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Explosions and gunfire at Istanbul airport

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  • #92
    captbarnacles
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,972 ✭✭✭captbarnacles


    Deleted User wrote: »
    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.

    Definitely. Thinking of the damage Mumbai terrorists did after better armed police could have taken them.


  • #93
    The Backwards Man
    Closed Accounts Posts: 18,299 ✭✭✭✭The Backwards Man


    My wee brother was through Ataturk three times since Sunday for work, and flying out of again on Friday. His wife was visiting him when the last bomb went off on the police bus, was about a quarter of a mile away from it. Crazy thing is, I was chatting to him tonight and although he's glad to be leaving Turkey behind him, he reckons it hasn't a patch on Johannesburg, Rabat or Moscow for places he'd never return to.


  • #94
    KERSPLAT!
    Closed Accounts Posts: 31,152 ✭✭✭✭KERSPLAT!


    Mod

    Hi folks. I've snipped videos, they aren't suitable for here and are easily found if anyone does wish to view. Please don't post any NSFW videos i.e bombs going off, people being shot, maimed, etc.

    Thanks


  • #95
    FionnK86
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,218 ✭✭✭FionnK86


    My mam, and younger brother and sister flew out of there to Kenya last week, my nerves ae rattled/


  • #96
    stuar
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 1,019 ✭✭✭stuar


    Confirmed: Twitter and Facebook blocked in #Turkey by throttling at 1:06AM after #Ataturk #Istanbul airport attacks


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  • #97
    KERSPLAT!
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    I went to Turkey about 10 years ago, suicide bombers would have been the last thing on my mind. How the times have changed, its a genuine concern for pretty much everyone now. Those poor people likely flying out on holidays, to see loved ones, off to or home from a business trip, staff just doing a days work. Just horrible.


  • #98
    stuar
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 1,019 ✭✭✭stuar


    BREAKING: Senior Turkish official says nearly 50 people killed in attack at Istanbul's airport.


  • #99
    stuar
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 1,019 ✭✭✭stuar


    one of the attackers

    https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CmEhIplUkAEwp6I.jpg


  • #100
    Stheno
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    stuar wrote: »
    BREAKING: Senior Turkish official says nearly 50 people killed in attack at Istanbul's airport.

    Jesus that's horrific.


  • #101
    SnakePlissken
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,489 ✭✭✭SnakePlissken


    KERSPLAT! wrote: »
    I went to Turkey about 10 years ago, suicide bombers would have been the last thing on my mind. How the times have changed, its a genuine concern for pretty much everyone now. Those poor people likely flying out on holidays, to see loved ones, off to or home from a business trip, staff just doing a days work. Just horrible.
    But there were suicide bombings in Turkey 10 years ago, a young girl from Waterford was killed in one such attack, they've just become more and more frequent due to Turkey's complete mishandling of its security policies.


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  • #102
    stuar
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 1,019 ✭✭✭stuar


    52 now confirmed dead, I imagine it will rise as the night goes on....terrible.


  • #103
    stuar
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 1,019 ✭✭✭stuar


    Another explosion in Turkey


    a minute ago
    Whereas the airport bomb is thought to be from ISIS, the explosion in Van was attributed to PKK, the Kurdish movement. /u/ZugNachPankow

    2 minutes ago
    BREAKING: car bomb explosion in Van, 3 soldiers, 5 civilians killed


  • #104
    FortySeven
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    SnakePlissken wrote: »
    But there were suicide bombings in Turkey 10 years ago, a young girl from Waterford was killed in one such attack, they've just become more and more frequent due to Turkey's complete mishandling of its security policies.

    It's not due to any mishandling. It is impossible to defend against a heavily armed attacker who is determined to die for their cause. Ask anyone from Israel, one of the most secure nations on the planet.


  • #105
    Severard
    Closed Accounts Posts: 126 ✭✭Severard


    Worse yet, if this is ISIS then in a few days time or a couple of weeks at most, another attack will happen somewhere in the world and Al-Qaeda will claim responsibility. These two have been at this for quite some time now, some what like a game of one upmanship between the two so as to garner media attention to one and therefore recruit more fighters. So fcuked up.


  • #106
    FizzleSticks
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,172 ✭✭✭FizzleSticks


    This post has been deleted.


  • #107
    dr.bollocko
    Moderators, Music Moderators Posts: 35,948 Mod ✭✭✭✭dr.bollocko


    stuar wrote: »
    Confirmed: Twitter and Facebook blocked in #Turkey by throttling at 1:06AM after #Ataturk #Istanbul airport attacks

    Well that'll certainly help. How could it not. Jesus. What ****ed up priorities they have.


  • #108
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 26,920 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    stuar wrote: »
    Another explosion in Turkey


    a minute ago
    Whereas the airport bomb is thought to be from ISIS, the explosion in Van was attributed to PKK, the Kurdish movement. /u/ZugNachPankow

    2 minutes ago
    BREAKING: car bomb explosion in Van, 3 soldiers, 5 civilians killed

    Two terrorist attacks by two separate groups? What in the **** is happening?


