Each of the following two videos is significant enough standing alone, but taken together they are of overwhelming geopolitical importance.

The first is a new French-language propaganda video that was released day before yesterday by the Islamic State. In it a mujahid exhorts his brothers in France to murder French infidels with bombs, guns, knives, rocks — whatever comes to hand.

Many thanks to C.B. Sashenka for the translation, and to Vlad Tepes for the subtitling. Warning: This video contains a few brief graphic images.

Update: YouTube took down the original video, so the embed for it has been replaced by one for LiveLeak:

As a matter of coincidence — or was it more than coincidence? — less than two days later, a police station in Tours was subjected to a knife attack by a “lone wolf”.

What would the French phrase be? “Un loup solitaire”, perhaps?

The second video shows a French TV news report describing yesterday’s knife attack, which proved fatal to the attacker, but not to the police.

Many thanks to Oz-Rita for the translation, and to Vlad Tepes for the subtitling:

Below are excerpts from a Telegraph article about the same incident:

French Police Shoot Dead Knifeman Who Was Shouting Islamic Slogans Investigation under way after man attacks officers in police station in central France French police on Saturday shot dead a man who attacked them with a knife in a police station while shouting “Allahu Akbar” (“God is great” in Arabic), a source said. The man injured the face of an officer at the entrance to the police station in Joue-les-Tours near the city of Tours in central France and injured two other before he was shot, the interior ministry said. Anti-terrorist investigators were probing the incident, a judicial source said. The perpetrator was a French citizen born in Burundi in 1994 and known to police for common crimes, a source close to the case told AFP, adding that the attacker “shouted ‘Allahu Akbar’ from the moment he entered until his last breath.” According to a statement by the interior ministry, the assailant was around 20 years of age, and was “killed (by) police officers present using their issued firearms.”

Transcript of the ISIS video:

0:38 A message to my brothers in France To all my brothers and sisters in France 0:42 (ARABIC expression) In the same way 0:46 that you call on our Sheikh Abu Bakr Baghdadi, 0:48 (ARABIC) 0:52 In the same way he calls on YOU to hit on all the interests All the interests of the Kuffar 0:56 in all the countries of the Kuffar. 0:58 Today I pose to you the question: What are you going to do 1:02 for your brothers and sisters? 1:04 What are you going to do 1:06 for your brothers and sisters? for the oppressed? 1:08 What are you going to do for them? 1:10 What are you going to do for yourselves? 1:14 What are you going to say on the Day of Judgment to Allah? 1:16 What answer are you going to give? 1:18 ARABIC 1:24 Today, it’s the time of the Hijra 1:26 Today, it’s more than a response we have to give 1:28 Today, it’s more than a response we have to give 1:32 If you are incapable, 1:34 If it’s a Kuffar (Wallahee – I swear to god) If it’s a Kuffar who is stopping you… 1:38 …from the Hijra Beat them from where you are! 1:42 Wallahee, beat them from where you are! 1:44 Today you are capable 1:46 Today you are capable of beating them Tell me what are you risking 1:48 If it’s not the Shahada? 1:50 What are you risking, if it’s not (ARABIC)? 1:53 Tell me what you are risking? 1:56 Ask yourselves what you are risking. 1:58 Today you are risking nothing. 2:00 You are risking nothing. 2:02 The Kuffar can’t do anything to you. 2:04 It’s clear, 2:06 that the kuffar no longer wants to listen to Islam. 2:08 Gone is the era 2:10 when the Ummah of Islam was weak. They were weakened. 2:14 This era has revolutionized, ARABIC (praise) 2:18 And (the old era) will never return. 2:20 Praise be to Allah (Hamdallah) on the right side with Allah (al yamin) 2:24 Today we learned the good news. 2:26 La Bay’ah (pledge of allegiance to a leader) of our brothers in Yemen 2:28 of our brothers ARABIC was accepted. 2:32 The Bay’ah of our brothers in Libya 2:34 was accepted. 2:36 All the brothers who were called, all the Mujahadeen brothers 2:38 who were called to join 2:40 to do Bay’ah, called to pledge allegiance 2:44 to Emir Bakr al-Baghdadi 2:46 (other Arabic names) 2:48 Today you will pledge allegiance. 2:50 From wherever you are pledging allegiance, 2:52 Blow up France! 2:53 Reduce France to crumbs! 2:56 Blow up the heads of its Kuffars! 2:58 In the same way that is permitted 3:00 to hit our sisters. 3:02 In the same way that is permitted 3:04 to render illicit 3:06 what Allah makes illicit. 3:08 In the same way that they 3:10 prevent our sisters from wearing Niqabs. 3:12 Blow up their heads, oh Allah! Blow up their heads! 3:14 Be it with a stone, 3:16 or anything at all if you can’t get a gun. 3:19 Ha Allah (Arabic expression) 3:20 There are stones, there are knives, there is all that you need. 3:22 Take an example of our brother Mohammed Merah 3:25 [ARABIC] Take an example from him! And blow up their heads! 3:31 Kill them! Kill them! 3:33 No matter where they are, kill them! 3:34 Do not let them live in peace, 3:36 in the same way that they don’t let 3:37 our brothers live in peace! 3:39 And again, 3:40 those who are capable of doing the Hijra should do it! 3:44 wallah, should do it! 3:46 Because after this day, there will be no (ARABIC word) before Allah 3:50 ARABIC 3:52 ARABIC blessing



Transcript of the news video:

00:00 It happened in the middle of the afternoon 00:04 in front of this police station locked up by a weekend security gate. 00:08 At 2 pm a man comes to the door. The police open it, 00:13 and he immediately attacks them. He had hidden 00:17 behind his back a knife like a big kitchen knife. 00:21 He attacked the security gate, very much on edge. 00:25 The officers came to see and opened the gate. He immediately he throw himself 00:29 on my colleagues, stabbing one in the hand 00:33 and attacking the neck and face of the second. 00:37 Two other police officers shoot; 00:41 the attacker is killed. Three police were hurt; tonight 00:45 their lives are not in danger. The Interior Minister, B. Cazeneuve, 00:49 arrived to support the police and to announce the first 00:53 elements of the inquiry. 00:57 Sources reported that he shouted “Allahu Akhbar”, can you confirm that or not? 01:01 Information which I received coming from first eyewitnesses 01:05 at this point confirms in effect 01:09 that this apparently was said before the violence began. 01:13 The attacker is originally from Burundi. 01:17 He is 20 years old and lives in the region of Tours. 01:21 And here is the testimony of a local resident 01:25 in front of the police station: 01:29 They said “please calm down”; he started to screech 01:33 and to struggle. Then I saw a very long knife. 01:37 I saw one police man falling to the ground with lots of blood spurting, here, 01:41 then another police lady whose head 01:45 was covered with blood, and a third one who was with them 01:49 was the one who pulled the trigger, he shot four times, I think. 01:53 After that there were too many people, I could see no more. 01:57 I remained very shocked by this scene and told what happened 02:02 And now to our correspondent, Guillaume Daret: 02:06 Is it now the Anti-Terrorist Section that took over this inquiry? 02:10 Absolutely. The individual killed by police this afternoon 02:14 was known for acts of delinquency, but not 02:18 for terrorist acts, by the intelligence services. But his brother was 02:22 a person of interest to our intelligence services; 02:26 that is the reason that the Anti-Terrorist Section has taken over this case. 02:30 The question tonight is: did this man act alone? Did he speak 02:34 to others about his act? In which case the inquiry 02:38 become an inquiry into an “association of criminals 02:42 with intent to commit terrorism”.



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