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Charlie Hebdo terrorists were dead moment they holed up as French special forces shoot to kill
















Jan 09, 2015 21:18




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SAS hero Chris Ryan says the ethos and thinking patterns of the National Gendarmerie Intervention Group are similar to that of British Special Forces






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The French special forces are among the best in the world. I would put them on par with the SAS.I worked with the National Gendarmerie Intervention Group in the 80s and early 90s when I was on the counter-terrorism team and they were superb operators.We would go to their training facility in Paris and invite them over to Hereford where we’d discuss house assaults and techniques.Their ethos and thinking patterns were similar to ours.GIGN, as they are known, were formed in response to the 1972 Munich Olympics massacre. They are extremely competent and have carried out a number of operations against terrorists.It was GIGN who stormed an Air France flight that had been hijacked by Algerian militants in December 1994. Thanks to them, most of the hostages survived and all four terrorists were killed.The GIGN would have been well prepared for what unfolded today.  








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 When brothers Cherif and Said Kouachi came out firing there would have been no attempt to shoot to maim – they’d shoot to kill.It would be too dangerous to do otherwise.Arresting them would have meant they ended up in a clean room with three square meals a day. They were dead from the moment they got into that stronghold.The difficulty is, once they killed the brothers, GIGN knew they then had to go into the kosher supermarket in Porte de Vincennes. 








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 It is always a possibility that hostages will die and, sadly, lives were lost.I suspect two were killed as a last stand by Amedy Coulibaly. The terrorist knew where he was going and took some people with him.Heavily armed, it would have taken him no more than a couple of seconds to murder the hostages.And we know he was not afraid to kill after shooting police officer Clarissa Jean-Philippe the day before. 






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