers were under intelligence surveillance
from November 2011 to June 2014; they were also placed on British and US surveillance lists. From
2011 to 2013, one of the brothers repeatedly traveled to Islamist training camps in Yemen.

As for Coulibaly, he was convicted for having plotted the jailbreak of an Islamist activist. He met
Cherif Kouachi in prison. Its a fact that in an interview with Le Monde, President Franois Hollande
even insisted that France had been arming Syrian Islamist forces as far back as the spring of 2013.
Such forces, when deployed in Syria, can rely on training and operational assistance from French
soldiers and CIA agents. So when the famous march in Paris came to promote Charlie, man of the
leaders in various nations (like Holande, Benjamin Netanyahu., Ukrainian President Petro
Poroshenko, David Cameron, etc.) were in favor of the same imperialism and anti-democratic
policies that they (or the leaders of western imperialism not all the protesters there) were
hypocritically protesting against. The January march has 1.5 million people marching in Paris,
about 300,000 in Lyon, 115,000 in Rennes, 100,000 in Bordeaux and 70,000 in Grenoble and St
Etienne. Only 60,000 marched in the Mediterranean port of Marseille, Frances second-largest city,
which also has the largest Muslim population of any French city. I dont agree with the sexist,
Islamophobic, racist, and perverted images from Charlie Hebdo, yet even they or the people who
work there shouldnt be murdered. Also, I dont support the agenda of Charlie Hebdo at all. The
racist depictions (from Charlie Hebdo) of cabinet minister Christiane Taubira as a monkey, and the
kidnapped Nigerian school girls as pregnant welfare recipients make a mockery of the word

satirical. Regardless of how many French politicians are skewered in its pages, it must be pointed
out that Charlie Hebdo indulges in racist hate speech. Also, it is important to condemn the
xenophobic National Front party which is a reactionary organization. France is complicit in the
Maafa, European colonialism of Africa (with the evil 1885 Berlin Conference when European
countries divided up Africa unjustly and against the will of the African people), the harm done to
Haiti, and their neo-imperialism in our generation. People need to know that France tried to
prevent Algeria and Vietnam from having independence during the 20th century. Murder is wrong
when committed by individual gunmen with grudges and it is still wrong when it comes from a
drone strike. There are many great people of France who want liberty and justice, but we condemn
French imperialism. So, Je ne suis pas Charlie.
Charlie Hebdo has made disrespectful comments and images before. Now, they have once again
shown themselves to be racists, hypocrites, and totally inconsiderate. They recently showed a
cartoon that attacked Aylan Kurdi, who was a three year old boy, who drowned in the coast of
Turkey in 2015. For them to do that shows what kind of people from Charlie Hebdo are. The
cartoon was created by Riss, who was a survivor of the Charlie Hebdo attacks. Under a caption
asking, What would little Aylan have become had he grown up? Riss drew a series of caricatures
of a drowned boy getting up, getting larger as he grows up, acquiring a pig-like snout, and running
after a frightened blonde woman, and answered: A groper in Germany. The blatant appeal to
racism and anti-Muslim prejudices, which would not have been out of place in the pages of the Nazi
propaganda sheet Der Strmer, drew international condemnation. Aylans aunt Tima Kurdi, who is
now living as a refugee in Canada, told CBC News that the cartoon was disgusting, adding: I hope
people respect our familys pain. Its a big loss to us. Were not the same anymore after this
tragedy. Were trying to forget a little bit and move on with our life. But to hurt us again, its not
fair. The cartoon is also disrespectful to the victims of sexual abuse and rape. Many people in
France condemned the cartoon too. The Charlie Hebdos readership has quadrupled to increase to
200,000. Charlie Hebdo attacking an innocent child is part of the evil agenda of demonizing
refugees (so, nations can use repulsive measures against immigrants in general). Charlie Hebdo
mocked the poor and they ignore how many terrorists ae aided by the West. The French
government has a military, imperial agenda in Africa and the Middle East. The neo-fascist National
Front party is growing in France too. In this political context, Charlie Hebdo has facilitated the
growth of a form of politicized anti-Muslim sentiment that bears a disturbing resemblance to the
politicized anti-Semitism that emerged as a mass movement in France in the 1890s (when the
innocent Jewish man Dreyfus was falsely convicted of espionage). In France now, there is a state of
emergency where fundamental democratic rights ae curtailed. Charlie Hebdos slanderous attack
on a dead and defenseless boy represents how many evil people hate human dignity and
democratic rights.

By Timothy

Le terrorisme est mauvais et l'imperialisme est errone.

Nous aurons la justice.

Liberte, egalite, fraternite

Solidarite