Global terrorism thread

The spirits that Erdogan called... . That happens if a) you allow radical Islamists for years to use your country as a recruitment center because they'll dispose of your political rival (Assad) and b) start a civil war against the Kurds in order to gain domestic support.

Anyone claim responsibility yet?

Whoever it is, chances are the Sultan's actions did prompt them and the other attacks in recent times, yeah?

Sure, but the response will differ depending on who is responsible. If Kurds, the current Turkish actions in the insurgency gets notched upwards. If Daesh....I can't imagine they'd actually deploy the full might of the Turkish Army even after this, so more artillery strikes/

Sucks

Even if ISIS claims responsibility, the Sultan will go after the Kurds anyway.

ISIS seems to be avoiding claiming responsibility for attacks in Turkey so as to give the Turkish goverment the chance to do just that. The Kurds will claim responsibility if it is them, if we here nothing it's probably ISIS but will be blamed on the Kurds.

The GDS says that it points to IS and the attacks started when security guards were trying to inspect their bags via x-ray machines.

Decided to go all out before the guards found what they carried.

36 dead and 147 injured (as of now, according to CNN) but could this have been much worse had they gotten through security? An attempted hijacking even?

(Video) Stratfor Vice President of Tactical Analysis Scott Stewart examines the tactics used in the attack on the Istanbul Ataturk Airport: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lipfZaiGksc

More attacks will be coming unless they find the handlers quick. Whoever gave them the training and weapons are still at large.

My newspaper did run an article today about the most recent attack in Turkey, with the following points:

• The attack happened despite the increased security measures.
• The Turkish government appears to have neglected the ISIS threat for far too long, with its focus on the PKK.
• The intelligence community apparently committed egregious errors with no consequences when these errors cause things to go awry.
• Criticisms of the anti-terrorism policies get dismissed as "treasonous".
• The media tend to become the government's mouthpieces, investigations produce results very quickly but with little accounting for later inconsistencies.

Turkey hasn't neglected ISIS, they're funding and arming them. And the Turkish government is fine with letting it's citizens die in these attacks because ISIS is trying to wipe out the Kurds.

Well, yes, but they have neglected the threat it may pose to them. The thing about using someone as an asset is that that asset often has plans beyond being your asset.

We see this sort of thing too much in history. An organization sees a group they think they can manipulate, then it turns out whoops they have their own agenda

Too early to say if this is relevant to the thread but just saw it pop into my notifications

"U.S. Joint Base Andrews on lockdown over active shooter report" - http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSKCN0ZG1X7

EDIT: Looks like it was a false alarm. Got a new notification saying "No threat to Andrews Air Force base, there was a 'misidentification' of security forces: officials"

edited 30th Jun '16 9:11:57 AM by sgamer82

A false alarm is a good thing, really. Best outcome.

Airstrikes exact heavy damage on Daesh forces fleeing Fallujah: https://www.stratfor.com/situation-report/iraq-airstrikes-exact-heavy-damage-militants-retreat-fallujah

They must have thought the air support would focus only on the city proper and they could slip away somehow, or they thought "Okay if we ALL go at once some of us will make it out."

Did some looking around for footage, seems that an Iraqi helicopter squadron took out the convoy. Some Daesh fighters abandoned their vehicles and split up, but left their weapons behind. Looks like a lot of US weaponry that was stolen by them during the early parts of this conflict have now been recovered.

edited 30th Jun '16 1:25:04 PM by MayuZane

Someone I know in there says it was a tourist freaking out after seeing a group of "armed men" and calling 911.

Armed men in a military base? Whatever next?

hostage situation in Dhaka as I type this. Police are holding back due to terrorists lobbing grenades at them.

CNN reported at least 20 hostages in the cafe.

Bangladesh also had another machete murder recently, another Hindu priest was attacked and killed outside his temple.

edited 1st Jul '16 1:03:07 PM by Rationalinsanity

Said cafe is also a popular spot for expats and foreigners due to proximity to the embassy quarter of the city.

CNN reports at least 2 LE Os dead.

ISIS has claimed responsibility for the cafe attack, there are 2 dead and 40 injured (toll is expected to rise).

http://www.cnn.com/2016/07/01/asia/bangladesh-dhaka-shooting/index.html

What the hell is happening in Western and South Asia these days?

edited 1st Jul '16 2:49:46 PM by Bat178

Extremist leaders taking advantage of people's frustrations mixed with a government terrified to fight the fanatics at full force because they are unsure if they could have the people's support for an anti-terrorist campaign and risk falling further down the hole.

It's like seeing a spearman charge at you with a crowd next to you but you don't know if anyone will help you if you try to stop the spear, and you don't do anything because you're scared of finding out for yourself that nobody cares about you.

Though there have been thousands (18,000 people) arrested, the leaders are still at large.

edited 1st Jul '16 3:23:25 PM by MayuZane