Scores murdered in Bastille Day attack in Nice

| July 15, 2016

According to NBC News, more than 80 people in Nice, France were killed when a truck plowed into a crowd assembled for a fireworks display for Bastille Day celebrations.

The driver was fatally shot by police, Hollande said. It is unknown if there were accomplices, Hollande said. French media, citing a police source, reported that ID papers belonging to a French-Tunisian were found in the truck. A source told NBC News the driver is believed to have been a French national of Tunisian descent

Vocative says that ISIS was dancing on the graves of the murdered;

“Oh France, you and the all Europe will never be secure until we will live secure on every inch in the land of the Caliphate,” wrote one ISIS supporter whose Twitter account has since been suspended. “This is the beginning of the attack to take the holy revenge for the killing of Abu Omar Shishani, may Allah accept him,” a jihadi posted on the ISIS al-Minbar forum shortly after the attack.

According to Fox News, an American, Sean Copeland, 51, and his 11-year-old son Brodie, from Austin, Texas were among the dead.

The US President recognized that it was indeed a terrorist attack, you know, because it wasn’t in the US;

On behalf of the American people, I condemn in the strongest terms what appears to be a horrific terrorist attack in Nice, France, which killed and wounded dozens of innocent civilians. Our thoughts and prayers are with the families and other loved ones of those killed, and we wish a full recovery for the many wounded. I have directed my team to be in touch with French officials, and we have offered any assistance that they may need to investigate this attack and bring those responsible to justice. We stand in solidarity and partnership with France, our oldest ally, as they respond to and recover from this attack.

On this Bastille Day, we are reminded of the extraordinary resilience and democratic values that have made France an inspiration to the entire world, and we know that the character of the French Republic will endure long after this devastating and tragic loss of life.

Category: Terror War

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Combat Historian

Religion of Peace, Monster Truck Edition; ain’t allah grand…///???

Sapper3307

The media is avoiding any mention of the goat lovers cult by name.

2/17 Air Cav

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Yef

Nah, that was an Amish attack.

A Proud Infidel®™

HOW DO WE KNOW he wasn’t a radical Mormon or Mennonite?

Graybeard

Couldn’t be Amish – it wasn’t a horse-drawn vehicle.

SFC D

Radical Mormons travel in pairs, on bicycles, and try to convert you first.

B Woodman

Convert by persuasion, not coercion. Just FYI.

19D2OR4-Smitty

I’m surprised he hasn’t called for more common sense truck laws and better truck control. I mean, clearly it was the attackers easy access to trucks that cause the attack. Not the attacker himself.

19D2OR4-Smitty

Caused*

Ex-PH2

Well, you know, Smitty, with the coming wave of robotrucks, anything IS possible.

GDContractor

By “he” you mean Cling, right? Did the driver receive truck driving training in the military?

GDContractor

Cling=Clong
Thanks autocorrect.
SWEADEN!! SWEADEN!!

A Proud Infidel®™

Autocorrect can be a real Mother Forklift sometimes!

HMCS(FMF) ret.

Cling = Clong = sChLong

the one and the same

Graybeard

cling=clong=dong?

Ex-PH2

cling = clongodongo

FatCircles0311

Incoming ban on assault trucks…

We just can’t do nothing!

nousdefions

No one needs a truck with more than 10 wheels.

No one needs a truck with a fully automatic transmission.

No one nees a truck with a tailgate thingy that goes up in the back.

Ban Assault trucks now!

nousdefions

No one needs…

Alex, can I buy an edit button?

Azygos

One local headline this morning “TRUCK KILLS 84 AND INJURES SCORES IN FRANCE”

Inanimate objects are not sapient. Terrorists kill people not trucks and not guns. Is there not one journalist who has taken an English class?

Ex-PH2

Pointing out the obvious, are you?

For shame! You’re embarrassing all those people who think just the opposite of your radical ideas.

Graybeard

I think it’s an “English for journo’s” class.

They use “illustrated novels” (what I used to purchase as “comic books” so that the numbskulls students have a chance to pass.

F@ckYoCouch

He painted the truck black, right? Put a fore-grip on it? Must have been an “assault” truck.

Need to ban anything larger than a Fiat 500. No civilian should own or have access to a truck. It’s is for the good of the people. Think of the children.

Ex-PH2

Worse: it was an 18-wheeler with an air dam on the roof of the cab. No resistance allowed. A mere 25 tonnes (metric = 2.2lbs/kilo).

When I see that video I keep wondering why people were running in the same direction as the trucker drove, instead of dodging into alleys and side streets, when there were plenty of them, as the pocketpet videos show. I guess it’s the herd instinct thing?

F@ckYoCouch

Haven’t seen the video, yet. Will look it up.

