Istanbull can't even get its own thread 7 major attacks in 4 continents in 9 months By the JV team Egypt-Oct France-Nov US-Dec Indonesia-Jan Belgium-March US-June Turkey- June
Terror in Turkey 2016: Jan 12, Istanbul: 12 killed Feb 17, Ankara: 30 killed March 13, Ankara: 37 killed June 28, Istanbul: 41 killed
it all depends on how you define terrorism; the only terror in my neighborhood is when rival groups of gangbangers take to shooting at each other and that is not real often. I am more scared of stupid drivers than these childish savages in the middle east. But this zhit is on television all the time and many people take that for reality so I guess we are stuck with this mass fearfulness as long as people don't have anything to do but watch television. But fear not: our republic is into its quadrennial search for the white knight and this year's options are a Tracy Flick clone and a malignant narcissist whose prior greatest service to the world was as promoter of a cheezey beauty contest. I am upbeat, as always.
This is rich The Istanbul massacre mastermind was a “refugee” protected by the European Union before he left to join ISIS. EU reporters and Amnesty International defended Islamist Ahmed Chataev from deportation in 2009.
A 1-arm 1-foot man training ISIS? Maybe we should leave him in place. It sounds like Monty Python is training new ISIS recruits.
Jihad 101: How to blow your own hand and foot off using improvised explosive devices. (3 hours) M-W-F 1-2:00. Lab (1 hour) 6-7:00 Th. ; Chataev, A.
Now THAT'S funny. ISIS University? Would the mascot be a "suicide bomber"? The article above infers that the Russian cut his arm off and tortured him while he was in their custody. Nobody knows how he was released (or escaped?) from the Russian prison.
Here's an in depth story of the man behind the Istanbul massacre. You won't see this in the western press. https://southfront.org/akhmed-chataev-an-inconvenient-fighter-against-russia/
So, hardly any coverage on the Bangladesh hostage situation, even though 2 US citizens died? I wonder if it is due to the horrific nature of this latest attack? From hostages that were rescued comes reports that this time, instead of shooting or blowing everyone up, these terrorists forced the hostages to recite passages from the Koran, if successful, they were separated and given food and water. If the hostages could not, there have been claims of "torture prior to killing", and death by sharp objects. Some rumors say there were beheadings. Is this to be an escalated version, Terrorism 301, the hostages killed will not be so random, and be specifically chosen for death based on faith? I'm puzzled that we stand with Paris, Brussels, etc., but hardly a peep about Bangladesh from the US media. Do we not care as much about Bangladesh, even though American blood was shed, or, do we want to keep this one quiet due to the extra disturbing circumstances?
The current administration wants to keep ANY terror attacks by ISIS quiet or minimized... not doing so conflicts with the bold claims by John Kerry about ISIS faltering.
Wow, if the Europeans wouldn't deport the one armed, one footed guy, they won't deport anybody. Europe is headed down a dark path and there doesn't appear to be anything to save them as long as the liberals are in power.
Why stop there? They are always trying to hijack planes. Good people don't need to travel by air anyway.
SH, I haven't watched the last couple of days, but is CNN giving the complete details--at least the part about killing only the non-Muslims? It appeared the last airport bombing was meant to 1) blow people up and 2) send in other terrorists to gather hostages. Fortunately, the police were able to shoot the terrorists running in to the airport. I wonder if that will be a new part to the whole terror plot. Up the ante by holding hostages, and killing the non-Muslims. I haven't read or heard much about the hostages being separated based on the ability to recite passages from the Quran. Koran. However you want to spell it.
I haven't watched CNN but this is on their homepage, 5 links down in headline stories. They also had an interesting profile on one of the attackers. Upper middle-class boy who left the house for "exams" at his private school in February and vanished. The family (father is a Telcom exec) spent 4 months searching for him until just recently someone showed them a picture of him on a Jihadist website. Frontline did a very good piece titled "The Secret History of ISIS" in May. In it they profiled Zarkawi's attempts to create a sectarian civil war in Iraq as a way of advancing their fundamentalist agenda. It would make sense if these fundamentalists now want to make this 100% a religious war; Muslims vs. Everyone else. We know they already see it in those terms but these ~50k religious zealots could be trying to spark the other 1.6B Muslims to join in.
Huserk I think you are right, ' ~50k religious zealots could be trying to spark the other 1.6B Muslims to join in. " Although IMO the number of zealots is in millions. Interesting whiney article in NYTimes today . The writer, Anne Barnard, laments on the seeming lack of outrage and compassion for the people in muslim countries murdered by islamists, no hashtags like #prayforIraq, no flying of Iraqi flags etc. She quoted muslims whining that " no one cares about us. They hypocrisy in the western world is strong." These Muslim whiners apparently don't think to ask where the outrage is in muslim majority countries of which there are many considering there are 1.6 Billion muslims in the world. What action are any of these muslim countries taking, both symbolic and actual to counter the muslim against muslim attacks in muslim countries?
So Muslims get killed by Muslims, and that hack of a writer finds a way to say that the victims should be mad at non-Muslims.
