My hunch on the Paris attacks.

[RandySF]

I'm probably wrong as I am with most things, but I cannot help but think this attack was homegrown with in local extremist community within Paris and not some broader conspiracy. I don't have any connections to Washington or Paris so no one is going to (and probably shouldn't) listen listen to little ol' me, but that's my gut feeling.

[CJCRANE]

1. It's already come out that one of the attackers was a Syrian migrant

who passed through Greece.

[smirkymonkey]

12. So wait, were these attacker the "desperate migrants" coming to Europe

for asylum? If so, that does't really look good for Merkel and the others, does it?

[flamingdem]

2. So far a Syrian passport and Egyptian passport were found near the attackers

bodies. One has been identified as a known radical from the Parisian suburbs. The Syrian passport belonged to someone who came through the island of Lesbos in Greece as a refugee.

[malaise]

4. And of course everything was blown to smithereens

except the passport - same thing happened during 9/11 - how neat.

[TheUnspeakable]

5. My thought exactly

Thank you Malaise

[KittyWampus]

8. where did you see 'everything was blown to smithereens'?

Bombs may blow things up, but not necessarily into "smithereens".

[bettyellen]

9. Paper rained down all over lower Manhattan during the 9/11 explosions, it happens.

Unless it is hit with flame, it's going to fly around. It sounds like in this case they have 3-4 of 8. They were useful idiots, sadly there seems to be an endless supply of young angry people who are seduced by the chance to rape infidels, blow up shit and kill others.

[TeeYiYi]

10. You're doubting...

...that those 9/11 passports gently floated from a fiery sky inferno to the molten asbestos rubble below...unscathed?

So cynical!11!!1

TYY

[TBF]

11. Right? I saw that bit about the passport

and immediately thought "oh crap - Cheney is up to it again"

[SoCalNative]

3. Per the BBC

Attackers 'self-contained cell back from Syria'

http://www.bbc.com/news/live/world-europe-34815972

[Shandris]

6. It's the grenades that make one wonder most.

Grenades stolen from France mil base just a couple months ago. Also an IDF guy arrested for selling some from Israel a month previous. Either one could be a potential source.

http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/196874 (Not sure about this source, its from a google search)
http://www.cbsnews.com/news/explosives-grenades-and-detonators-stolen-from-military-site-in-france/

Can a local extremist group nail 200 timers and detonators from a military base WITHOUT help? In the A Team they can, and I'm sure some good ex-mil could as well. Others? I won't discount the possibility outright, but they would be either very lucky or very well-trained.

[HuckleB]

7. Paris Was The Third Attack By ISIS In 24 Hours. It's Not Just Local.

http://i100.independent.co.uk/article/beirut-baghdad-paris-how-24-hours-of-isis-terror-unfolded-across-the-world--ZkWjxFkREFe