terrorist attacks!
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- shapesalad0
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news…
At least one person has been killed and up to 30 have been injured after a car ploughed into crowds near a church in Berlin.
- Daily Mail: "Silver Renault Clio repeatedly mounted pavement and drove 600ft before hitting a shop"Chimp
- Guardian: "It is not yet known whether it was an accident or a deliberate act,"Chimp
- I love how John Barrowman is using this to gain relevance again. Go Captain Jack!jmckinno
- They put up a lot of barriers in the same area after the terrorist attack at a christmas market at the same spot. I guess they will make it car-free soon.jmckinno
- @chimp =- that's why I have the Mail high in my List To Check when Something Happens as they're happy to go with unsubstatiated claims for clicks...Nairn
- ..which tends to mean they report actuality before the likes of The Beeb or The Grauniad can, given the latters' 'higher journalistic standards'.Nairn
- @Nairn, yep it's always good to check more than one source. You can see each agenda more clearly.Chimp
- Well, I always say that The Guardian and the Daily Mail are basically two sides of the same shit coin...Nairn
- Haha yep.Chimp
- dailmail is as nairn says.shapesalad
- sofas0
- oh boy, he's an incel.Gnash
- sub-reddit groups and 4chan are the next Video-games-cause-vi... sound bite.Gnash
- Jesus, can we start a go fund me for some prostitures for these fuckwits?_niko
- something male privilege something rape culture something patriarchy somethinglowimpakt
- I iz sorry but that reporter is scary yo!helloeatbreathedrive
- that elliot rodger was a sick fuck too, jesus.helloeatbreathedrive
- guaranteed this guy was on the spectrum. it's a tough world for themGnash
- Bluejam0
"The Barcelona-based newspaper La Vanguardia reported late on Friday afternoon that the police were hunting four suspects. It named them as 17-year-old Moussa Oukabir – the suspect thought to have driven the van along Las Ramblas – Mohamed Hychami, 24, Younes Abouyaaqoub, 22, and Said Aallaa, 18. All live in or close to the Catalonian town of Ripoll. Oukabir’s age has also been given elsewhere as 18."
- detritus0
My heart jumps up into my throat every time i see this thread bumped after a while of quietude.
- sureshot0
Brussels station evacuated after reports of explosion
- BREAKING: Police 'neutralized' person wearing explosive belt at Brussels Central Station - https://twitter.com/…sureshot
- ughKrassy
- I wonder who could have done something like this in Europe? it's such a peaceful, welcoming society there...robotron3k
- ^ More likely to get shot by a cop or some crazy with a gun in America than being the victim of a terrorist attack in Europe mate.BusterBoy
- But America is such a peaceful welcoming society.BusterBoy
- detritus0
this had me giggling a bit.
This, on the other hand, did not.
https://www.liveleak.com/view?i=…
(terrible source and quite grim viewing. I've watched it a few times, taking in how quickly Shit Happens in a situation like this. Now all I can think about is my gf being there not long beforehand and wtf she'd've done had she been attacked).
- I'm wathcing the victim's reaction here, I mean - not the deaths of the shit-eating pricks.detritus
- tldr; Fucking Run.detritus
- what's on the other link? not watching if it's civilians getting killed/injured.lowimpakt
- Also, I think the victim here survived.
How, I do not fucking know.detritus - It's the fuller version of this
https://www.youtube.…detritus - Yeah, sorry, low. I'm trying to get insight here, not douse myself in others' tragedy.detritus
- horrible as it is, it may be useful to play through these scenarios out in your head in case you ever find yourself in a situation.lowimpakt
- I try to read and see as little as possible since the Nice attack. This one was too grim... just imagining the scene :/dyspl
- hey dyspl, good to see you... although rather not here :\
xdetritus - :)
Hope you're welldyspl - Was chatting to 'the Italian mafia' on Saturday. Fucking grim and such lovely people.mugwart
- I was down getting drunk with them after market in the back on Saturday :)detritus
- yuekit1
^ Isn't that first link actually saying that Saudi Arabia funds Muslim extremism?
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-n…
“It is no secret that Saudi Arabia in particular provides funding to hundreds of mosques in the UK, espousing a very hardline Wahhabist interpretation of Islam. It is often in these institutions that British extremism takes root.”
