France Hostages

[fender62]

let's hope it ends without loss of life
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5535755/Shooting-hostage-taking-supermarket-south-France.html

[fender62]

sorry some have been murdered already, tragic

[Mamyalynne]

Dreadful, hope no more dies before they contain him.

[gness]

The Mayor says hostages freed and the gunman is alone with a police officer now....hope this is so and hope it ends well for the officer....x

[-Talbot-]

Oops, wrong thread.

[naomi24]

//it emerges he is a known Moroccan radical Islamist//

This makes me sick. Why was he left free to roam?

[anotheoldgit]

/// radicalised Islamist militants ///

Let's save on printers ink and say 'Islamists'

[andy-hughes]

AOG - // // radicalised Islamist militants ///

Let's save on printers ink and say 'Islamists' //

Let's not, because the term 'radicalised' indicates someone whose specific experience is the reason for their behaviour - as in this instance.

[Lie-in King]

Gunman now believed to have been shot & killed -

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-43518769

[Spicerack]

Don't think you understand what an Islamist is, Andy.

[naomi24]

Lie-in King at 14:03, good. One less.

[Mamyalynne]

Ta LIK.

[gness]

Thanks, LiK......isn't it a sad world when we are glad/relieved somebody has been killed......x

[naomi24]

Sadder still with them alive.

[gness]

It is, Naomi...my meaning was that it's a sad world when there are people in it whose death makes me think......good....I'm glad he's gone.x

[Lie-in King]

Agreed, Gness & Naomi - I don't like having to harden my heart, but it's becoming more necessary.

[naomi24]

gness, I know. Awful, just awful. What a world!!

[gness]

"Harden my heart"........just so, LiK.....a person with a hard heart's not someone I ever wanted to be......and with it comes the wariness of others......not nice but as you say.....it's becoming more necessary....x

[anotheoldgit]

andy-hughes

/// Let's not, because the term 'radicalised' indicates someone whose specific experience is the reason for their behaviour - as in this instance. ///

And couldn't that specific reason be because they happen to follow the Islamic religion?

[ToraToraTora]

sad that more innocents die whilst we pussy foot around the greatest evil the world has ever known.