A discarded cellphone
which the police found near the Bataclan, contained this text-message:
“on est parti on
commence’’
Loosely translated:
“Let’s roll.”
That might prove, for November/Friday-the-13th, what “The match begins tomorrow” became
(in the public mind) for 9/11.
Not because of that day’s body-count; but because the event may later be seen
as the “tipping-point” -- das Umkippen
-- when even slow learners like Hollande
finally got the message. Epigram/epitaph going forward:
C’est parti -- ça commence.
Loosely: “Now we’re in for it.”
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If so, this may, in some sense, be bigger than 9/11.
For: the
freakishly high death-toll of 9/11
was in part due to an unexpected result of architectural
engineering. Watching the twin
towers just … collapse … vertically …
engendered disbelief. (The bastard
offspring of such disbelief was a conspiracy theory.) Moreover, there has been almost no follow-up on American
soil. And this, because it really
was an extraneous attack of a few intruders; there was no indigenous Muslim
fan-club for those guys, in America, at that point.
Quite different is the scene in France, where a follow-on op
to Nov/Vendredi-13, was not long in coming. Here, a magnificent public
presentation by the Procureur de Paris, François Molins -- Churchillian in its
focus and concision:
Le commando neutralisé à
Saint-Denis était prêt à «passer à l'acte»
And here, an unusually detailed blow-by-blow account of the
Saint-Denis raid, from its leader, Jean-Michel Fauvergue:
Kudos to you, gentlemen.
Eyewitness from the Bataclan:
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