Wolf Blitzer says he has seen a picture of the dead terrorist's gf in a bikini.

[MoonRiver]

Huh?

[Mass]

1. And?

[MoonRiver]

4. Just sounds weird.

[Mass]

6. Why?

[sabrina 1]

10. We have been told they are Islamic Fundies. I don't think that women are allowed to wear bikinis

IF that is what they are.

[NYC_SKP]

15. I, for one, am unconvinced that they are Islamic Fundamentalists.

Messed up individuals, I'll grant them that much, but I'm unconvinced that they are acting on religious grounds.

[randys1]

29. But what else are they, there is no "profit deal" here that we know of, right?

When W and Cheney and Wolfowitz and Perle and company murdered hundreds of thousands of Iraqi's and American soldiers, there was a profit motive behind it.

Political and financial.

What motive is there for these killings if not a radical religion motive?

BTW I hear some rightwing states are outlawing abortion in America, and the rightwingers in the US House are trying to do this also, the result will be murdering Women, and I will consider those politicians just as guilty as those who did the shooting in France.

[oberliner]

48. What would they have had to have said or done to convince you otherwise?

Is there anything?

[NYC_SKP]

49. Had they not done it at all, for one. And if they hadn't shouted "Allah Akbar", etc.

Which is so Hollywood.

These violent acts bring more grief to true Muslims, it makes no sense, it seems more likely the work of a more well organized government cell, to me.

And when I think about who has the most to gain, and realize it ain't Muslims but it might be, oh, the war profiteers and energy and resource interests, I tend to think that the thing really was scripted.

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/jan/08/muslims-fear-backlash-charlie-hebdo-grenades-islamic-france

[oberliner]

50. You think it was unusual that they shouted that phrase?

It's not just Hollywood movies where that happens.

Have you seen the Nick Berg beheading video for example?

Again, I would ask what they could have said or done that would have convinced you that they were in fact Islamic radicals (or at least made you strongly believe that they were).

[JI7]

17. weren't they upset over pictures of muhammed , not bikinis ?

[Mass]

18. Yes, but they are not.

There has been a vast amalgam, left and right, in Europe and in this country, about who these people were. For the most part, they have grown up in the West and are largely European. I happen to know the place her boyfriend grew up. It is a very poor housing project, and it has been going downhills for at least 20 years. During the previous socialist government, it was considered a zone to help in priority (after another housing projects rebellion, I think, but I would guess that, with the economic crisis, the funds have been lost.

Anyway, for many of these people, asserting their origin is a way to protest, not necessarily a religious conviction. So this is not surprising.

This is not to say that nobody believes in a strict Islam, this would be going the other way, but I am not surprised there would be pictures like that.

[JI7]

21. exactly, i think people forget that most of these terrorists are either nationals of western nations

or have a lot of familiarity with them from living there, studying etc.

these aren't some people from places like afghanistan where they have been cut off from the world and only taught religious things.

in fact many of these people are usually ignorant when it comes to discusses of the religion . this is what hostages taken by isis have said.

[sabrina 1]

36. Thanks, but that is why I said it is 'what we have been told'. I remember the riots

in France a few years ago. Seemed to be more about extreme poverty than religion. Anyhow, thank you for the information.

[polly7]

40. The Daily Mail showed a picture of her in one before she converted.

I'm not sure of his point, but he must have missed the date on it.

Hi Sabrina

[MoonRiver]

22. Because she's supposed to be an extremist Muslim woman.

Didn't know they exposed their near naked bodies to cameras.

[Mass]

24. Read my post above.

[branford]

26. I think there's an exception if it helps kill infidels.

However, I'm not an expert in psychopathic terrorist justifications and hypocrisy.

[branford]

2. The news networks have been showing a number of pictures of her,

including a photo of her in a bikini at the beach with the dead terrorist boyfriend.

It's part of a narrative that she's some sort of femme fatale who seduced a two-bit criminal into a major terrorist.

[Fawke Em]

3. Cherchez la femme.

[MoonRiver]

5. Ok. I've been gone all day.

[Oklahoma_Liberal]

7. Is she still at-large?

[Mass]

9. Yes, she left for Syria before the attacks.

[JI7]

8. here, it's already been reported before, with her terrorist boyfriend

for those who think it's all about how women dress

[MoonRiver]

13. Not such a marvelous alQaeda Muslim woman after all

Hypocrisy some?

