This is a developing story and it has global ramifications ..
At least 12 now dead after what the nation of France is considering a terror attack..two of the dead are police officers..
The shooting took place at the offices of the magazine CHARLIE HEBDO..that magazine has been running satirical images mocking Mohammed recently..
Kim Hjelmgaard of USA TODAY writes,
Armed gunmen wearing black hoods stormed the offices of the publication in a suburb of the city before firing automatic weapons in a scene police described as “carnage,” local media reported. The attackers were heard shouting “Allahu Akbar,” an Islamic phrase that means “God is great.”
The masked men who went into the name and asked for specific names before the shooting began walked out and got away..
They were also armed with a rocket launcher along with their Kalashinkovs..
Minutes before the shooting, CHARLIE HEBDO tweeted a satirical image of Mohammed.. Moments later their office building was under siege and the murderous rampage took place..
There is also video of the attacks.. raw video showcasing the shootings.. Originally, the media reported that they had video but chose, initially,not to air footage. That self imposed embargo has been obliterated after the video streamed online millions of times over already.. in the footage, sounds of gunfire can be clearly heard, as can frequent shouts of Allahu Akbar..
Jean Cabut, a graphic artist known to readers by his pen name Cabu, and Stéphane Charbonnier, the magazine’s editor in chief known by his pseudonym Charb, were among the dead, the police said..
Since the attack, a car bombing has made news in Paris.. French media reports indicate that an explosion took place outside of a Synagogue in Sarcellas.. There is video of the aftermath of the car bombing here..
The killings also follow the official warning of attacks that were previously heralded..
Three terror suspects are on the loose..
Developing story..
Breaking: Car Bomb Reported at Paris Synagogue »
“The aim is to laugh. We want to laugh at the extremists — every extremist. They can be Muslim, Jewish, Catholic. Everyone can be religious, but extremist thoughts and acts we cannot accept.”
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Charlie Hebdo journalist LAURENT LEGER, speaking after the firebombing of his publication’s offices in 2011; the controversial magazine had published caricatures of the prophet Muhammad.
(via Time Magazine)
And the events of today have led to anything but laughter..
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Raw footage of the Paris terror attack..
FLASHBACK: White House slams French magazine Charlie Hebdo over Islam cartoons »
An interesting flasback via poorrichardsnews:
This is from 2012. Leave it to the Obama administration to take the side of the terrorists…
White House Press Secretary Jay Carney on Wednesday criticized the “judgment” of a French satirical magazine for publishing cartoons that are critical of the Islamist political movement, amid the routine threat of attacks by Islamists during President Barack Obama’s re-election campaign.
“We are aware that a French magazine published cartoons featuring a figure resembling the prophet Muhammad, and obviously we have questions about the judgment of publishing something like this,” Carney told reporters during a midday press briefing at the White House.
“We know these images will be deeply offensive to many and have the potential be be inflammatory,” Carney said in a prepared statement.
The French government reacted to the expected threats by temporarily shutting down embassies and schools in 20 countries with significant Muslim populations.
Certainly, in the perceptive of today’s events, this is interesting..
This is an image of a police offering begging for his life at the Charlie Hebdo building.. The media is opting to only show this still image and now the next scene in which the officer has his head blown off..