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Explosions and gunfire at Istanbul airport

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  • #62
    Severard
    Closed Accounts Posts: 126 ✭✭Severard


    The_Kew_Tour wrote: »
    The sad and disgusting thing is many innocent Muslims are disgusted by these attacks. But they need do more.

    I mean it's once every 2 months nearly at this stage

    Turkey has had a terrorist attack once every month for the last eleven months.


  • #63
    powerstar
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 133 ✭✭powerstar


    BBC reporting 28 are dead and 60 injured.


  • #64
    The_Kew_Tour
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    Holy ****. Just saw video of one of sucide bombers been shot before policeman runs away and man blows himself up 5 seconds later:(

    EVENFLOW



  • #65
    bilston
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    Renegade Mechanic wrote: »
    FalconGirl wrote: »
    Awful stuff. Will be very telling who Erdogan attributes blame to. Maybe he'll stay silent.

    Kurds are certainly the safest bet...
    Still, too early to tell now, looks nasty as all hell in there :(

    I doubt very much it was the PKK. It would do massive damage to their cause to attack an airport potentially killing foreigners. Their beef is with Turkey.

    That isn't to say Erdogan won't blame them of course.


  • #66
    stuar
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    copy/paste:

    Abdulkadir Selvi (A Turkish news writer) says that: " Undercover policemen notices a man wearing overcoat and starts to follow him. He meets up with 2 other men and they realize they are being followed. They started open fire towards the policemen and one of the terrorist explodes himself at the international arrivals waiting lobby. This is where most of the casualties occurred. The other 2 terrorists go inside the international arrivals part and explodes themselves in there. It is suspected that there were 7 terrorists. - CNNTurk Television


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  • #67
    [Deleted User]
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    Some awful videos emerging..


  • #68
    yerwanthere123
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    The_Kew_Tour wrote: »
    The sad thing is that it's only matter time before Ireland gets attacked.

    Very sad times we live in.

    I think since WW2 only 3 days in that whole period has there been no conflict around the world.

    Sadly it's always innocent people who majority of loss of life.

    Really? I don't see it. Say what you want about Islamic extremists, but they usually declare their targets long before they actually strike. It's long known that they had targeted France and Belgium before they actually struck. Has Ireland ever offended them to the extent that they'd actually carry out attacks here? I don't think so. I know they included the Irish flag in that 'coalition of devils' video they released last year, but they also included the likes of Estonia, Slovakia and Finland, and I highly doubt they're going to be struck either. We're wide open to terrorist attacks if anybody genuinely did want to target us, so I reckon if they did want to they'd have done it a long time ago.


  • #69
    [Deleted User]
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    Ireland has been named as a target of theirs, unfortunately.


  • #70
    The_Kew_Tour
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    yerwanthere123 wrote: »
    Really? I don't see it. Say what you want about Islamic extremists, but they usually declare their targets long before they actually strike. It's long known that they had targeted France and Belgium before they actually struck. Has Ireland ever offended them to the extent that they'd actually carry out attacks here? I don't think so. I know they included the Irish flag in that 'coalition of devils' video they released last year, but they also included the likes of Estonia, Slovakia and Finland, and I highly doubt they're going to be struck either. We're wide open to terrorist attacks if anybody genuinely did want to target us, so I reckon if they did want to they'd have done it a long time ago.

    I so hope you're right and maybe you are spot on, but it's been worst kept secret in that there could be up to 300 ISIS fighters in Ireland that lived or moved on past 5-6 years

    Ireland might and most likely not their main target, but rather worrying

    EVENFLOW



  • #71
    clo1
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    i am due to stopover here during my flight from dublin to thailand. flights cost me 700 euro with turkish airlines. need advice.should i consider changing my flight?


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  • #72
    RobertKK
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    Deleted User wrote: »
    Ireland has been named as a target of theirs, unfortunately.

    ..and unfortunately some very soft targets available.


  • #73
    SnakePlissken
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    Gringo180 wrote: »
    Like men that drop nuclear bombs on hundreds of thousands of innocent civilians?!

