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“…moving towards a European 9/11” – Spectator Blogs

CK MacLeod January 15, 2016

The Chief Rabbi is right. France has become a battleground and the country can expect further casualties in 2016. As an unnamed French senior counter-terrorism official suggested last week ‘Unfortunately, I think 2015 was nothing. We are moving towards a European 9/11: simultaneous attacks on the same day in several countries, several places. A very coordinated thing. We know the terrorists are working on this.’

From: France has become a religious battleground – Spectator Blogs

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