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France in the firing line of the “new jihad”
He believes Belmokhtar is trying to inspire individual jihadists to carry out their own attacks, much like those by Mohamed Merah, who carried out a shooting spree around Toulouse last year.
“Belmokhtar [is] not able to build a big group to attack France,” argues Mr Trevidic. “So he said, ‘you are already in France do what you can. Do the jihad by yourselves. Fight France by all means you can find.’”
Despite the heightened threats to the country, Mr Trevidic says France was right to intervene in Mali.
“France didn’t want to go alone in the beginning in Mali but it had no choice. Because can you imagine all these Islamic groups in Bamako?
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“New”. Right.
And Mali is on France’s “doorstep”.
Luckily, Hamas and the PLO are hundreds of miles away from Israel.
Ben Hur on January 24, 2013 at 5:14 PM
Riiiiiight.
BigGator5 on January 24, 2013 at 5:17 PM
Good.
I’m sure meeting them with tolerance will be the winning way.
If they teach them about chain smoking, rich sauces and having a blahzay’ approach to life, that will surely turn they into fellow cheese eating surrender monkeys.
Good luck.
Adieu.
Mimzey on January 24, 2013 at 5:22 PM
More cars to be burned by “indeterminate youths”, I guess …
ThePrimordialOrderedPair on January 24, 2013 at 5:23 PM
Those crazy indeterminate youths.
Paul-Cincy on January 24, 2013 at 5:34 PM
Bonne!
vityas on January 24, 2013 at 6:38 PM
Too bad there’s no Charles Martel left in the land of brie and wine to replicate the last time the French successfully defended themselves (ironically, against Islamists).
Steve Eggleston on January 24, 2013 at 6:43 PM
Last time I was in France they had managed to create quite a big problem for themselves through they’re immigration process. Unless that has changed they are going to have a tough time here directly. I don’t think it has changed. They are in fact still on track for being outnumbered. Us too if we don’t wake the heII up.
Bmore on January 24, 2013 at 6:45 PM