"" 12 Dead in Attack on Paris
Newspaper Charlie Hebdo,
Including the Editor
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
JANUARY 7, 2015
PARIS — Masked gunmen shouting
"Allahu akbar!" stormed the Paris
offices of a satirical newspaper
Wednesday, killing 12 people,
including the paper's editor, before
escaping in a getaway car. It was
France's deadliest terror attack in
living memory.
French Interior Minister Bernard
Cazeneuve said security forces
were hunting for three gunmen
after the noon-time attack on the
weekly, whose caricatures of the
Prophet Muhammed have
frequently drawn condemnation
from Muslims. Twelve people died
and eight were wounded, including
four critically, officials said.
French President Francois Hollande
called the slayings "a terrorist
attack without a doubt" and said
several other attacks have been
thwarted in France "in recent
weeks."
There was no immediate claim of
responsibility.
Clad all in black with hoods and
machine guns and speaking
flawless French, the attackers
forced one of the cartoonists at the
weekly Charlie Hebdo — at the
office with her young daughter —
to open the door.
The staff was in an editorial
meeting and the gunmen headed
straight for the paper's editor,
Stephane Charbonnier — widely
known by his pen name Charb —
killing him and his police
bodyguard, said Christophe Crepin,
a police union spokesman on the
scene. Minutes later, two men
strolled out to a black car waiting
below, calmly firing on a police
officer, with one gunman shooting
him in the head as he writhed on
the ground.
Ten journalists were killed and two
police, Crepin said, one of them
assigned as Charb's bodyguard and
another who had arrived on the
scene on a mountain bike.
"Hey! We avenged the Prophet
Muhammed! We killed Charlie
Hebdo," one of the men shouted,
according to a video filmed from a
nearby building and broadcast on
French television. Other video
images showed two gunmen in
black at a crossroads who appeared
to fire down one of the streets. A
cry of "Allahu akbar!" — Arabic for
"God is great"— could be heard
among the gunshots.
The gunmen abandoned their car
at the northern Porte de Patin and
escaped, Paris police said.
Corinne Rey, the cartoonist who
said she was forced to let the
gunmen in, said the men spoke
fluent French and claimed to be
from al-Qaida. In an interview with
the newspaper l'Humanite, she said
the entire shooting lasted perhaps
five minutes.
France raised its security alert to
the highest level and reinforced
protective measures at houses of
worship, stores, media offices and
transportation. Top government
officials held an emergency
meeting and Hollande planned a
nationally televised address in the
evening. Schools across the French
capital closed their doors.
World leaders — including
President Barack Obama, German
Chancellor Angela Merkel, Russian
President Vladimir Putin and
British Prime Minister David
Cameron — condemned the attack,
but supporters of the militant
Islamic State group celebrated the
slayings as well-deserved revenge
against France.
Both al-Qaida and the Islamic State
group have repeatedly threatened
to attack France. Just minutes
before the attack, Charlie Hebdo
had tweeted a satirical cartoon of
the Islamic State's leader giving
New Year's wishes. Another
cartoon, released in this week's
issue and entitled "Still No Attacks
in France," had a caricature of a
jihadi fighter saying "Just wait —
we have until the end of January
to present our New Year's wishes."
"This is the darkest day of the
history of the French press," said
Christophe DeLoire of Reporters
Without Borders.
Luc Poignant of the SBP police
union said the attackers left in a
waiting car and later switched to
another vehicle that had been
stolen.
Obama's top spokesman said U.S.
officials have been in close contact
with the French since the attack.
"We know they are not going to be
cowed by this terrible act,"
spokesman Josh Earnest said.
On social media, supporters of
militant Islamic groups praised the
move. One Twitter user who
identified themselves as a Tunisian
loyalist of al-Qaida and the Islamic
State group called the attack well-
deserved revenge against France.
Elsewhere on the Internet, the
hashtag #JeSuisCharlie was
trending as people expressed
support for weekly and for
journalistic freedom.
Charlie Hebdo has been repeatedly
threatened for its caricatures of the
Prophet Muhammad and other
controversial sketches. Its offices
were firebombed in 2011 after a
spoof issue featuring a caricature
of the prophet on its cover. Nearly
a year later, the publication again
published crude Muhammad
caricatures, drawing denunciations
from around the Muslim world,
since Islam prohibits the
publication of drawings of its
founder.
Wednesday's attack comes the
same day of the release of a book
by a celebrated French novelist
depicting France's election of its
first Muslim president. Hollande
had been due to meet with the
country's top religious officials
later in the day.""
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Over fricking cartoons.....

Nsfw or the squeamish.....video of part of the attack....fricking animals


http://m.liveleak.com/view?i=60f_1420633950

@WalkSoftly: I heard about this. Sorry I can't watch the video:-(.
Right now, I'm unable to even post my reactions or thoughts or feelings.. Until MY God, gives me the words. I'm just not nice on my own or too human :-(

A little more about the paper "Charlie Hebdo"....

"" But Charlie Hebdo has been a target for a
long time, thanks to a long history of
intentionally controversial and provocative
cartoons and covers. First founded in 1970
when its predecessor was shut down by the
French government (for making fun of
Charles de Gaulle—more below), then again
in 1992 after ten years out of print, Charlie
Hebdo is like a more gleefully and pointedly
offensive politically conscious French Mad
magazine (with which it shares an affection
for vulgarity and distaste for subtlety).
Hebdo's stance is vocally left, anti-
authoritarian, anti-religious, and anti-
institutional, but it tends to get the most
attention when it undertakes one of its
yearly-or-so projects illustrating
Muhammad cartoons.""
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Ill try to post some of their cartoons in the following posts....

"100 lashes if you dont die laughing" and "Love is greater than hate"

Btw, theyre an equal oppurtunity mocker......

Apparently Muslim extremists will do anything to shut people up that they don't share their same views.

Which brings up a good point....those cartoons those idiot terrorists were trying to silence, are now being posted all over the internet via social media. Instead of JUST that newspaper posting them, millions of images of the poor "prophet" being satired are being seen via Facebook, Twitter, and other outlets. Aint that a bitch?

Just to piggyback off that point, just saw this on Twitter:

" Philly.com @ phillydotcom 24m
Cartoonists across the globe react to
#CharlieHebdo massacre
bit.ly/1BIAReb pic.twitter.com/
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