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Paris Shootings and Explosions Kill Over 100, Police Say

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623 points franzb | 1 comments | 14 Nov 15 00:25 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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rezashirazian ◴[14 Nov 15 01:12 UTC] No.10563796[source]▶
This is scary. This was a well coordinated attack that usually create a lot of chatter before hand. Unlike lone wolf attacks these are somewhat easier to detect.

The French intelligence and counter terrorism units are either not doing their best or these terrorist are getting much better at covering their tracks.

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ThomPete ◴[14 Nov 15 01:17 UTC] No.10563827[source]▶
They knew something was up they just didn't know what.

http://sofrep.com/44480/french-and-german-police-knew-paris-...

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whoopdedo ◴[14 Nov 15 01:38 UTC] No.10563924[source]▶
The weakness of security states is that to "win" the police need a 100% capture rate. The terrorists only have to be successful once.
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1. jacquesm ◴[14 Nov 15 02:10 UTC] No.10564046{3}[source]▶
No, it's much simpler: in an open society it is virtually impossible to defend against terrorism. In other words, you can't stop these things, even if you really want to once they are in the planning stage. The chances of foiling the attack or the attack being successful are about even. So the only way to get rid of these attacks is to either go for some kind of root-cause and to fix the problem before it can gain a foothold or to radically chance society.

I'd hope for the former but I fear it will be the latter.