The Saudis along with Qatar have also been trying to overthrow Assad in Syria and a major part of this was funding and arming Islamist fighters including ISIS. Part of the war of Sunni Muslim countries against Iran.
This was even directly stated by Hilary Clinton in the Wikileaks emails:
"we need to use our diplomatic and more traditional intelligence assets to bring pressure on the governments of Qatar and Saudi Arabia, which are providing clandestine financial and logistic support to ISIL and other radical Sunni groups in the region."
https://wikileaks.org/podesta-em…
Of course the US and UK give money and sell weapons to the Saudis (Trump just made the largest weapons sale in history to them). And they appear to be covering for them, otherwise why is this not a much bigger story considering how much the media talks about ISIS.
- Aside from selling weapons to Saudi an end to the decades long bombing and general fucking up of the region may help matters.fadein11
- #Pray For Middle East ?Dillinger
- It's all a charade. Fund this one, fund that one, on and on it goes...if we cared to sort it out we could, but solutions serve few.formed
- Cactus1
- Looks like England has a war going in but nobody wants to say anything.robotron3k
- war it is.sureshot
- A friend of Sadiqi_was
- detritus2
Sky news just apologised for having footage which previously ended with an obscenity, so they reshowed the footage which then finished with a loudly exclaimed 'cunt!'.
Place where it was is a German-themed bar I've been to a few times.
Yaay.
- I've a few friends who work at borough market, all through my partner. She's spent the last 2 hours spacking out.detritus
- One says he some of it happen.
Yaay.
Literally, my partner was there 2 hours beforehand. Not happy.detritus - Well, 3 hours I guessdetritus
- Which stalls do they work at? Curious as I'm always there.
Hope none of them were hurt. One of the best parts of London. World units with decent food!mugwart - The Italian-run ones, truffles, drunken cheese, Parma ham and mozzarella stalls, others too. A veritable mafia!detritus
- Mushroom ones? Haaha I get all my shrooms from there!mugwart
- shellie0
I was reading that the terror threat in the UK was raised to critical which is supposed to mean another attack may be immanent. ive never heard of this scale outside of the US. The last time i remeber something like this being used it was the Bush era. How serious do you take those scales in the UK? Will you actually change habbits around this? Or, do you just use this warning as a way to keep the general public's eye open.
- We pay no more heed than normal, but that 'normal' (as Robotron hinted at earlier today) tends already towards the considerative and somewhat apprehensive.detritus
- "Fuck'em".
I think that's the general idea.detritus - When I was a kid, we had an IRA shooting near my school and then regular bomb threats/alerts (mostly from students, I assume). This is no new normal.detritus
- Life is shit, but here we are.
We get on.detritus - Tea?detritus
- I'll reference a English saying"Keep a stiff upper lip" - Remain resolute and unemotional in the face of adversity, or even tragedy.robotron3k
- Military on the streets will become the new norm.face_melter
- Yeah, apparently I spoke too soon.detritus
- Yep - army on the streets of UK Robo. Wrong again.fadein11
- Bennn2
Everytime an attack happen, the medias, the politicians and the people have the same reactions and says the same things.
And we all go back to where we were and forget about it very quickly.
Its weird.
- HAYZ1LLLA0
- Now strip out all the victims from internal/ nationalist causes...detritus
- Yep - so truefadein11
- Really interesting chart. Those attacks in70s are mostly done by separatist europeans.You can say we're living in a relatively peaceful period compared to thoseBeeswax
- Curious about the difference between this chart and Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia…mort_
- Mein gott, I didn't realise how much of a beating the UK took compared to other EU countries. +1 Ireland, I guess?detritus
- < this just tells me we're too contentious a lot of cunts to exist within a civilised EU framework. Fuck 'em all.detritus
- RAAR!
*paddles into middle of Atlantic, alone*detritus
- ArchitectofFate2
So... I was at the Swedish equivalent of the dmv some 2-300 meters from the place where he crashed the truck, and the first story we got was that terrorists drove a truck into åhlens(the store) that there was a bomb in the centralstation subway and a shooting in fridhemsplan (where I work) the bomb and shooting where later denied as socialmedia fuckery. People were scared shitless. But just as face_melter I walked my 4+ hours home under constant "are you safe?" bombardment from wifey and friends.