  • #109
    stuar
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 1,019 ✭✭✭stuar


    dr.bollocko wrote: »
    Well that'll certainly help. How could it not. Jesus. What ****ed up priorities they have.

    Reports of multiple attackers, up to seven

    As of now, no terrorist organisation has claimed this attack, police sources say they attribute the attack to ISIS.

    Social media (Twitter and/or Facebook) are being blocked, only accesible through VPN.

    Another attack has happened in the east of Turkey, this is very likely not related.


  • #110
    Keplar240B
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 891 ✭✭✭Keplar240B


    As predicated 6 months ago by me as soon as Manjab fell to SDF the jihadi scorpion turned around stung its Turkish supplier


    http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2057522365&page=13


  • #111
    getzls
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 806 ✭✭✭getzls


    This is partly the reason people voted to leave the EU.
    Staying in would have caused easier access to the UK of terrorism


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  • #112
    stunmer
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 279 ✭✭stunmer


    stuar wrote: »
    People seem to forget the vast majority of victims of ISIS are Muslim.

    What difference does that make?

    It does not make ISIS any less Islamic.


  • #113
    clo1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 97 ✭✭clo1


    FizzleSticks wrote: »
    Just to add to what others have said, seeing as you are getting a connecting flight you won't even be near the departures/check in desk areas in which these incidents happened. You'd have more reason to worry about the roads in Thailand than anything happening to you catching a connecting flight, I'm just back from Thailand, you'll have a ball.

    aww thank you for this message.ive been so anxious since ive heard the news and needed to read a message like this. i mean if i was to change my flight the way the world is going u woukdnt be any safer anywhere else i think.


  • #114
    FortySeven
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    getzls wrote: »
    This is partly the reason people voted to leave the EU.
    Staying in would have caused easier access to the UK of terrorism

    Perceived perhaps. In reality England is still obligated to take asylum seekers and border checks are not going to be any more effective than they presently are in the UK.

    It was used to scare people. Eu open borders Will cause terrorism and economic migration. They'll take our jobs!

    Borders will always be porous. Look at the south of USA. Strong border just slows it a bit. UK cannot strengthen the border control much more.


  • #115
    stuar
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 1,019 ✭✭✭stuar


    stunmer wrote: »
    What difference does that make?

    It does not make ISIS any less Islamic.

    They are Sunni Wahabi extremists, in a league of their own, anybody not in their league/sect are considered fair game.


  • #116
    getzls
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 806 ✭✭✭getzls


    yerwanthere123 wrote: »
    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.

    . Has Ireland ever offended them to the extent that they'd actually carry out attacks here?

    Ireland will get its turn sometime.
    Islamic killing of what they see as Kafir's has been going on for 1400 years and will continue indefinitely.

    The book Koran commands it.
    This book can not be rewrote or changed.


  • #117
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 26,920 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    getzls wrote: »
    Ireland will get its turn sometime.
    Islamic killing of what they see as Kafir's has been going on for 1400 years and will continue indefinitely.

    The book Koran commands it.
    This book can not be rewrote or changed.

    This seems very.. threatening.


  • #118
    stunmer
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 279 ✭✭stunmer


    stuar wrote: »
    They are Sunni Wahabi extremists, in a league of their own, anybody not in their league/sect are considered fair game.

    This is true. I was replying to your response to this post:
    stuar wrote: »
    getzls wrote: »
    Religion's unlikely to be involved in this.
    Christian, Jewish, Hindu.

    Religion's likely to be involved in this, Islam.
    People seem to forget the vast majority of victims of ISIS are Muslim.

    You say "People seem to forget the vast majority of victims of ISIS are Muslim.".

    I don't understand the point you are trying to make. Care to explain? Does that make ISIS members not Muslim?


  • #119
    wakka12
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,786 ✭✭✭wakka12


    These mass attacks are just getting so common it seems..I just feel like hundreds of lives are being lost to Islamic terrorism every month now..Since this time last year just some of the many global attacks I can name off the top of my head.. Sousse,San Bernardino, Beirut,Paris, Brussels,Ankara Orlando, and now Istanbul..and certainly many more I cant remember, probably hundreds more in Iraq and Syria


  • #120
    stunmer
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 279 ✭✭stunmer


    wakka12 wrote: »
    These mass attacks are just getting so common it seems..I just feel like hundreds of lives are being lost to Islamic terrorism every month now..Since this time last year just some of the many global attacks I can name off the top of my head.. Sousse,San Bernardino, Beirut,Paris, Brussels,Ankara Orlando, and now Istanbul..and certainly many more I cant remember, probably hundreds more in Iraq and Syria

    Good list here (1983 - 2016) -> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Islamist_terrorist_attacks


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  • #121
    Corcaigh84
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 634 ✭✭✭Corcaigh84


    Third explosion confirmed


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