{"id":66495,"date":"2015-11-16T12:01:02","date_gmt":"2015-11-16T12:01:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=66495"},"modified":"2015-11-16T06:25:47","modified_gmt":"2015-11-16T06:25:47","slug":"paris-who-profits","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2015\/11\/paris-who-profits\/","title":{"rendered":"Paris: Who Profits?"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Pepe Escobar<\/p><\/div>\n

14 Nov 2015 – <\/em>There\u2019s no evidence this is a false flag \u2013 at least for now. What this seems to be proving is that Daesh is a certified pro ops with badass connections.<\/p>\n

Scouring a ton of reports, I found a Danish citizen describing one of the attackers to a Paris caf\u00e9; ultra-pro, black-clad head to toe, AK-47, very well trained. These are not your usual al-Zawahiri underwear bombers; these are precision killers. This one left the scene undisturbed, and contrary to French police, may not have been captured. He wore no suicide vest.<\/p>\n

French intel swears they are monitoring at least 200 nationals who came back from \u201cSyraq\u201d. Talk about a lousy job. Paris is hyper-policed. The mind boggles thinking of at least 8 jihadis promenading at will on a Friday night dressed as pro killers.<\/p>\n

For me, this is also personal. Jihad came to my hood in Paris. I left Paris last week on my usual commute back to Asia. I have always mocked Fox News describing my hood as a “no-go” area – obviously for the wrong\/stupid reasons.<\/p>\n

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\nThey picked a small Cambodian restaurant, cheap and cozy, where the habitu\u00e9s are young and relatively hip. This means the quartier may have been carefully researched for months.<\/p>\n

They picked a mix of heavily symbolic venues.<\/p>\n

You have a France-German match witnessed by the President in a stadium where all barriers – ethnic, religious \u2013 dissolve, a true symbol of multiculturalism.<\/p>\n

You have a gig by an American band in a concert hall filled with young people.<\/p>\n

You have your average, cool, neighborhood caf\u00e9s in the 10eme and 11eme, young, hip, secular, bobo Paris hoods.<\/p>\n

This points to a calibrated conceptual spectrum – carefully mapped out by French insiders; perhaps those \u201cSyraq\u201d returnees.<\/p>\n

This also points to a monumental fail by French intel and the Ministry of Interior.<\/p>\n

There are so many accumulated reasons for blowback; overt and covert discrimination against Muslims, leading them to feel like second-hand citizens; France\u2019s coddling of \u201cmoderate rebels\u201d; Sarko The First and General Hollande\u2019s wars on Libya and Mali; the meek bombing raids in Syria; France as NATO enforcers.<\/p>\n

Timing: crucial. Just as the US\/Brits announce they \u201cmay\u201d have evaporated with Jihad John. And a few hours before the Vienna talks are supposed to come up with an official Top Ten terrorist list in Syria (the subject of my current article on Asia Times.)<\/p>\n

Cui bono?<\/p>\n

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Pepe Escobar, from Brazil, is the roving correspondent for Asia Times\/Hong Kong, an analyst for RT and a frequent contributor to websites and radio shows ranging from the US to East Asia. He is the author of <\/em><\/em>Globalistan: How the Globalized World is Dissolving into Liquid War<\/a> (Nimble Books, 2007), <\/em>Red Zone Blues: a snapshot of Baghdad during the surge<\/a> (Nimble Books, 2007), and <\/em>Obama does Globalistan<\/a> (Nimble Books, 2009). His new <\/em>book is Empire of Chaos<\/a>.<\/em> He may be reached at pepeasia@yahoo.com.<\/em><\/em><\/p>\n

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14 Nov 2015 – There\u2019s no evidence this is a false flag \u2013 at least for now. What this seems to be proving is that Daesh is a certified pro ops with badass connections. Scouring a ton of reports, I found a Danish citizen describing one of the attackers to a Paris caf\u00e9; ultra-pro, black-clad head to toe, AK-47, very well trained. These are not your usual al-Zawahiri underwear bombers; these are precision killers. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-66495","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-in-focus"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66495","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=66495"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66495\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=66495"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=66495"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=66495"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}