FRENCH TERROR SCARE – AT 9:58 A.M.  ET:   A knife-wielding terrorist was killed by Paris police today on the first anniversary of the Charlie Hebdo attacks.  From Fox:

A man who tried to attack a Paris police station with a knife was shot and killed Thursday as France marked the anniversary of the terror attack on the satirical newspaper Charlie Hebdo.

Police shot the unidentified man, who a police union official said was shouting "Allahu Akbar" as he tried to enter a police station in the northern portion of the city. Another police official said the man was carrying a butcher's knife.

A search of the man's body uncovered a sheet of paper with the Islamic State flag and a claim of responsibility from the terror group, a Paris prosecutor said, according to Reuters.

Alexis Mukenge, who saw the shooting from inside another building, told the network iTele that police told the man, "Stop. Move back." Mukenge said officers fired twice and the man immediately dropped to the ground.

The Goutte d'Or neighborhood in Paris' 18th arrondissement, a multi-ethnic district not far from the Gare du Nord train station, was locked down, as were two metro lines running through the area, though they later reopened.

Police cleared out hundreds of people who had gathered at a subway station and along nearby streets. Shops were ordered shuttered along neighboring streets, and shop owners hastily rolled down metal shutters.

COMMENT:  What strikes us is the utter relentlessness of ISIS.  It's one attack after another.   We know that the assault in San Bernardino was ISIS-related.  We can, I'm afraid, expect more.

We note that the French police were equipped with firearms today.  When the magazine Charlie Hebdo was attacked last year, some police arrived on bicycles, unarmed.  Maybe lessons have been learned.

January 7, 2016