Then this happens: when I get home and check in on my friends from work, I see that my boss sent an email:
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Good that everyone is safe. It took me almost 3h to get home. Not how we wanted to end our week.On another note sales are looking up so let's hope that we're in for a shopping weekend, 'coz then we're probably gonna' hit our numbers.
"4 people died, one of them a fucking 11 y.o kid you cumguzzling squattermattress. And tomorrow åhlens is having a clearence sale on all smoke-damaged products. Just wanted to get this shit out.
- 'squattermattress'. Jesus. Even i never go that far.detritus
- well, thank my L.A. friends for that linguistic concoction <3ArchitectofFate
- vero_vandal-3
Gunman screaming 'Allahu Akbar' opens fire in supermarket
http://www.express.co.uk/news/wo…- say it ain't sohelloeatbreathedrive
- ^ wtf with this handledopepope
- stop posting BS lieslowimpakt
- Who is posting lies?Jetserf
- How does one carry gasoline in their pockets?ETM
- Bottles, balloons, condoms ¯\_(ツ)_/¯Jetserf
- @Jetserf - the guy from the basque region. and a regular customer. the Express only posted the segment of CCTV where you can't see his face, to raise fearlowimpakt
- < Not Terrorism!HAYZ1LLLA
- A lot of places blur perpetrators faces. www.laregion.es, www.news.com.au, and www.dailymail.co.uk all have the same story sans video.Jetserf
- yes but the video was available that made it more obvious he wasn't some typical islamic terrorism/ They specifically chose not to show those images becauselowimpakt
- the Express is a racist rag of a paper and they wanted to stoke irrational fear in gullible readers.lowimpakt
- Seems like he doesn't like the wine... A basque who doesn't like wine, is not basque ;)OBBTKN
- Continuity2
This update from the BBC:
'The driver is believed to be under arrest while the co-driver died.'
- What is a co-driver?sarahfailin
- um.... 2 little people driving? one takes the steering wheel the other takes the pedal?pango
- i'll let my self out.......pango
- Beeswax-1
- story?PonyBoy
- Pathetic... Send him to a gulagOBBTKN
- ISIS love sushi, that is why.ApeRobot
- Source in Turkish. Goog translate won't help much. http://www.ntv.com.t…Beeswax
- They found in his cell his messaging with ISIS members to meet with and join them. He's going to be deported.Beeswax
- Now this shows that this is not a purely religious motivation.Beeswax
- that fal home boy is carrying was designed in belgiumterry_cloth
- Cactus2
- The bombings are a lie.
#wakeupsheepleORAZAL - +1
Stupid shit like this deserves to be on the frontpage.ORAZAL - Hallo??
Alluha Akbar??georgesIII
- The bombings are a lie.
- reanimate-1
These kinds of lone wolf attacks, as tragic as they are, are not much worse than everyday criminal violence in terms of the casualties. The true danger is if one of these groups gets their hands on a dirty bomb, biological weapon or nuclear weapon.
- Lone wolf?ORAZAL
- Maybe that's the wrong term. I meant not planned by a big organization like 9/11reanimate
- https://i.imgur.com/…ORAZAL
- <file under retarded>ORAZAL
- FLOLfadein11
- but it's ISIS!!cruddlebub
- His point is that ISIS is a lie.
#wakeupsheepleORAZAL - Thought it was "inspired by" rather than directly carried out by ISIS?reanimate
- That's what the reptilian overlords want you to believe.ORAZAL
- Anyway, nvrmind. Delete comment :)reanimate
- If you're reading this it's too late.ORAZAL
- eh, dude, they've all been training in Syria before they returned to belgiumWeyland
- pinkfloyd0
Fuck this, i'm leaving nyc
- we avoided the subway this morningmonospaced
- good ideapinkfloyd
- the terrorists have beaten monodoesnotexist
- @doesnotexist, are you being serious, or trying to be funny? Thing is, yes... they did beat me and many in this city today.monospaced
- whenever something like this happens in Europe, NYC gets a little on edge, because it could easily happen heremonospaced
- @monospaced, does it matter?doesnotexist
- no, because you're rightmonospaced
- my wife and I were talking... we'd of done the same if faced w/the same decision, mono.PonyBoy
- georgesIII1
how are the odds to have two terrorist attacks in less than a week in two cities I grew up in..
I guess Seoul is next :/