{"id":62850,"date":"2015-11-18T09:00:19","date_gmt":"2015-11-18T14:00:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=62850"},"modified":"2015-11-18T07:49:36","modified_gmt":"2015-11-18T12:49:36","slug":"raids-in-france-kill-2-arrest-7","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=62850","title":{"rendered":"Raids in France kill 2, arrest 7"},"content":{"rendered":"

Early this morning, French authorities raided an apartment looking for Abdelhamid Abaaoud, the mastermind of the attack last week in Paris. According to Fox News<\/a>, two terrorists were killed and seven arrested. One of the dead was a woman, supposedly Abaaoud’s cousin, with a suicide vest who detonated herself and took out a police dog in the process. Five French police officers were slightly injured in the hour-long gun battle.<\/p>\n

Police vans and fire trucks rushed to the scene north of Paris, just over a mile from the Stade de France stadium, which was targeted by three suicide bombers during Friday’s attacks. Riot police cleared people from the streets, pointing guns at curious residents to move them off the roads.<\/p>\n

Residents said an initial explosion shook the neighborhood at about 4 a.m. (10 p.m. EST).<\/p>\n

“Then there was second big explosion. Then two more explosions. There was an hour of gunfire,” said Baptiste Marie, a 26-year-old independent journalist who lives in the neighborhood.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

While the raid was happening, French President Francois Hollande was talking to the country’s mayors about all of the things that he was doing to make his country safe from terrorists. Of course, Hollande ran for President on the promise that he’d get France out of the war against terror, and his first act in office was to announce the early withdrawal of French forces from Afghanistan. You know, just like Obama promised to withdraw from Iraq during his presidential campaign in 2008. You could call their current situation karma or irony, except that both were totally predictable.<\/p>\n

The Wall Street Journal<\/a> reports that France now wants some sort of Grand Alliance with the US and Russia, but I think it’s not in the cards at this point. All three have frittered away the opportunity to end the Syrian civil war, which is at the root of the existence of ISIS, lest we forget. France and the US want Assad out, while Russia is hoping to keep him on his throne. <\/p>\n

In related news<\/a>, two Air France flights from the US to France were diverted due to bomb threats. Neither bomb threat turned out to be true, however.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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