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The Guardian reports on a complex picture emerging around the identity of the attackers:
As police worked to identify the seven militants, all of whom died in the attacks, Molins also confirmed that at least one of the fighters, identified by his fingerprints, was a French national from the Paris suburb of Courcouronnes. The man, born in 1985, had a criminal record and had been flagged as an extremist as early as 2010, the prosecutor said.
Relatives of one of the attackers, a Frenchman born in the Paris suburbs, were later arrested on Saturday, according to French authorities who said that searches were underway.
Molins also said earlier that a Syrian passport, belonging to a man born in 1990 who was not known to the French authorities, had been found lying close by the bodies of two other jihadis, who both blew themselves up in the course of their attacks.
Greece’s citizen protection minister, Nikos Toskas, said earlier that that the passport’s owner had entered the European Union through the Greek island of Leros on 3 October, adding: “We do not know if the passport was checked by other countries through which the holder likely passed.”
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Hard News: Friday Music: Loxene and Beyond, in reply to Simon Grigg,
Just clarified this with Andrew. The dates were listed in Rip It Up but clearly didn't happen. RIU had 1 & 2 December in the schedule.
Shame, really. It would have been good to be able to say: "That time I saw New Order at the Hillsborough ..."
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Hard News: Friday Music: Loxene and Beyond, in reply to Martin Brown,
Two perspex swirls that have survived against the odds and are enjoying retirement on a suburban piano. Impossible to photograph, still.
Bravo!
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Hard News: Friday Music: Loxene and Beyond, in reply to Alan Perrott,
kick off at 5pm. just hoping the sun stays with us, it's rather glorious outside.
Ideal little ride over for me, then.
pity the cricket will probably ruin everything.
It's going to be fine. Oh, all right, it probably isn't ...
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From my friend Andrew Boak on FB:
I was stage manager for a "Songwriters Showcase" tour of the US that he was on. He was such a polite southern gent and an amazing piano player....
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Hard News: Friday Music: Loxene and Beyond, in reply to Danielle,
Also, LaBelle's "Lady Marmalade"? He produced it.
Ah. Someone was telling me he wrote it, but I looked it up and he hadn't.
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Hard News: Friday Music: Loxene and Beyond, in reply to Alan Perrott,
I’ve got that Golden Harvest 45, but being technologically challenged you’ll have to pop along to Golden Dawn on Sunday to hear it. heh.
What time!?
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Hard News: Friday Music: Loxene and Beyond, in reply to Doug Hood,
New Order played the Hillsborough Tavern? eh?
That's what I thought. But it says they did in Andrew's story.
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Polity: An Orwellian Alice in Wonderland, in reply to Mark Graham,
You say this, but there are plenty of people out there who thinks what he’s doing is okay, fed by a stream of vituperative supporting babble from the likes of Paul Henry, Leighton Smith, et el.
Henry did actually give Key something of a grilling this week. Leighton Smith just lives in a different reality and no evidence-based argument will sway him.
I had a bizarre Twitter conversation yesterday with a guy who was insistent that John Key wants to keep the bad men in Australia and Labour want to bring them here. No amount of explanation, linked stories etc would dissuade him from this understanding.
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Another passing this week: Phil(thy Animal) Taylor, the legendary Motorhead drummer, aged 61.
He will always be the master of the double kick drum ...
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