The speculation is certainly getting complicated.

Originally Posted by Orbit v2

I saw that too, and was wondering if something got lost in translation there. It'd be very odd to send a helicopter with thermal imaging camera to see if someone was alive inside a car like that. I'd guess they were looking for other victims in the woods or somewhere away from the car.

Thermal image cameras also come in hand held form,just an fyi.

Originally Posted by Verhofstadt

Not at all, and nor am I suggesting so. In fact Areva are a industrial conglomerate with fingers in all sorts of pies, not solely nuclear.I'm just sharing the data I find in Weird Wide Web.

Going on past history of French security services if there is something deeper behind this horrific murder we'll be unlikely to find out anyway.

The murdered cyclist had only passed the other cyclist who discovered the bodies - it seems highly unlikely his meeting with the assassins was pre-arranged.

Additionally if the deceased British/Iraqi man was attending a prearranged meeting he would have been unlikely to bring his wife, kids and mother/mother in law.

Could be something in that line of thinking to make it look like a mad random killing and not a targeted assassination.
Whoever did it hasn't succeeded though.

Originally Posted by Picasso Republic

The murdered cyclist had only passed the other cyclist who discovered the bodies - it seems highly unlikely his meeting with the assassins was pre-arranged.

Additionally if the deceased British/Iraqi man was attending a prearranged meeting he would have been unlikely to bring his wife, kids and mother/mother in law.

Agreed. To be honest a professional hit makes me more at ease that the thought of some nut selecting this family at random.

Originally Posted by Verhofstadt

Agreed. To be honest a professional hit makes me more at ease that the thought of some nut selecting this family at random.

I still believe he was followed and that it was a hit - perhaps politically motivated, business issues, Iraq/Iran nuclear, Syria, Israel links who knows, but you get the sense at the moment that the Iraqi man was the target of a professional hit.

Dead cyclist was unlucky,

Ex RAF cyclist is a mere coincidence - many British live in this area and many British are ex forces.

Certainly one or more ruthless b@stards.

Some background on the man & his family here:

France shooting: 'He had no enemies. He's no Tinker Sailor Soldier Spy' - Telegraph

Originally Posted by economentalist

Thermal image cameras also come in hand held form,just an fyi.

They may have thought it was an Anders Breivik type attack and were afraid to go in on foot.

mossad outside of palenstine where they dont care tend to avoid coallaterial damage mind you in gaza and the west bank any there innocent bystanders from an israeli viewpoint
Criminals tend to avoid mass killing .
So something murky
Or a nutjob
Or some criminal whose lost the plot.

Perhaps something to with Iraq's ongoing bloodshed?
Saad Al-Hilla's name suggests he is a Shia whose family probably originates from Al Hillah south of Baghdad.
Iraqi exiles from both sides of the sectarian divide would not be above settling an old score on French soil.
I would presume the deceased had some sort of political involvement with Iraq.
He might also have been killed by Syrians or Iranian agents.

Or else some maniac or maniacs with no political agenda are on the loose.