(edit title) Where is everyone? All the old posters at the local Options

[byke]

I used the search under the user name log in at the top right of this page to find it.

[*Trowbridge H. Ford*]

That's exactly what I did several times yesterday, and again just now and got no results - i.e., asking for 'Swedish police increase security at Jewish schools,' and the result came back with nothing for : 'Swedish, Police, Increase, Security, At, Jewi...'

I now even used my user name, and came up with nothing relevant.

For me, the search engine on this is a dead end.

[Mzungu]

Haha... I've returned from my annual sojourn...and what a sight to be greeted with.Trow old boy wonderful to have you back in circulation, Koos and Dani are over the moon.

"Entry" greetings still listen to "De la Rey"... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7LIgIF9nfyc and the goose pimples still appear. Fishy hi,and the remaining oldies,welcome also to the newbies!

*Rick, I'm Windhoek saturated,see ya later*

[*Trowbridge H. Ford*]

Hi, Mzungu.

Wecome back. Hope you had a pleasant sojurn in SA.

Glad that Koos and Dani are over the moon. Sure beats where they usual are, down in the dumps.

Terrible what happened to those SA rugby players. The oceans around there must be the most dangerous in the world.

Assume everything is ship shape back here, or last least will soon be.

Cheers,
Trow

[Gamla Hälsingebock]

Hey southern guy!

Now when the sun goes back to us you follow it!

We Norrlanders have always been true to our geographical positions in life and do not understand those that gad about recklessly; and then when back they again settle in the southern part of a country that isn't up to northern standards...when will you learn!!!

Welcome back,
GH

[Rick Methven]

*Rick, I'm Windhoek saturated,see ya later*

Did you bring back a few cases, or just tanked up for the next six months in the last couple of days

welcome back

[Mzungu]

Thanks!
Presently haven't the time to engage in a little banter,plenty of crap awaited my return,sorted in a week or so.

*have a nice day, as the yanks say*

[*Trowbridge H. Ford*]

Here is something to sink your teeth into, Mzungu, when you get time:

How French Counterterrorists Improved On Breivik's Cockup
To Make Muslims Look Like Growing Threats
by
Trowbridge H. Ford

Instead of looking backwards in light of Anders Breivik’s massacre, we should look forward to the shootings around Toulouse in France which killed three French soldiers of North African origin, and four Jews, three of them immigrants from Israel.The shootings certainly seem a right-wing improvement on what Breivik did since they set up an appropriate fallguy for the killing, what deranged Breivik had attempted all by himself after the failure of the recruited Muslim suicide bomber to do the job properly in Stockholm on December 11,2010.

The killers in southern France, especially the assassin who was described by witnesses of the Montauban shootings as being blond, fattish, had a tatoo on his body, and scar on his left cheek, decided to set up Mohamed Merah as the killer. Merah had all the right credentials for being he as he had tried to enlist ‘jihadists’ for the wars in Pakistan and Afghanistan.

He was even caught at an American Army checkpoint in Kandahar, and shipped back to France. Washington put him on its ‘no fly’ lists. After that French counterterrorists warned Spanish counterterrorists of his coming for a visit to attend some kind of Al-Qaeda conference, he even went to Israel, it seems, as an alleged tourist.

Little wonder that he was on French watch lists, and the French Ministry of Interior acknowledged that he had long been on its “radar”.

When the first French soldier was shot in Toulouse, its counterterrorists arrested three notorious neo-Nazis who had been expelled from the French Army because of their Nazi antics, but they were released because they had alibis – what seems to have been a deliberate diversion to protect the real killers.

After the second shootings on March 15th, the conspirators, it seems, decided to increase the entrapment by sending threatening letters to two Parisien synagogues, stating:”You are the people of Satin.Hell is waiting for you.”Since these were received before the killing of the four Jews, they certainly seemed part of an on-going conspiracy which had to be ended then as quickly as possible – what was indicated after the same assassin – dressed in black,and carrying a video camera on his chest like Breivik – throwing away the Colt .45 pistol nearby after the killings.

Then the alleged tape of the shootings was sent on a computer stick to Al Jazeera's Paris office where bits of the shootings were recorded while excerpts from the Koran are recited allegedly by Merah - what was finally acknowledged being received early this week, and the French President Sarkozy called successfully for it not to be released by the media because of the distress it would cause the victims' familities.

Then the counterterrorists tried to kill the scapegoat Merah by knocking down his door in the early hours of Thursday morning, hoping that he could be cut down by surprise, but he fought off the attempt.

In the following standoff – the French authorities just waiting until they had spread stories of his alleged confession, and placing the video film of his alleged shootings on some internet site – they killed him in the most destructive way to make it look like there had really been some struggle when he could have been taken alive with use of a tear gas attack.

The only things left for the French authorities to do was to claim that he wanted to die an apparent hero, his killing of the Jews was not planned but was improvised when he missed killing another French soldier, and dragging in his older brother and mother as part of the apparent conspiracy.

