The courage of ISIS

[Gob]

One of the men suspected of killing a priest at a church in northern France was being monitored by police and was wearing a surveillance tag at the time of the attack, officials say.



Prosecutor Francois Molins said Adel Kermiche, 19, was twice arrested last year trying to reach Syria.

Kermiche and a fellow attacker stormed the church in Saint-Etienne-du-Rouvray, a suburb of Rouen, during morning Mass.

They slit the throat of the elderly priest before being killed by police.

One of four people taken hostage - said to be an elderly parishioner - suffered severe knife wounds, Mr Molins said.

Mr Molins said the two attackers had been carrying a "fake explosive device covered in aluminium foil" along with hand-held weapons when they entered the Catholic church.

As they targeted Father Jacques Hamel, in his 80s, some of the congregation were able to escape and alert the police, who sent in a team specialised in dealing with hostage situations.

Three of the hostages were used as human shields to block the police from entering the church, Mr Molins said.

When they were eventually let go, the two attackers followed them out of the church shouting "Allahu Akbar" before being killed, Mr Molins said.

Earlier, the so-called Islamic State (IS) claimed its "soldiers" carried out the attack.

[MajGenl.Meade]

No cowards there, then?

[dales]

EVIL

[kmccune]

Cowards all,so many confuse ire and temper with courage ,if they are so brave why do they have hide behind masks and attack the infirm. Courage is when you know the odds are against you and situation be dammed you go face it and take your ass whipping .

[liberty]

The Vietcong ambushed American troops then ran away. Where they cowards? The North Vietnamese government tortured American POWs to death because they would not admit they were war criminals; were they cowards?

It might help one feel better by calling them cowards, but that doesn’t make it so.

[Bicycle Bill]

The Vietcong ambushed American troops then ran away. Where they cowards? The North Vietnamese government tortured American POWs to death because they would not admit they were war criminals; were they cowards?

It might help one feel better by calling them cowards, but that doesn’t make it so.

The VC using hit-and-run tactics?  Well, it was unorthodox by our standards, and with the rules of engagement so restrictive that they could quickly and easily slip across the Cambodian or Laotian border and be in a "safe zone" where US troops could not enter it's not so much a case of cowardice as it is taking the utmost advantage of the situation.  I suppose the VC could claim we were cowards by taking advantage of technology, raining down death and destruction through Operation Rolling Thunder or by safely orbiting at 3000 feet while pouring lead out of 'Spooky' or 'Puff the Magic Dragon' rather than engaging them one-on-one on the ground too.

As for torturing captured POWs to death — ever hear of Common Article Three of the Geneva Convention?  So yes, that is cowardice at the best, and war crimes at the worst.

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