Never understood the reactions in linear chases like that. Their reaction sounds like it is right out of a movie. Humans forget that the turn radius of any vehicle is geometrically more than that of a bipedal mammal on foot. They must get tunnel vision in the heat of the moment.

Graybeard

Same phenomenon when folks from a car stalled on the train tracks run down the track away from the train.
The primitive part of the brain says “get away from the threat” and the thinking part doesn’t get involved, so that the best way to get away from the threat is actually to run in a diagonal toward the direction from which the train, or truck, is coming.
Like the squirrel on the road whose avoidance instinct is developed to avoiding hawks, not cars.

F@ckyocouch

Makes sense, especially the conditioning example at the end. Those of us that have spent quality time on the farm with cattle know that running in straight lines does no good when trying to escape a charging cow.

The Other Whitey
sj

He was a radicalized Lutheran named Mohamed. He was just looking for a job. King 4 Putt is still trying to unravel his motives. Its BS that he had a GUN because they are illegal in France.

A Proud Infidel®™

Maybe we need to BAN HIGH CAPACITY TRUCKS!?

Ex-PH2

It must have hurt him a lot to use that word. The cringing! It wrinkled his shirt.

FatCircles0311

They really should ban grenades in France. I mean common sense grenade control would have stopped this. Also programs like job training and midnight basketball.

LRRP2

‘Bout time to start playing Cowboys and isis .

Graybeard

But the Cowboys have been having problems getting to the goal line… We’d need to resurrect Tom Landry.
Maybe Patriots and isis?

19D2OR4-Smitty

Bears and ISIS

Graybeard

That might work.
Although I suspect most Texas HS football teams could win that contest, too. Except then Texans wouldn’t have anything to watch on Friday nights – and that might make for some very irritated Texans.

John S.

In Chicago, the Bears don’t beat anybody.

Ex-PH2

Washington Redskins and ISIS.

A Proud Infidel®™

One day three men were awaiting their flight at a regional airport in Montana. The American Indian man looked out the window and said “Once we were many and powerful, now we are fewer.” to which the Muslim sneered “Once we were few, but now we are many.” after which the Cowboy lifted the brim of his Stetson from over his eyes and calmly said “Back then, the game was Cowboys and Indians, today it’s Cowboys and Muslims and the game ain’t even started yet.”

Graybeard

this

GDContractor

France has been under a state of emergency for how long? All those Police standing around on the street corners in their tacticool and they only protected the 81st and above. Seems pretty obvious to me who is going to protect my family.

HMCS(FMF) ret.

France needs another Joan of Arc to go all medieval on ISIS ass… until then, they will just roll over and “not want to offend anyone”.

Graybeard

Remember, Joan of Arc was opposed by the politicians of her day, as well. It was the French people who followed her.

That is, she was an ignorant member of the unwashed masses who didn’t know that she ought to listen to her intellectual superiors.

F@ckyocouch

Another 4-8 years of limp dicks in the White House, taking sh!+ from the likes of Kim Jong Un, Assad, Putin, and the Ayatollah, self deceiving that it is “progress” and we will be in the same boat as the french. And the primary head of State during these bleak, impotent years? That’s right. Liberal Ham-Beast, Hitlery. We’re lined up to look even weaker.

Hack Stone

President Obama said that America will offer any assistance that they may need. The gloves are off, and Obama means business. ISIS/ISIL better be prepared for the consequences. That’s right, he is dispatching James Taylor to France, and he will be playing the B-Sides of his singles. They brought this on themselves.

Hondo

Think he’ll play them “Steamroller”? (smile)

nousdefions

You forgot the dreaded “sternly worded” letter.

Graybeard

That presupposes those goat-lovers can read…

charles w

Hashtags people!!! We need more hashtags.

HMCS(FMF) ret.

Don’t want to interrupt da Preezy on the golf course or while he’s shooting hoops…

Veritas Omnia Vincit

They’re looking to ignite a holy war…I suspect they will get their wish at some point in the near future.

If so I hope this time we at least fight it like we intend to win it and force an unconditional surrender of most of the middle east in the process.

Hondo

Possible. France does have a history along those lines – just ask the descendants of the Hugenots.

But you might have to look outside France to find them.

Ex-PH2

They are, and they should be careful what they wish for.

Graybeard

From what I’ve read – they want to get nuked. They think it’ll bring back some unholy character to establish their rule over the world.

What the reality-denying drug-dreamers Elite Class does not understand, for this enemy, their total destruction is a feature not a bug. One we ought to be quite willing to give them.

Ex-PH2

Well, what if a Really Big Rock fell on that big stone box in wherever it is? And smashed a whole bunch of people flat? And it exploded because natural gas had leaked into it over many centuries?

