{"id":4446,"date":"2015-01-12T20:19:14","date_gmt":"2015-01-13T01:19:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=4446"},"modified":"2015-01-12T20:19:14","modified_gmt":"2015-01-13T01:19:14","slug":"nine-questions-about-the-paris-attacks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=4446","title":{"rendered":"Nine Questions About the Paris Attacks"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3 class=\"entry-title\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonsblog.com\/2015\/01\/nine-questions-paris-attacks.html\" target=\"_blank\">Nine Questions About the Paris Attacks<\/a><\/h3>\n<p>Mainstream media are busily promoting a familiar narrative for last week\u2019s terrorist attacks in Paris. As usual this narrative demonizes Islam, calls for a reduction in civil rights, and bolsters existing military aggressions. However, a growing number of serious questions have arisen about the attacks. Until such questions are answered, citizens must consider that these events might be another pretext for an ongoing political agenda.<\/p>\n<p>The Paris attacks are reported to have occurred in two parts. The first was the January 7<sup>th<\/sup>\u00a0shooting of twelve people in and around the offices of\u00a0<em>Charlie Hebdo<\/em>, a tabloid that often published offensive cartoons including some about the Prophet Mohammad. The second attack occurred the next day and was said to be the work of Amedy Coulibaly, a 32-year old Senegalese Frenchman who began shooting police officers at the scene of an accident and then took hostages in a Kosher grocery.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Some parts of the story have already proven to be inaccurate. For example, FOX News and NBC falsely reported that two of the\u00a0<a title=\"suspects were in custody\" href=\"http:\/\/www.thewrap.com\/nbc-nightly-news-to-issue-correction-over-false-paris-manhunt-report\/\" target=\"_blank\">suspects were in custody<\/a>, based on information from \u201ctwo consistently reliable U.S. counterterrorism officials.\u201d One 18-year old widely reported to be a suspect turned himself in (145 miles away) and was\u00a0<a title=\"released 50 hours later\" href=\"http:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/news\/amy-davidson\/looking-mourad-hamyd\" target=\"_blank\">released 50 hours later<\/a>\u00a0due to insurmountable contradictions.<\/p>\n<p>Questions that remain unanswered include the following.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;click on the above link to read the rest of the article&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nine Questions About the Paris Attacks Mainstream media are busily promoting a familiar narrative for last week\u2019s terrorist attacks in Paris. As usual this narrative demonizes Islam, calls for a reduction in civil rights, and bolsters existing military aggressions. However, a growing number of serious questions have arisen about the attacks. Until such questions are [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,6],"tags":[2610,2621,296,496,2510,2620,793],"class_list":["post-4446","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geopolitics","category-liberty","tag-charlie-hebdo","tag-counterterrorism","tag-false-flag","tag-mainstream-media","tag-paris","tag-political-agenda","tag-terrorism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4446","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4446"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4446\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4447,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4446\/revisions\/4447"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4446"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4446"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4446"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}