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The mainstream media for the most part has moved on. But there are a few more gleanings to be had, of perhaps the most interesting comes from the Daily Mirror, which labels al-Hilli an extremist on the grounds that he was against the war in Iraq, disapproved of the behaviour of Israel and had doubts over 9/11 – which makes a great deal of the population “extremist”. But the Mirror has the only mainstream mention I can find of the possibility that Mossad carried out the killings. Given Mr al-Hilli’s profession, the fact he is a Shia, the fact he had visited Iran, and the fact that Israel heas been assassinating scientists connected to Iran’s nuclear programme, this has to be a possibility. There are of course other possibilities, but to ignore that one is ludicrous.

Which leads me to the argument of Daily Mail crime reporter, Stephen Wright, that the French police should concentrate on the idea that this was a killing by a random Alpine madman or racist bigot. Perfectly possible, of course, and the anti-Muslim killings in Marseille might be as much a precedent as Mossad killings of scientists. But why the lone madman idea should be the preferred investigation, Mr Wright does not explain. What I did find interesting from a man who has visited many crime scenes are his repeated insinuations that the French authorities are not really trying very hard to find who the killers were, for example:

the crime scene would have been sealed off for a minimum of seven to ten days, to allow detailed forensic searches for DNA, fibres, tyre marks and shoe prints to take place.
Nearby bushes and vegetation would have been searched for any discarded food and cigarette butts left by the killer, not to mention the murder weapon.
But from what I saw at the end of last week, no such searches had taken place and potentially vital evidence could have been missed. House to house inquiries in the local area had yet to be completed and police had not made specific public appeals for information about the crime. No reward had been put up for information about the shootings.
Behind the scenes, what other short cuts have been taken? Have police seized data identifying all mobile phones being used in the vicinity of the murders that day?

The idea that the French authorities – who are quite as capable as any other of solving cases – are not really trying very hard is an interesting one.

Which leads me to this part of a remarkable article from the Daily Telegraph, which if true points us back towards a hit squad and discounts the ides that there was only one gun:

Claims that only one gun was used to kill everybody is likely to be disproved by full ballistics test results which are out in October.
While the 25 spent bullet cartridges found at the scene are all of the same kind, they could in fact have come from a number of weapons of the same make.
This throws up the possibility of a well-equipped, highly-trained gang circling the car and then opening fire.
Both children were left alive by the killers, who had clinically pumped bullets into everybody else, including five into Mr Mollier.
Zainab was found staggering around outside the car by Brett Martin, a British former RAF serviceman who cycled by moments after the attack, but he saw nobody except the schoolgirl.
Her sister, Zeena, was found unscathed and hiding in the car eight hours later.
Both sisters are now back in Britain, and are believed to have been reunited at a secret location near London.

There are of course a number of hit squad options, both governmental and private, which might well involve iraqi or Iranian interests – on both of which the mainstream media have been very happy to speculate while almost unanimously ignoring Israel.

But what interests me is why the Daily Telegraph choose, in the face of all the evidence, to minimise the horrific nature of the attack by stating that “Both children were left alive by the killers”? Zainab was not left alive by design, she was shot in the chest and her skull was stove in, which presumably was a pretty serious attempt to kill a seven year-old child. The other girl might very well have succeeded in hiding from the killers under her mother’s skirts, as she hid from the first rescuers, and then for eight hours from the police.

The Telegraph article claims to be informed by sources close to the investigation. So they believe it was a group of people, and feel motivated to absolve those people from child-killing. Now what could the Daily Telegraph be thinking?

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  • Ricki Tarr

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  • Ricki Tarr

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    Malian army in the North is “a nightmare for the French”. If they are careful not to subscribe to the judgment of this European diplomat, the military operation “Serval” can hardly deny the negative impact of the debacle of Kidal on their main mission: the hunt for terrorist groups.

