Opus 2016-195: Headlines: Making a List and Checking It Twice

Two ISIS thugs showed their courage and valor by murdering a 84 year old priest and seriously wounding a nun.  Remember that the goal of terrorists is terror not bravery.  You don’t create terror by attacking dug-in special forces who are looking your way and are locked and loaded.  You get it by making the defenseless feel defenseless.  The attack took place during mass and if church attendance is like other places in France the priest and nuns may have been the only people in the church at the time.  Fox News has the story.

What is amazing to me is that these killers were not unknowns.  Check this out from the article,

“One of Tuesday's attackers was on the radar of French police and had traveled to Turkey, said Mohammed Karabila, president of the Regional Council of the Muslim Faith for Haute-Normandie.

"The person that did this odious act is known, and he has been followed by the police for at least a year and a half," he told the AP.”

So we have someone who is on the list.  The police are following him.  They have been doing so for a year and a half.  He is still able to murder and rampage.  Sure they killed him afterward but that isn’t much comfort for the dead priest.  Another case of the police being minutes away when seconds count.

This is harder to believe than fiction.  Coming to a community near you.

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