The killers of the seven people seem to be still on the loose - what the French authorities are playing down by claiming that they are still looking for an accomplice while arresting 19 known Muslim radicals, the centerpeice of the President's re-election campagin.

[TobyJames]

Hello....
Am new to the local. But thought it was time to find some english peoples..

Live in Skåne...Anyone local

Regards
Toby

[Jamtjim]

How French Counterterrorists Improved On Breivik's Cockup
To Make Muslims Look Like Growing Threats

Nope! Once again fictitious garbage and as before based on absolutely zero evidence. Trowbridge shows not the slightest respect towards the innocent victims of Merah's shootings by dragging their deaths into his mind-numbingly silly conspiracies.

...especially the assassin who was described by witnesses of the Montauban shootings as being blond, fattish, had a tatoo on his body, and scar on his left cheek, ...

Sounds like THF has been watching Pirates of the Caribbean.... arrrrgghh shiver me timbers...

When the first French soldier was shot in Toulouse, its counterterrorists arrested three notorious neo-Nazis who had been expelled from the French Army because of their Nazi antics, but they were released because they had alibis – what seems to have been a deliberate diversion to protect the real killers.

Or, more likely, they were released as despicable characters that as neo-Nazi's they most certainly are, they didn't commit the murder. There is absolutely no indication that they were arrested as a diversion at this wally claims, but as a standard Police procedure when following a potential lead in a murder case.

After the second shootings on March 15th, the conspirators, it seems, decided to increase the entrapment by sending threatening letters to two Parisien synagogues, stating:”You are the people of Satin.Hell is waiting for you.”Since these were received before the killing of the four Jews, they certainly seemed part of an on-going conspiracy which had to be ended then as quickly as possible

Do the "certainly seem" to indicate some wide ranging conspiracy? No, sorry old boy, they seem to indicate the religious hate-fuelled actions of a man who would later go on to commit multiple murder, not the slightest hint of a conspiracy here!

what was indicated after the same assassin – dressed in black,and carrying a video camera on his chest like Breivik – throwing away the Colt .45 pistol nearby after the killings.

"Which was indicated..." Jeez, it certainly does appear were are dealing with the writings of a near illiterate.

Then the alleged tape of the shootings was sent on a computer stick to Al Jazeera's Paris office where bits of the shootings were recorded while excerpts from the Koran are recited allegedly by Merah - what was finally acknowledged being received early this week, and the French President Sarkozy called successfully for it not to be released by the media because of the distress it would cause the victims' familities.

I think we can remove the "alleged" word as the tape was most certainly received by Al Jazeera who quite rightly declined to air it. Good for them, and good for Sarkozy in this case, we certainly do not need even more real life scenes of carnage to float around on the internet so that sickos can be entertained by them. The video exists and it apparently confirms the official story of a Merah as a lone gunman and not that of a group of pirates or anything else spewed out from your diseased and misfiring brain. And by the way it should read "which was finally acknowledged..."

Then the counterterrorists tried to kill the scapegoat Merah by knocking down his door in the early hours of Thursday morning, hoping that he could be cut down by surprise, but he fought off the attempt.

Not scapegoat, perpetrator as proven by the evidence such as the video. Bad luck, better luck next time Trow!

In the following standoff – the French authorities just waiting until they had spread stories of his alleged confession, and placing the video film of his alleged shootings on some internet site – they killed him in the most destructive way to make it look like there had really been some struggle when he could have been taken alive with use of a tear gas attack.

And the evidence for this assertion? None of course not the slighted hint of any. Once again we are asked to believe a story based solely on the authority of the author, an authority which has been expose to be fraudulent on multiple occasions! Lies again I'm afraid!

The only things left for the French authorities to do was to claim that he wanted to die an apparent hero, his killing of the Jews was not planned but was improvised when he missed killing another French soldier, and dragging in his older brother and mother as part of the apparent conspiracy.

Blimey a Jihadist prepared to die for his cause? That's never happened before, I take it all back it must be a conspiracy!

The killers of the seven people seem to be still on the loose - what the French authorities are playing down by claiming that they are still looking for an accomplice while arresting 19 known Muslim radicals, the centerpeice of the President's re-election campagin.

Nope the killer is dead as indicated by ALL the evidence. This has nothing to do with the election and everything to do with a religious nutjob hell-bent on murder. And by the way it should read "which the French authorities..." Now put the dunces hat on and go and stand in the corner!

[*Trowbridge H. Ford*]

Merah's family doesn't believe a word of what the French securocrats as claiming, his half brother claiming that he was a low level information for a French security service, and was killed to suit its interests. His father is suing the French government over his apparent murder - what it hoped to avoid by having no trial over his alleged crimes.

