Gunmen attack Charlie Hebdo HQ in Paris - at least 10 killed

[dorgie]

Charlie Hebdo French satirical magazine HQ. Crazy stuff. Probably all journalists killed.

 

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-30710883

 

RIP

[Rimbeux]

This is absolutely chilling. But these fanatics will never win

[Hassony]

That's crazy

[dorgie]

This is absolutely chilling. But these fanatics will never win

 

Chilling is right. Will be hard for the families of the deceased to take consolation from the fact that they'll never win though - unfortunately.

[Hus]

 

 

An eyewitness, Benoit Bringer, told French TV channel Itele: "Two black-hooded men entered the building with Kalashnikovs.

"A few minutes later we heard lots of shots."

 

Crazy - also reports of a suicide bomber in Istanbul

 

http://www.aljazeera.com/news/middleeast/2015/01/policeman-injured-istanbul-bomb-attack-20151615551340942.html

[Stanley Leisure]

We're just going to have to live with attacks like this forever, aren't we?

[cymrococh]

We're just going to have to live with attacks like this forever, aren't we?

We have done really.

[Cobs]

don't understand how two blokes can carry out this attack, stand brazenly in the street firing at the police (as new emerging footage seems to show) and then drive off without being apprehended.

[Stanley Leisure]

We have done really.

 

Yes, fair point.

 

I guess what I mean is that there is no ceasefire to be brokered.

[Dan]

Horrible b*****ds.

[Cobs]

gunmen were supposedly asking for people by name in the building - editor and lead cartoonist among those killed

[Dan]

gunmen were supposedly asking for people by name in the building - editor and lead cartoonist among those killed

 

Cartoonist was on the Al Quaeda's top 10 most wanted list in 2013 apparently.

[New York Red]

Jesus, there is such a thing?

[Cam]

Jesus, there is such a thing?

Don't you start!

[muleskinner]

It was an editorial meeting about a future edition to be called Sharia Hebdo apparently, all the journalists were in the office.

[Cobs]

footage of them murdering a policeman on the news is a bit much

[Stanley Leisure]

footage of them murdering a policeman on the news is a bit much

 

Seriously? f***ing hell.

[Cobs]

 

Seriously? f***ing hell.

 

the individual has been blurred/pixelated and the footage pauses right at the final moment but in time it will emerge who that was

[Redray]

footage of them murdering a policeman on the news is a bit much

Is that the one when he's on the floor and puts his hand up to them and is shot in head? Thought that was a fleeing journo. sickening.

[Stevie H]

gunmen were supposedly asking for people by name in the building - editor and lead cartoonist among those killed

 

i don't really know where we go from a position where lunatics will commit mass murder like this over a f***ing cartoon.

[Eiler99]

This is crazy.

[Earl Hafler]

 

Yes, fair point.

 

I guess what I mean is that there is no ceasefire to be brokered.

 

No. How do you procure a ceasefire or settlement with someone willing to blow themselves up with explosive or murder someone over a satirical cartoon ?

[Stanley Leisure]

 

No. How do you procure a ceasefire or settlement with someone willing to blow themselves up with explosive or murder someone over a satirical cartoon ?

 

Exactly. There's seemingly no shortage of willing martyrs and, as the west has proved, there's no one country or area that can be attacked or sanctioned to stop it.

 

It's so f*cking depressing.

[Hassony]

 

Exactly. There's seemingly no shortage of willing martyrs and, as the west has proved, there's no one country or area that can be attacked or sanctioned to stop it.

 

It's so f*cking depressing.

Saudi Arabia, the root of all terrorist issues

[Stanley Leisure]

Saudi Arabia, the root of all terrorist issues

 

Maybe once, not any more.