[JI7]

16. or maybe it's what we assume about terrorists, it's the women who do wear hijabs and other things

who get the worst of the attacks for being muslim, terrorist etc.

but how actual terrorists live is much different. look at the rappers, awlaki and prostitutes and many other cases of what would not be seen as "moral"

[Mass]

20. No hypocrisy. Just vast generalization from the West.\nt

[MoonRiver]

30. That makes NO senses.

Why do they MAKE their women wear hijabs if they are ok with them showing themselves practically naked?

[JI7]

33. who is they ? why did awlaki get prostitutes ?

[MoonRiver]

34. What are you talking about?

Do you think the terrorist's gf is a prostitute? If so, I don't think the creep would allow himself to be seen with her.

[JI7]

35. my point is assumptions about terrorists, people assume they hate us for freedoms

or things like how people dress when it's often not the case.

[MoonRiver]

39. I'm not talking about what I "think."

I'm talking about what they say and do.

[JI7]

42. that's mostly the US which focuses on certain things

[polly7]

41. I believe this was before she was to have converted to Islam. nt.

[glasshouses]

43. Yes

[JI7]

45. didn't she grow up muslim ? she is of algerian descent and changed her last name to sound more

french.

[polly7]

46. Not according to what I read, she converted not long ago. I'll try to find it. nt.

Wearing a skimpy bikini with her arms wrapped around her lover's waist, this is Boumeddiene before she turned into a jihadi killer's accomplice and became France's most wanted woman.

Photographs of the 'wife' of the Kosher supermarket hostage killer reveal how she was radicalised by the man she would go on to marry.

The couple 'married' in a religious ceremony after Boumedienne, who was never seen without her veil, waited four years for him to come out of jail following his conviction for armed robbery.

She is from an Algerian background and altered her surname to ‘make it sound more French', according to an investigating source.

She told police who interviewed her as part of their inquiries into Coulibaly’s murky dealings with Islamic extremists that she had walked away from a low-paid job as a cashier in the Juvisy suburb of Paris in 2009 and taken the veil. She ‘devoted herself’ to Coulibaly.

Interrogated by police in 2010, Boumeddiene said she was inspired by her husband and the radicals she lived with to ‘read a lot of books on religion and because of this, I came to ask questions on religion’.

‘When I saw the massacre of the innocents in Palestine, in Iraq, in Chetchna, in Afghanistan or anywhere the Americans sent their bombers, all that… well, who are the terrorists?'

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2903870/The-hostage-terrorists-didn-t-know-Print-worker-hid-box-texted-police-Charlie-Hebdo-gunmen-held-boss-captive-final-showdown.html

No idea if the Daily Mail is an accepted site here or not, but make of this what you will ....... I took it to mean she had not practiced Islam prior to being introduced to it by her boyfriend. (bolded by me).

[NYC_SKP]

11. What, this girlfriend, Hayat Boumeddiene?

I'm not innocent, may as well post it.





Wolf, what a nut.

[NuclearDem]

12. CNN, never change.

[CJCRANE]

14. Reminds me of the "White Widow"

who escaped after the Nairobi mall massacre.

There seem to be common narrative elements in these attacks.

[Dont call me Shirley]

19. WTF! Blitzer is a freak.

[VanillaRhapsody]

23. Wolff just likes thinking about all those "Jezebels" that "led him astray" with their "honey pot"

tricks and chicanery...its the "women that have all the power" these guys think because they get rejected so much....it couldn't possibly be that the are just terrible in bed!! Why it CAN'T be that...its always those damn women and their bikinis!

[AngryAmish]

25. as they say, Wolf, pics or it does not count.

[dissentient]

27. Put up or shut up, Wolff

[notadmblnd]

31. Well you see.. he had this dream early this morning

His testosterone level was running high. You know how it is? As soon as he woke up and went pee, he was over it.

[madinmaryland]

32. I imagine that situation got very sticky while he was down in his mother's basement.

[olddots]

37. I have pics of Wolf in a Ester Williams one piece .

Send a self adressed envelope to .................

[NuclearDem]

38. Hellfire missile coming your way.

[riderinthestorm]

44. This was before she converted nt

[Blue Owl]

47. God knows what goes on in the situation room after hours

[Guy Whitey Corngood]

51. I'm guessing Blitzer gets to address the situation in his pants.

[bullwinkle428]

52. OWED : One new monitor.