Terrorists are on the rampage in Paris

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As the saying goes, "The enemy of my enemy is my enemy's enemy; no more, and no less." -- Maxim 29, of "The 70 Maxims of Maximally Effective Mercenaries", by Howard Tayler

Maxim 30 is, "A little trust goes a long way; the less you use, the further you will go."

... words to live by ...

Seems to me that killing up to 100 kids at a rock\metal concert has accomplished nothing politically or religiously.....what did they accomplish?

Seems to me that Islam is the scarf-wearing women and girls all over my city, going to school and work, the Muslim men working to support their families, not people focusing their time and effort to hurt people.

Jesus did not kill anyone, nor did Buddha, nor did Baha'ulla, nor, Ghandi, nor, I believe, did Muhammad.....

If their believers walked in their steps instead of what someone SAYS to do in their name, wouldn't this wretchedness end?

IS wouldn't put much effort into attacking Israel because:

Israel does a good job with its borders and security
Israel isn't attacking them
Israel is actively fighting the enemy of IS (Shiite Muslims), which leads to:
IS hates Shiite Muslims more than the Jewish

IS is mostly ex-Iraqi military leaders (Baathists) and Iraqi Sunnis. Not much love for Shiites there, nor much love for the "crusaders" (the latter put them out of power in Iraq, and also brought the Sunni/Shiite civil war to Iraq in their minds).

The finding of the passports near the bombers' bodies needs a Mythbusters episode: Can a passport survive a vest explosion?

I was told there was a documentary talking about suicide bombers are often are found half body, sometimes the upper part of the body fly up, so if a passport was in his top pocket then it might remain intact.

ID cards are pretty strong and light. I can see them ending up as relatively intact shrapnel (not to mention usually being in a wallet). You'd need a really big boom to make them effectively disappear or a prolonged fire.

You'd carry one in case you need to show ID. Not much point in hiding your ID when you blow yourself up, and you also want it known that your crew did it.

As many of the terrorists had been recently in Belgium prior to returning to France, that might explain why they had had their passports on their persons.

As Dillogic said above. It does seem like they want to be identified, so it carrying ID and placing it in a position where it's less likely to be damaged seems to be part of their procedure.

Something of small mass and high surface area is more likely to be carried by the shock wave than destroyed by it.

CNN seems to be keeping up with the facts, so here's link to their latest (2015/11/16) update of...