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    these past few weeks, the flag of the national movement for the liberation of the Azawad (MNLA), main separatist organization Tuareg, reappeared in the vicinity of Gao and Timbuktu. “The MNLA deploys a strategy of occupation freshwater of a vacant land”, recognizes a Malian responsible. However, the advanced of the MNLA increases just as the risks of direct confrontation between separatist Tuareg and soldiers of Bamako that the terrorist threat. According to corroborating sources, some jihadis active in northern Mali use the flag of the MNLA as except-led. Or that of a sister organization, the High Council for the unity of the Azawad (HCUA), “showcase legal” of a movement fought by the French army, Ansar ed-Dine. On 11 June, the terrorists have committed a suicide bombing at the entrance to the base of the United Nations in Aguelhok, killing four blue helmets Chadians.

    Raids. These events are occurring at a time when Paris welcomes to have door of major blows to the Jehadis, during raids carried out by helicopter in March and April. “Mokhtar Belmokhtar has lost several of his assistants, his organization is very weakened”, considers a military source french. Just as Iyad ag-Ghaly, the ex-leader of Ansar ed-Dine, whose “some lieutenants” have been eliminated or have “defected”. This key personality in the nebula Tuareg still remains not least not found, protected by his perfect knowledge of the field, by the solidarity between Tuareg who transcends the political rivalries and by the possibility of finding refuge on the other side of the border with Algeria.

    As to Al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (Aqmi), the organization has not disappeared, but would mute. “During the operation Serval, most foreign volunteers have been killed or are returned home, entrusted a source close to the folder. On the other hand, the katibas [cells] Tuaregs are always active and mutually even in recruiting youth premises of the fact of the political impasse which prevails in Kidal.”

    “intelligence”. In these conditions, the shadow war risk to take in Northern Mali , or the French forces, approximately 1,600 men currently, apply the American strategy which is to aim the “targets to high value added”. An approach adapted to the constraints of a large field as France. “In aiming the heads, it is also to impress the terrorists, to show them our perfect knowledge of their networks and to create among them a feeling of insecurity permanent.”

    easier to say than to do, the opponent practicing the tactics of avoidance. “But sooner or later, the jihadists need to refuel with food, petrol or in spare parts for their vehicle”, noted a high grade french. Or “one of them is going to visit his wife on his motorcycle”, said another. “The special forces carry out by windows: when they are a little more, it must react quickly, sometimes in a half-hour, and strike.” But many operations were canceled at the last moment, in the absence of absolute certainty about the identity of the target. “If we want to avoid making the round in the sand or in the sky with a drone, it must always be a good intelligence”, stressed an officer.

    These last few months, several local sources, likely related to French services, have been murdered by the jihadists, do we recognize in Paris.

  • Q

    @Ricki Tarr:

    Way back when we were discussing SIGINT facilities in France and the Dordogne, we did not know about the eX-Legionnaire, who would go on to “suicide”.

    We did not know he would leave a letter, so of course we did not think it should be compared forensically to the letter left at the murder of Christian Marechal.

    Now, look at Yvelines. I see things other than just SIGINT. For example:

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  • Tim Veater

    Ricki Tarr
    8 Sep, 2014 – 3:20 pm thanks for that. What people have a job getting their heads around, in fact they refuse to admit it, is that national politics is saturated with practical hypocrisy. There is the policy statement and there is the reality. Take policing, take drugs, take the banks laundering dirty money, take military action, take terrorist outrages, take the country’s economic situation – all duplicitous. Chevaline is a prime example of not being able to believe a word that is said whilst at the same time anyone officially involved maintains the pretence of integrity. Although there are very notable pre-2000 examples, I think 9/11 and the events that followed was a sort of water shed in public deceit. By a long slow process of osmosis i think people are starting to realise which shows itself in the disillusionment with the whole parliamentary thing, now specifically in the Scottish vote. The objective view is that the UK is being dismembered and dis-empowered to a runt – by virtue of the EU, US, Commonwealth, internal break-up -perhaps not even on the Security Council. The beginning and ending of the second Elizabethan Age. Yet still Cameron wants to play on the world stage militarily after decimating the armed forces. No wonder apathy and cynicism abounds.

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