By Nicholas Vinocur and Antony Paone
PARIS (Reuters) – Hooded gunmen(click here) stormed the Paris offices of a weekly satirical magazine renowned for lampooning radical Islam, killing at least 12 people, including two police officers in the worst militant attack on French soil in recent decades.
One of the men was captured on video shouting “Allah!” as four shots rang out. Two assailants are then seen calmly leaving the scene and remain at large....
The offices where they occurred was assessed before today. The killers and/or accomplices were knowledgeable as to who sat at what desks. This attack could have been avoided if the policies of the satirists newspaper had closed a loop. Guests into their offices have to be qualified with a background check AND a sincere interest in their product.
Close the loops and keep offices safe. Security is well known to The West and it will be appreciated. Open public forums are more difficult, but, metal detectors can be an alert. A local economy can be effected if liberties are robbed from citizens. Local economies have local governments to consider this danger and decide the best methods to secure their citizens.
But, I also note the Tsarnaev brother is on trial in Massachusetts. These killers are found and do face justice.
I do believe this was to return global media to the attention of Violent Islam. "The Interview" didn't place the highest priority of fear on Islam. Violent Islam wants the attention of the global community to manufacture fear. The more Violent Islam is receiving attention by media the more it inspires them to continue to cause this mayhem globally. I have other better things to do then propagate fear of immoral killers.
