'Two dead' and several injured as magazine attackers seize hostages and exchange fire with police near Paris airport

'Two dead' and several injured as magazine attackers seize hostages and exchange fire with police near Paris airport

News Updates from CLG
9 January 2015

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Previous edition: New York City steps up security at French Consulate and for prominent media organizations after Paris terror attack, which CIAssociate relegated to the spam bin. See: Google Filter Instructions for CLG Newsletter.

 

Breaking: 'Two dead' and several injured as magazine attackers seize hostages and exchange fire with police after they storm business premises near Paris airport | 9 Jan 2015 | The [alleged] Charlie Hebdo gunmen were today exchanging fire with police as they held hostages on an industrial estate near a Paris airport. At least two people are thought to have been killed and several wounded before Cherif and Said Kouachi entered business premises in the village of Dammartin-en-Goele, north-east of the capital. They are believed to have taken hostages with them into a storage unit, which is now surrounded by police commandos who have begun negotiations to try to secure their release...As helicopters hovered overhead, France's Interior Minister Bernard Cazeneuve said: 'A police operation is underway.' Flights into the nearby Charles de Gaulle international airport have been aborted due to its proximity to the siege, around seven miles away.

 

Terror suspects hunt: Shooting as French police close in | 9 Jan 2015 |One person has reportedly been shot dead in northern France as police close in on gunmen suspected of killing staff at Charlie Hebdo magazine in Paris. Several other people were wounded in the shooting in Dammartin-en-Goele, about 35km (22 miles) from the capital. At least one hostage has been taken at a warehouse in the small town, French media reports suggest.

 

SWAT teams going door-to-door in French towns, searching for terror suspects --Manhunt included thousands of police and investigators - prime minister | 8 Jan 2015 | (Crépy-en-Valois, France) Authorities swarmed French villages, scoured surveillance video, questioned witnesses and tried to soothe a nervous country on Thursday as they hunted for two brothers suspected in the massacre at Charlie Hebdo magazine. Armored cars and scores of police officers and anti-terror forces descended on quiet towns and farmhouses in hopes of capturing Cherif and Said Kouachi...Police operations included the military's GIGN special forces unit, dressed in fatigues and ski masks and carrying camouflaged rifles. "They went room by room looking for anybody hiding," Lassad Toumi told NBC News after he came home from feeding his horses and was stopped by SWAT teams who said they wanted to search his home for his own safety.

 

Al-Qaeda is plotting Paris-style attack against Britain --MI5 wants 'enhanced access' to digital communications | 8 Jan 2015 | Al-Qaeda is planning a Paris-style terrorist atrocity against Britain, according to the head of MI5. Andrew Parker, the Director General of the Security Service, warned that the threat of a "mass casualty attack" was growing and that intelligence pointed to the existence of specific plots. Security was stepped up on Wednesday at British ports, and armed police were put on patrol at the Eurostar terminal at London's St Pancras station. Mr Parker warned that although three terrorist plots had been foiled in recent months, it was almost inevitable that one would eventually succeed...It is feared that a lack of cooperation from internet companies means that there is a risk of terrorists slipping through the net because MI5 cannot track them. Mr Parker warned that terrorists may soon be able "to operate beyond our reach" as he renewed calls for enhanced access to digital communications.

 

Mohammed Atta's passport survived World Trade Center flames of 9/11; Paris gunman who attacked with 'military precision' left ID on seat of getaway car By Lori Price, www.legitgov.org | 8 Jan 2015 | Mohammed Atta and the Paris gunman: These highly-trained terrorists can take down buildings and execute people with the precision of an elite military unit -- and yet, they both fumbled and dropped their identification near their crime scenes! (Tortured) 9/11 suspect Mohammed Atta, who left his passport near the World Trade Centerfollowing the attacks (conveniently quickly located by US investigators, unlike the black boxes). Today, we learn: 'A national identity card was found in the getaway car used by the gunmen who attacked the satirical weekly Charlie Hebdo, French officials said Thursday.' (See: Alleged Gunman in Paris Attack Left ID in Car, 8 Jan 2015.) Alleged Paris shooter Said Kouachi--who executed a terrorist attack that, by nearly every analyst's account, had the hallmarks of an elite military unit--left his identity card on the seat of his getaway car! File this most recent 'coincidence' under 'things that defy the imagination.'

 

One day before terror attack in Paris: France to send aircraft carrier to Gulf in 'Islamic State' fight | 6 Jan 2015 | The French aircraft carrier Charles de Gaulle and its fleet will be deployed to the Gulf to support operations against the Islamic State group, a military news site reported on Tuesday. The deployment of the marine battle group is due to be announced by President Francois Hollande when he gives his annual new year's speech to the armed forces onboard the Charles de Gaulle on January 14, according to the "Mer et Marine" news site.

 

GOP Senators: Paris Shooting Justifies NSA Powers | 7 Jan 2015 | The pendulum between protecting civil liberties and thwarting terrorism may once again be up for debate now that Republicans chair key Senate committees. "If it can happen in Paris, it can happen in New York again or Washington, D.C.," says Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Nutjob), now chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee...In the last year, there have been significant bipartisan efforts in Congress to rein in NSA surveillance and provide oversight on the CIA's past use of torture on detainees. Some in Congress say the shooting in Paris should remind the public that maybe that debate has gone too far.

 

Pharma-terrorism in Connecticut: Connecticut Supreme Court upholds ruling that teen must undergo chemo'therapy' [poisoning-for-profit] | 8 Jan 2015 | The Connecticut Supreme Court upheld a prior ruling Thursday that a 17-year-old cancer patient cannot refuse chemotherapy treatment for Hodgkin lymphoma. The state argued that the teen lacked competency extended to maturity, as well, and that they did not believe she understood the severity of her prognosis. The teen...identified by police as Cassandra Callender, ran away after two treatments in November and, with the support of her mother, refused any more when she returned. The teen believes the chemotherapy will do more damage to her body than the cancer will, according to the Hartford Courant. Connecticut Supreme Court rejects 'mature minor doctrine' and rules a 17-year-old girl with Hodgkin's lymphona can be forced to undergo chemotherapy.

 

California Sen. Barbara Boxer Won't Run Again in 2016 | 8 Jan 2015 | California Democrat Sen. Barbara Boxer announced Thursday that she will not run for re-election in 2016. In a video "interview" with her grandson posted on YouTube, Boxer said "I want to come home. I want to come home to the state I love so much, California." "I am never going to retire," she said in the video. "The work is too important. But I will not be running for the Senate in 2016."

 

Honda Hit With Record $70 Million Fine for Not Reporting Deaths --The penalty stems from the automaker's failure to report 1,729 death and injury claims to the agency for the past 11 years. | 8 Jan 2015 | The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration has fined Honda Motor 70 million for failing to submit reports of fatal accidents and injuries to the government. Rick Schostek, a top executive at Honda North America, testified at a Senate hearing last week. He later said an audit identified "difficult facts about where we did not meet our obligations." It is the largest amount that the safety regulator has ever levied against an automaker.

 

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