Terrorist Attack Istanbul Airport, Explosion, Gunfire

[charwin95]

I think that it is high time we get together and ban all suicide bombers.

I mean, really, what the hell does ANYONE need with an explosive vest?

How about backpack sweetie?

 

[Picaro]

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You proved yourself that you are a ZIKA baby.

uh oh ... somebody missed their Hug assignment, and an airport got blown up!!!

 

[Intolerant]

Maybe someone stole his prayer rug.

 

[Ame®icano]

OK lefties... time to cry racism.

Japan's top court has approved blanket surveillance of the country's Muslims

 

[Ame®icano]

Here is one more...

Japan accepts 27 refugees last year, rejects 99 percent

Only 27 out of 7,586 applications approved.

Japan accepted only 27 refugees last year and rejected almost all applications, officials said Saturday, as rights groups urged the government to allow more people in.

 

[Brynmr]

Just in: Moslem terrorists with links to the Islamic state, responsible.

 

[Pogo]

Just in: Moslem terrorists with links to the Islamic state, responsible.

Actually it was "in' several hours ago -- a Russian an Uzbek and a Kyrgyz, with suspected DAESH sympathies.

Article doesn't say what their religions were.

Amazingly like when Tim McVeigh blew up the Murrah building. News reports didn't mention his religion either.

Perhaps they were --- I dunno -- focused on the actual story. What a concept.

 

[Slade3200]

Just in: Moslem terrorists with links to the Islamic state, responsible.

Actually it was "in' several hours ago -- a Russian an Uzbek and a Kyrgyz, with suspected DAESH sympathies.

Article doesn't say what their religions were.

Amazingly like when Tim McVeigh blew up the Murrah building. News reports didn't mention his religion either.

Perhaps they were --- I dunno -- focused on the actual story. What a concept.

Scratch Russia from Trumps invite list. The bouncers are going to have their hands full for this party.

 

[waltky]

ISIS round-up in Turkey after Istanbul airport attack...

Around 20 Islamic State members in custody over Istanbul airport attack: Erdogan
Sat Jul 2, 2016 - Around 20 Islamic State militants, mainly foreigners, are in custody in connection with an attack last week on Istanbul airport that killed 45 people, Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan said on Saturday.

Two Russian nationals have been identified as suspected Islamic State suicide bombers in the attack that is thought to have been masterminded by a Chechen, Turkish media said on Friday.

A still image from CCTV camera shows the three men believed to be the attackers walking inside the terminal building at Istanbul airport, Turkey​

"The latest findings point to the Daesh (Islamic State) terrorist organisation," Erdogan told Reuters at the Istanbul Ataturk airport, where he visited the attack site.

Around 20 Islamic State members in custody over Istanbul airport attack: Erdogan

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Russians among Turkey attackers
Sun, Jul 03, 2016 - Two Russians have been identified as suspected Islamic State group suicide bombers in the attack on Istanbul Ataturk Airport that is thought to have been masterminded by a Chechen, Turkish media said on Friday.

Forty-four people were killed in Tuesday’s bombings and shootings, which targeted one of the world’s busiest airports. Prosecutors have identified two of the three suspected attackers as Russians Rakim Bulgarov and Vadim Osmanov, the state-run Anadolu Agency said. Turkish officials declined to comment. One government official had previously said the attackers were Russian, Uzbek and Kyrgyz nationals. The pro-government Yeni Safak newspaper has said the organizer of the attack, the deadliest in a series of suicide bombings in NATO member Turkey this year, was suspected to be a Chechen double-amputee named Akhmed Chatayev. Chatayev is identified on a UN sanctions list as an Islamic State leader responsible for training Russian-speaking militants. He was arrested in Bulgaria five years ago on a Russian extradition request, but freed because he had refugee status in Austria, a Bulgarian judge said. A year later he was wounded and captured in Georgia, but again released.

Turkish police on Friday detained 11 foreigners in Istanbul on suspicion of belonging to an Islamic State cell linked to the attack, Anadolu reported, bringing the number of people detained in the investigation to 24. A police spokesman could not confirm the report. In a separate operation, 17 Islamic State militants were detained in the southeastern city of Gaziantep on Friday, the city’s governor office said in a statement. Turkish officials have not given many details beyond confirming the attackers’ nationalities. They have previously said that forensic teams were struggling to identify the suicide bombers from their limited remains.

Yeni Safak has said one of the bombers was from Dagestan, Russia, which borders Chechnya where Moscow has led two wars against separatists and militants since the Soviet Union collapsed in 1991. Chatayev lost his arm after being captured by Russian forces during fighting in Chechnya in 2000 and later claimed he was tortured, according to a 2010 statement from Amnesty International, which had called on Ukraine not to extradite him to Russia at the time. In 2012, Georgian officials said Chatayev had been wounded in a special forces operation against an unidentified group in the remote Lopota Gorge near the border with Dagestan. The group was believed to be made up of Russian insurgents fighting against Moscow’s rule in the North Caucasus.

Chatayev, whose foot was later amputated due to his injuries, was arrested on charges of weapons possession. He denied this and said that he had been sent to the gorge as a negotiator at the request of Georgian officials. He was released on the orders of a Georgian court later that year and cleared of all charges in January 2013. “He was released lawfully, whether it was a mistake or not,” former Georgian minister of the interior Vakhtang Gomelauri said this year. Separately, Turkish security forces detained four Turkish citizens on Wednesday at Turkey’s Oncupinar border crossing with Syria on suspicion of membership of a terrorist group, the local governor’s office said in a statement. The four were attempting to return to Turkey from a conflict zone in Syria under Islamic State group control, it said.

Russians among Turkey attackers - Taipei Times