Do you think that would work? Or do they want a Really Big Bomb, like Tsar Bomba?

http://www.tsarbomba.org/

Here’s a video. 50 megatons.

https://youtu.be/RNYe_UaWZ3U

26Limabeans

How much tannerite would one need for the same bang? Think about it, no nasty side effects from radiation. Just a pile of aggregate that could immediately be used to rebuild minus the jihadis.

A Proud Infidel®™

Bring back the Neutron Bomb, the after effects aren’t all that much and afterward we could grind up that damned rock and use it to line a pigpen or three! ALLAH PIGSHIT!!! Pig piss on Mohammed!

Ex-PH2

50 megatons is 50 million TONS, not pounds, of TNT.

SFC D

Napalm. Lots and lots of napalm.

A Proud Infidel®™

I say start off with lots of WP and napalm what’s left.

SFC D

It’d be an awesome pig farm after it cools.

Ex-PH2

The so-called ‘elite class’ needs to be held accountable. Draft them and theirs first. That way, we’ll know they REALLY care.

Silentium Est Aureum

At some point, our leadership will wake up, realize what we’re dealing with, and bomb these 7th Century rejects into dust.

Yeah. I’m not holding my breath either.

2/17 Air Cav

You may or may not have heard or seen the online jihadi magazine Inspire. I hadn’t until today when Newsmax pointed out that the use of a truck to mow down infidels was suggested in a 2010 issue of the mag. So, I checked it out and, sure enough, the article, entitled, The Ultimate Mowing Machine, is on page 53.

“Pick your location and timing carefully. Go for the most crowed [sic] locations. Narrower spots are also better because it gives less chance for the people to run away. […] “The ideal location is a place where there are a maximum number of pedestrians and the least number of vehicles. In fact if you can get through to “pedestrian only” locations that exist in some downtown (city center) areas, that would be fabulous. There are some places that are closed down for vehicles at certain times due to the swarms of people.” […] ”This idea could be implemented in countries like Israel, the U.S., Britain, Canada, Australia, France….” […] “If you have access to #rearms[sic], carry them with you so that you may use them to #nish o”[sic] your work if your vehicle gets grounded during the attack.” […] “Hence, it should be considered a martyrdom operation. It’s a one-way road. You keep on #ghting […] until you achieve martyrdom. You start out your day in this world, and by the end of it, you are with Allah.”

Want to bet that police found a copy of that article in Mohamed Bouhlel’s residence? If you want to read that sick article and look at that sick mag for yourself, here’s the link:

https://azelin.files.wordpress.com/2010/10/inspire-magazine-2.pdf

GDContractor

I like how they used the word “fabulous”. Maybe, this too, was an attack carried out due to their self-loathing homophobia. But I’m no grad student.

Chip

Unleash the French Foreign Legion!

F@ckYoCouch

No sh!+. Scorched earth. Plus, they wacked 2 Texans.

Sparks

“I condemn in the strongest terms what ‘appears’ to be a horrific terrorist attack”. Wow, if Obama keeps up this kind of talk, they’re really gonna know he means business.

2/17 Air Cav

Think maybe he’ll announce another red line?

Tman

Religion of peace, understanding, and tolerance.

QM1

Response of leadership after 9/11:

“We’re coming for you and will not rest until you are wiped out.”

Response of leadership after San Berndino, Chattanooga, Orlando, et.:

“Was it really a terrorist attack?” “You better not speak ill of Islam!”

Lucky

Is it time for some LGOPs action? IMO, its time to let Operators Operate Operationally.

I will just be happy if I get my M240B back

GDContractor

It’s time to begin following the advice of Tom Kratman.

Lucky

I knew Kenny Kratman…. Nah, its ok lol

Kenny kratman

Who the fuck are you that knew me?

Green Thumb

Sad.

My thoughts and condolences to the families of those impacted by the terrible occurrence.

Dustoff

OK France, it’s time for your men to grow a pair! This is what you’re fighting for…BTW, the title of her son is “I’m Fed Up! Enjoy.

Combat Historian

That is my favorite Alizee video; she’s a Corsican fox. If the Frenchies are not willing to fight on behalf of Alizee, they are indeed lost…

B Woodman

Time for French CITIZENS to go all French Revolution and pick up anything available (cobblestones are plentiful) and “storm the Bastille” of enclaved quoranimal muzzie neighborhoods, and drive them into the sea, let the animals swim back home.

Ex-PH2

Someone who analyzes events like this was on the mid-day news, telling the interviewer that within a couple of hours following this horrifying event, she and one of her colleagues found a video online that not only encourages this, but outlined how to do more and where, and included some of the more horrific video footage that ISIS/Daesh is known for using for its shock value. She said it was as if the producer had thrown it together in a matter of minutes.

Ex-PH2

Update: per Reuters article, ISIS has claimed the Nice, France attack for itself. The dead perp had a history of petty criminal behavior.

http://www.reuters.com/article/us-europe-attacks-nice-raid-idUSKCN0ZW0DT