Re:Paris Shootings and Explosions Kill Over 100, Police Say
by toyg on Friday November 13, 2015 @07:58PM
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By making the secret services work for their money on real problems, instead of fretting about tapping media pirates and suchlike. By having a foreign policy that does not rely on military intervention at the drop of a hat. By not starting fires all over the place. The list is long and well-known.
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Re:Paris Shootings and Explosions Kill Over 100, Police Say
by S4M on Friday November 13, 2015 @08:17PM
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I don't think any secret service could prevent any isolated individual to make at home, say, Molotov cocktails, and throw them by car in a crowd.
Re:Paris Shootings and Explosions Kill Over 100, Police Say
by toyg on Friday November 13, 2015 @08:38PM
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But these weren't isolated individuals. This was an organised network with grenades and assault rifles and the training to handle them.
This is not a Breivik, or a "Shoe Bomber" Reid; this is '70s-style, organised, cross-border terrorism -- the sort of which "we" were supposed to be good at handling by now.