Courtesy of Mish.
ISIS Claims Only The Beginning
Lots of fresh details this morning on the terror in Paris. The First Attacker Identified.
France could extend its state of emergency beyond 12 days, the prime minister has said, as officials identified one of the Paris terror attackers as Omar Ismael Mostefai, a 29-year-old Frenchman of Algerian origin, who had been flagged for links to Islamist radicalism.
Manuel Valls said the state of emergency, which gives sweeping investigating powers to police, could be extended. This would require a vote in parliament.
He said France would extend its action in Syria in the coming days to “hit, annihilate Daesh”, the name French officials use to describe Isis. He said France’s strategy in Syria would be debated in parliament in eight days time.
A Syrian passport — confirmed as being used in Greece last month — was found near one of the attackers close to France’s national stadium where three explosions occurred.
Isis issued a statement on Saturday saying “this is only the beginning of the storm” after French president François Hollande blamed the bloody attacks on the organisation in a televised address.
French interior minister Bernard Cazeneuve has laid out new security measures as part of the national state of emergency: police will be allowed to restrict circulation in some areas, perform house searches more easily, and shut down businesses such as concert halls and bars. Demonstrations will not be authorised in Paris until Thursday and security at railway stations and airports will be reinforced.
Events in Paris are unlikely to make the chance of a peaceful solution in Syria any easier, however, and are instead likely to play into the hands of hawks keen to ramp up military action and foreign supporters of Syrian president Bashar al-Assad. Washington and its allies say Mr Assad’s brutality and connivance created Isis.
ISIS a US/UK Creation
The idea that Assad’s brutality created ISIS is absurd. ISIS arose in the wake of the US taking out Saddam Hussein for no good reason.
Note that UK Prime Minister Tony Blair Apologized for Creation of ISIS.
A bit of honesty and self-assessment from the US would be a welcome event. But don’t expect that to happen. The US never admits anything, but instead keeps making the same mistakes over and over again….
