KZNSeagull
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Speculation on Sky that the two operations should have been simultaneous, but the supermarket one was delayed because other news crews were filming too close to the supermarket and had to be moved first.
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Beach Hut
Brighton Bhuna Boy
Apparently they cut off phones as the two hostage sites were talking to each other hence trying to storm both buildings at the same time.
Terrible few days for the French, let's hope they can get over this atrocities
Terrible few days for the French, let's hope they can get over this atrocities
Publius Ovidius
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There was a report in Iraq that the Americans, when capturing and killing insurgents used to smear them in pigs fat, and let it get out. This was seen as the ultimate blasphemy but the Americans thought it actually stopped quite a few attacks at the time.
They still haven't found the woman terrorist!
They still haven't found the woman terrorist!
Beach Hut
Brighton Bhuna Boy
This woman seems a bit of a mystery but still at large
KZNSeagull
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French media saying that there were two gunmen in the supermarket, the second an unknown male who has escaped!
KZNSeagull
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I would not be surprised if the gunmen in the printworks were watching the special forces driving into the industrial estate on the tv and then decided to try to make a break for it as a result. Whilst watching these things evolving live is interesting, live tv coverage at these events cannot be helpful to those trying to resolve the situation.
Publius Ovidius
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That was reported as the woman who has got away.
KZNSeagull
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Sky are now saying that according to French media sources, the second gunman was a man and they have no idea where the woman is, or even if she was there at all.
Don't know if any other NSC's have done this at all over the last 2 days, but flicking between Sky News and and BBC News, Sky News in the main seems streets ahead.
BBC are often slow on new key news, have inferior footage, and have a series of their high-brow 'correspondents' or French policians brought out for pompous discussions.
In contrast, SkyNews appear very quick on the feet to new developments, have interesting live footage and give viewers new facts very promptly.
Just my observations.
BBC are often slow on new key news, have inferior footage, and have a series of their high-brow 'correspondents' or French policians brought out for pompous discussions.
In contrast, SkyNews appear very quick on the feet to new developments, have interesting live footage and give viewers new facts very promptly.
Just my observations.
Mackenzie
Old Brightonian
It was the same story when that plane got into trouble a couple of weeks ago.
BobbySmith
New member
The BBC are a bit slower as they try and deal with facts before they transmit, it is well know within the Media circles. Sky shoot from the hip and sometimes get it completely wrong, BBC just look slow.
KZNSeagull
Well-known member
Sky often get things wrong though. They want to be first to announce something but sometimes I get the impression that they do not check properly first beforehand. They are good at "ambulance chasing", but overdo it as a result sometimes. I remember some incident quite recently where they were banging on about something serious may have happened and they went into "no advert, blanket coverage mode" and it turned out to be nothing at all.
daveinprague
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Watched it through the week on France24. Seemed quite comprehensive.
Reports now of a man holding hostages in a jewellers in Montpellier.
Uncle C
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They said all the hostages in Paris were out safely!
inland seagull
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http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-30744693
Good to see the authorities in Saudi Arabia are setting a good example to the extremists!
Good to see the authorities in Saudi Arabia are setting a good example to the extremists!
If they were bothered, they'd have simply cut off the power to the building, surely.
London Irish
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Confirmed that neither lot tried a Butch and Sundance moment - both were planned raids by French police, obviously with mixed success
Seagull over Canaryland
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Quite. It's also an option to shut down local mobile phone networks and impose intense electronic countermeasures on the immediate area in order to suppress communications equipment such as mobile phones a) to disrupt signals to explosive devices and b) to prevent communication with accomplices who might be co-ordinating tactics and remotely feeding back information about the police siege.
Conversely as in this case it may have been considered a higher priority to allow mobile phone calls, for example to eavesdrop and potentially trace unknown accomplices. So not always a straightforward decision.
Holed up in a printworks and surrounded by police, killers Said and Cherif Kouachi were unaware that commandos were being tipped off about their every move.
For, hidden in a cardboard box just yards away was 27-year-old Lilian Lepere.
And he was able to alert police about the location of the gunmen and the layout of the building.
For more than six hours the graphic designer passed on crucial information until the siege ended in a bloody shootout as the terrorist brothers, who had vowed to die as martyrs, burst out from their lair all guns blazing and were mown down in a hail of bullets.