Here is more about his apparent innocence:

WAS MERAH THE GUNMAN? Mohamed Merah’s family denies he was Toulouse, France gunman

by Antoine Lerougetel

Global Research, March 31, 2012
World Socialist Web Site

The family of Mohamed Merah, whom French police accused of carrying out a wave of deadly shootings in Toulouse and Montauban between March 11 and 19, has emphatically denied that he was a terrorist or carried out the killings. Merah was killed by an elite police unit after a 32-hour siege of his flat last Thursday.

His half-brother Rachid Merah, who lives in Algeria, told FranceInfo television: “I have no idea of what the media and the politicians are talking about. They say that Mohammed has been in Afghanistan and Pakistan and that he was in contact with Al Qaeda. But I categorically deny it. And I doubt whether he has had any links with Al Qaeda or the Taliban or any terrorist organisation in the world. And proof of that is that France killed him before he could speak in court, when they could have caught him alive.”

Rachid Merah’s comments come after similar questions were raised by police experts, such as Claude Prouteau of the Intervention Group of the National Gendarmerie (GIGN), who noted that the special police unit that killed Merah could easily have captured him alive. Instead, the police stormed Merah’s flat and killed him in a hail of nearly 300 bullets. During the siege, Interior Minister Claude Guéant nonetheless had asserted that everything would be done to capture Merah alive, so he could stand trial.

Commenting on the weapons and videos of the shooting that police reportedly found in Merah’s flat, Rachid Merah referred to well-publicized reports that Merah was functioning as an informer for French intelligence: “But as for the weapons we can suppose that he was manipulated by the French secret services, because he was young and easily influenced. They could well have bought him. They used him then they killed him. All scenarios are possible. Who can prove that Mohamed Merah filmed the videos [of the shootings] himself? It could well be someone else.”

Rachid Merah added: “You reap what you sow. They kill our children in Palestine, in Afghanistan, in Iraq, they should recognise their responsibility. The minister of the interior has said that Mohamed was a monster...but I reply that they have created this monster which killed children.”

Rachid Merah’s comments came after similar statements by Mohamed Merah’s father, Mohamed Benalal Merah. He said: “They should have arrested him and investigated the case with him. Perhaps it wasn't he who killed them. By killing my son, the French security services have lost proof, and I have lost my son.”

These statements come as the state’s official version of events—that Merah was undetectable because he was a “self-radicalizing lone wolf” who behaved normally until he assassinated seven people—is being exposed as a fabrication. Instead, he was operating in close contact with French intelligence agencies and in direct collaboration with one and possibly several as-yet unidentified accomplices.

The main evidence used to incriminate Merah were the weapons found in his apartment, and the police’s claims that he confessed to the crime in negotiations and phone calls with them. This evidence has not been released to the public, however, and there is still room for doubt as to whether Merah in fact was the killer. An eyewitness of the Montauban shooting reported that the killer was stout and had a scarred, tattooed cheek—unlike the slim, smooth-faced Mohamed Merah.

Another element of the case is the possible participation of a “third man,” who has remained unidentified until now. Merah’s brother Abdelkader, who was charged with helping him, told police that when he helped his brother steal the Yamaha T-Max scooter used in the killings, there was another person in the car, whose identity has not been revealed. There was also reportedly another person living in the flat where Mohamed Merah was killed.

The head of the French internal intelligence service (DCRI), Bernard Squarcini, was obliged to deny persistent reports in the French and Italian press that Merah was an informer for one of his own agents in Toulouse, and that this was why he could avoid detection and arrest until shortly before police killed him on March 22.

Squarcini’s denial is undermined by the fact that the day after Merah was shot, the police chief told Le Monde that the alleged killer had asked, during the siege, to speak to a Toulouse-based officer in his agency. This agent, understood to be a young woman of North African origin, had debriefed Merah on his return from a two-month visit to Pakistan in November 2011.

Former security chief Yves Bonnet told the Toulouse paper La Dépêche du Midi that it was “striking” that Merah seemed to have a DCRI handler: “Having a handler—that is not an innocent thing.”

Even if Merah had low-level “informant” status, this could explain why police and security services failed to detect him—i.e., because they deliberately ceased to look.

Le Canard Enchaîné newspaper reported on Thusday that Merah and his family had been bugged by the DCRI from March to November last year. The bugging ended abruptly, Le Canard said, around the time of his meeting with the DCRI agent in November. However, surveillance units later said that the bugging began in November and was dropped in February because it revealed nothing important. This was only a few weeks before the killer began his rampage.

Under these highly suspicious circumstances, only a few weeks before the French presidential elections, incumbent President Nicolas Sarkozy seized upon the killings to whip up law-and-order hysteria and seize the media spotlight. He announced new laws penalising visits to Internet sites “spreading terrorist ideology,” and police carried out a crackdown on an alleged Islamist network in France yesterday, arresting 19 people.

The tacit support given to these police-state measures by PS presidential candidate François Hollande and Hollande’s pseudo-left allies has allowed Sarkozy to seize the initiative in the election race, effectively mounting a political coup. Poll results now put him in front at 30 percent of voting intentions to Hollande’s 28 percent in the first round of voting on April 22.