The French authorities should consider the possbility of a National Front role in these attacks.

[Ken Burch]

France has elections in about a month. It will do the National Front(FN) enormous political good that these attacks have occurred

And the FN has roots in the OAS (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Organisation_de_l%27arm%C3%A9e_secr%C3%A8te), a terrorist group of former French soldiers who committed numerous bombings in the name of preventing Algeria from gaining its independence from France(FN founder Jean-Marie Le Pen is an unapologetic OAS veteran), as well as ties to extremist right-wing and anti-immigrant parties, some of them violent, throughout Europe.

It would be a simple matter for the FN to arrange attacks like this, and they likely have some supporters who would willingly die(and kill)for their essentially fascist and racist cause. They could even find "pieds-noirs&quot descendats of the 900,000 Franco-Algerians who fled to France after Algeria won its independence) to impersonate Islamic extremists. A significant number of "pieds-noirs" are FN voters.

[Codeine]

1. Jesus fuck do you people ever stop with this bullshit?!

Islamic fundamentalist terrorists committed this atrocity. It wasn't the French right wing, it wasn't the Jooooz, and it wasn't a CIA false flag.

Gawd.

[Ken Burch]

2. I said nothing about "the Joooz"(and you know perfectly well I'm not an antisemite)

But this is a real possibility.

[Codeine]

4. I'm lumping your post in with all the other CT

shit being posted tonight. But yeah, I know you're not an anti-Semite, not even close.

But seriously, you and the others posting this claptrap need to take your paranoia and put it in your sock drawer at least until all the blood has been hosed off the sidewalks of Paris.

It's the decent thing to do.

The French authorities are smart enough to know what's up.

[Ken Burch]

14. I grieve for the victims.

I also want to make sure millions of people who had nothing to do with this once again become victims of misdirected retaliation.
This could be used to lead to another war...even though no war could do anything to stop things like this.

False flags happen.

[Codeine]

16. False flags with suicide bombs?

You're hopelessly wound up in CT paranoia at this point. I can't logic you out of a position you didn't logic your way into.

Head on over to PrisonPlanet; they eat shit like this for dinner.

[melman]

8. No it's really not a real possiblity

Why is it so important to you to find a different answer than the obvious?

[MADem]

27. No, it isn't. Your theory is absurd.

http://www.cbsnews.com/news/france-president-francois-hollande-blames-isis-for-paris-attacks/

[B2G]

3. It's sounding a tich desperate, isn't it?

[LittleBlue]

5. Not persuasive without evidence

I don't understand the need to blame people who had no role in the attack.

[840high]

6. No.

[Captain Stern]

7. Unreal. Let it go. You know damn well who did this, and it wasn't the National Front. nt

[Takket]

9. the french authorities will follow every trail that actual evidence leads them to.

[stevil]

10. How crass

[Crabby Appleton]

11. unrec nt

[BeyondGeography]

12. In addition to your post being batshit crazy

The OAS targeted political and military opponents, not innocent civilians, and more than a few pieds noirs opposed them. France has had many violent chapters, but domestic terrorism hasn't been one of them.

[Codeine]

13. So they planned a false flag using pied-noirs

impersonating Muslims who then blew themselves the fuck up for the sake of verisimilitude?!

Are you listening to yourself? Why are you so desperate to put the blame somewhere other than upon the people who are saying "It's us! We're to blame!"?

[Ken Burch]

15. Why is it so important to you to give creedence to claims of responsibility that may be bogus?

It's not possible for AQ and ISIL to have done this together-those two groups despise each other.

We need to consider all possibilities and avoid any attempts to rush us to war.

Once we are in another war, all hopes for anything positive for the world will die.

[Codeine]

17. I don't believe I said anything about AQ or ISIL.

Islamists did this. I know DU loves to make excuses for them but I'm not playing that game. Sometimes things really are just as obvious as they seem.

You're asking us to believe a group of National Front thugs were sufficiently dedicated to this false flag operation that they were willing to strap on suicide belts and die for the cause?

Come on, Ken. That's loopy.

[Ken Burch]

19. Nobody here makes excuses for Islamists...some of us just remember what happens

when a "rush to war" gets started. It never takes us anywhere good to just jump to the conclusions Western militarists want us to jump to. All possibilities need to be investigated.

