06-28-2016, 01:40 PM
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Join Date: Oct 2001
Location: sector 7G
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Explosion, gunfire at airport in Istanbul
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06-28-2016, 01:50 PM
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Join Date: Dec 2012
Location: On your last nerve...:D
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Just finished reading about this. 
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06-28-2016, 01:57 PM
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Aug 2008
Location: California
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Wonder if it is ISIS or the Kurdish separatists.
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06-28-2016, 02:12 PM
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#4
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Join Date: Oct 2001
Location: sector 7G
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660 NEWS Calgary @660NEWS 7m7 minutes ago
#UPDATE: A Turkish official says two attackers have blown themselves up at #Istanbul's Ataturk airport after police fire at them.
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06-28-2016, 02:14 PM
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#5
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Powerplay Quarterback
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Some People are ####ed.
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06-28-2016, 02:15 PM
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Atomic Nerd
Join Date: Jul 2004
Location: Calgary
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From the main forum page, it says
Explosion, gunfire at airport...
I thought it was YYC
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06-28-2016, 02:30 PM
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#7
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Retired
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I thought it was Constantinople.
I don't think it would be possible to stop these random bombings without extreme measures to the point even the TSA would look lackadaisical.
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06-28-2016, 02:47 PM
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First round-bust
Join Date: Feb 2015
Location: speculating about AHL players
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Why does it have to be a surprise when a week goes by without hearing about something like this?
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06-28-2016, 02:52 PM
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Join Date: Oct 2001
Location: Vancouver
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Quote:
Originally Posted by habernac
660 NEWS Calgary @660NEWS 7m7 minutes ago
#UPDATE: A Turkish official says two attackers have blown themselves up at #Istanbul's Ataturk airport after police fire at them.
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I'm not an expert on this, but I think Kurdish separatists are fairly secular and don't usually blow themselves up.
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06-28-2016, 03:06 PM
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Doesn't this belong in the ongoing terrorism thread?
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06-28-2016, 03:15 PM
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Ate 100 Treadmills
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Quote:
Originally Posted by FlamesAddiction
I'm not an expert on this, but I think Kurdish separatists are fairly secular and don't usually blow themselves up.
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It's hard to know what attacks are actually being perpetrated by who, as the Turkish government jumps all over any opportunity to exploit a situation for propaganda reasons.
I'd largely agree though that Kurdish attacks generally do not involve suicide vests. However, the suicide vest thing was actually started by the Tamil Tigers, who were also secular. There's the whole paradise thing but a suicide vest is also a very effective weapon in a crowded area. In this case, it looks like the vests were a fall back weapon after they couldn't enter the airport itself.
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06-28-2016, 03:24 PM
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Dec 2005
Location: back in the 403
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Delgar
I thought it was Constantinople.
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Byzantium
Ugh, beyond sick of all this crap. Is any public place safe anymore? People are the worst
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06-28-2016, 03:57 PM
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I was in Istanbul/Turkey about 9 months ago, and was already starting to feel a bit sketched out. Since then there have been bombings at the Blue Mosque, Iskiltal street, and now the airport, all places I visited frequently.
Tour guides I met all said tourism was down in a big way.
Just not a safe place to travel anymore.
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06-28-2016, 04:47 PM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by blankall
I'd largely agree though that Kurdish attacks generally do not involve suicide vests. However, the suicide vest thing was actually started by the Tamil Tigers, who were also secular.
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This remains literally the only example of suicide bombings being perpetrated for non-religious reasons. These days, it's exclusively a jihadist tactic.
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06-28-2016, 05:04 PM
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Ate 100 Treadmills
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Quote:
Originally Posted by CorsiHockeyLeague
This remains literally the only example of suicide bombings being perpetrated for non-religious reasons. These days, it's exclusively a jihadist tactic.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/March_2016_Ankara_bombing
The Kurds recently used a suicide car bombing. Not a vest, but the same principle.
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06-28-2016, 05:10 PM
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Retired
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Sainters7
Byzantium
Ugh, beyond sick of all this crap. Is any public place safe anymore? People are the worst
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Clearly you are educated. I just know a catchy song.
Not to make light of the situation, but what can you do with so much going on in the world.
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06-28-2016, 05:34 PM
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Franchise Player
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Are there lots of conservative Christians in Turkey?
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06-29-2016, 05:03 AM
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At the world nuclear expo in Paris this week. So far I've waited outside the terminal 3 train station for 45 minutes while police and armed forces crawled all over it due to a suspicious package.
To get into the conference center I had my passport checked against my conference ID, my backpack searched, a pat down, my ID checked again, my backpack x-rayed and finally a walk through a scanner. And you f course there are armed security and armed forces walking in and around the conference proceedings.
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