    Not a bad idea, where do I sign up? *sarcasm*


  • #74
    [Deleted User]
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    I'm attending a rather big festival in London soon. Given that ISIS have said there could be attacks during Ramadan, which is still going on, it's hard not to have that at the back of your mind. I'm still going to go and have an incredible time, but still.


  • #75
    The_Kew_Tour
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    clo1 wrote: »
    i am due to stopover here during my flight from dublin to thailand. flights cost me 700 euro with turkish airlines. need advice.should i consider changing my flight?

    If you want or need to go I reckon it's your best bet. Depends how urgent you need go though

    EVENFLOW



  • #76
    tomwaterford
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    clo1 wrote: »
    i am due to stopover here during my flight from dublin to thailand. flights cost me 700 euro with turkish airlines. need advice.should i consider changing my flight?

    Chances are the airport will never be better protected than in the immediate aftermath of an attack


    Pure a case of closing door after horse has bolted....but follow your own intuition tbh


  • #77
    stuar
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    NSFW

    SNIP


  • #78
    [Deleted User]
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    stuar wrote: »
    SNIP

    Warning: NSFL.

    Features person seemingly being shot, lying on the ground, before detonating themselves.


  • #79
    KERSPLAT!
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    Mr. Farage wrote: »
    Reports Ali snackbar shouted just before attack. I'm stunned. I honestly thought it was the Hindu's.

    Mod

    Perma banned from AH. **** off and troll another website.


  • #80
    FortySeven
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    clo1 wrote: »
    i am due to stopover here during my flight from dublin to thailand. flights cost me 700 euro with turkish airlines. need advice.should i consider changing my flight?

    Any airport is a target. They rarely strike twice at the same target. I would not change plans.


  • #81
    FalconGirl
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    Severard wrote: »
    One suicide bomber was shot by a police officer before he could get near enough civilians, his vest detonated with no one near enough to get injured. At least that is some good news.

    There's a video of that incident on reddit. Cop done well considering terrorist was armed with a gun and a vest.


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  • #82
    Severard
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    Apparently there are four more terrorists that are still at large & one was caught. This is not confirmed though.

    Also it is two years to the day that Abu Bakr Al-Baghdadi declared an Islamic caliphate. It's likely that they are the perpetrators, although no one has admitted to it yet.


  • #83
    [Deleted User]
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    FalconGirl wrote: »
    There's a video of that incident on reddit. Cop done well considering terrorist was armed with a gun and a vest.

    That's crazy. Fair play to them. Can you imagine if they didn't act fast? 4 heavily armed terrorists with bombs could have resulted in a lot more dead.


  • #84
    [Deleted User]
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    clo1 wrote: »
    i am due to stopover here during my flight from dublin to thailand. flights cost me 700 euro with turkish airlines. need advice.should i consider changing my flight?

    I was through Brussels airport a couple of weeks after that attack, and on Egyptair flights to and from Cairo in the last month, after the crash. Brussels was locked down and as safe as an airport can be. It's very unlikely they'd target the same place twice in quick succession, they've already terrorised that population, they want to spread the terror further so they pick a different target. Ataturk is probably safer than any other airport for the near future.

    Only you can decide if you don't want to take the risk, but I wouldn't think twice.


  • #85
    RobertKK
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    6 of the 60 injured are in a critical condition.

    Hope they can be saved.


  • #86
    FizzleSticks
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  • #87
    The_Kew_Tour
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    Thing is will airport not be closed for week or so over this?

    EVENFLOW



  • #88
    dublinman1990
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    I was watching the Papers on BBC News tonight. The Daily Mirror is one paper that will have this story on it's front page tomorrow.

    I'm not going to look at videos of it on Twitter. Too disturbing for me but I send my condolences to the innocent people's families.


  • #89
    stuar
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    SNIP


  • #90
    FizzleSticks
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    This post has been deleted.


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  • #91
    stuar
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    LIVE from Istanbul after explosions rock airport

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mva92xKZC9M


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