ISIL is horrible, but there's nothing that can be done about them. We don't even know where for sure to bomb.

[bettyellen]

18. Nope, this is seriously crazy talk, Ken. Sorry.

[Recursion]

20. OFFS can you get over yourself for like five minutes? (nt)

[Renew Deal]

29. Nope

[Lizzie Poppet]

21. Creative Speculation is thataway...

[Blue_In_AK]

22. I don't think we should jump to any conclusions

one way or the other so early in the investigation. While it's probably true that these suicide bombers and terrorists were indeed Islamic extremists, it's not outside the realm of possibility that a terrorist group could have been infiltrated by right-wing extremists encouraging such an act. The French right wing, Marine LePen, et al., are the ones most likely to benefit in the long run from this attack. Who loses? France's Muslim community, Syrian refugees and so on.

As we look back on our own 9/11, the details of what really happened are still difficult to determine. MIHOP or LIHOP. See, e.g., http://www.democraticunderground.com/10027339281. And who benefited?

[WinkyDink]

23. Maybe it was CNN, so they'd have a big news story.

[malaise]

24. I'm sure they're examining all possibilities

Rec

[Quantess]

25. A bit tasteless, don't you think?

[MADem]

26. While they will benefit from this, I strongly--and I can't emphasize that word sufficiently--doubt

that they played ANY role in the planning or execution of this tragic course of events.

This was all ISIL. Any other theory is Reynold's Wrap.

[Renew Deal]

28. Are we going to need a 9/11 forum for the Paris attacks?

So people can say all the insane things they want?

[CBGLuthier]

30. Some people should resist the urge to reveal their stupid conspiracy bullshit while the bodies are

still warm or in other words WHAT THE FUCK is wrong with you?

[Scootaloo]

31. National Front doesn't need to do something like this

They can just exploit it. And they certainly will. Probably successfully.

[ucrdem]

32. Maybe but Sarkozy is getting the press

as usual:

25m ago - 10:42

Nicolas Sarkozy, the former French president, has been speaking to the media.

"We need to understand how such attacks are possible and grasp the consequences.

"Our foreign policy must reflect the fact that we are at war. Our internal security policy as well. We need be able to adapt to ensure the security of France."

Sarkozy said his party would support the “drastic strengthening of security measures to protect the lives of our compatriots.”

"Our nation must be united. Our history is full of hardship, we always knew how to overcome it, we will overcome this one with composure, determination and strength."

http://www.theguardian.com/world/live/2015/nov/14/paris-terror-attacks-attackers-dead-mass-killing-live-updates

[riderinthestorm]

33. ISIS just claimed responsibility nt

[rjsquirrel]

34. W T F

Dumbest post of the evening.

[Donald Ian Rankin]

35. Shame on you. N.T.

[madaboutharry]

36. No they should not consider the FN.

Even suggesting it undermines the credibility of the person saying it. If you want to be taken seriously stop saying stuff like this.

[Yo_Mama]

37. You are deep in denial - There were European wide arrests recently and now arrests in Germany

http://www.faz.net/aktuell/terror-in-paris-is-bekennt-sich-zu-anschlaegen-hollande-spricht-von-kriegsakt-13912350-p2.html
This is obviously in German, but a rough translation of a few paragraphs:

"Days ago Bavarian police arrested a suspected accomplice of the Paris assassins. "We had an arrest as a result of the dragnet controls which there is reason to believe is related to this matter," the Bavarian Prime Minister Horst Seehofer on Saturday before an appearance at Saxony-Neukieritzsch.

"The spokesman of the Bavarian Office of Criminal Investigation said that on Thursday of last week, a 51 year-old from Montenegro was arrested on the autobahn. In his VW-Golf were found eight automatic pistols, two revolvers, and two additional pistols. Bavarian Radio also reported that ammunition and several kilos of TNT were hidden in the vehicle.

"According to investigators' circles, Bavarian Radio reported, the documents (or records) seized contained significant indications that the man was headed to Paris. Immediately after the arrest the Office of Criminal Investigation contacted their French counterparts and informed them of the details. The spokesman of the Office of Criminal Investigation warned that nonetheless, a connection with the French attacks is speculative."