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Re: Terror Incidents Worldwide

Post by saip » Thu Oct 05, 2017 7:38 pm

Few years ago in Boston someone used a water gun against someone and the other guy used a real gun to shoot. What did the legislature do? Ban the water guns!! Likewise now there is a talk of banning/regulating bump-stocks but no talk of regulating the guns themselves or at least high capacity magazines.

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Post by Mort Walker » Thu Oct 05, 2017 7:47 pm

Was the US shooting terrorism? There is a mass shooting every 7-10 days in the US.

Edit: I take that back. Mass shooting is 3 or more persons. Those are more rare but not uncommon.

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Post by sbajwa » Thu Oct 05, 2017 8:21 pm

https://www.yahoo.com/news/nra-white-ho ... 49986.html

The White House and National Rifle Association both came out in favor of reviewing regulations of bump fire stocks, the device that contributed to the deaths of 58 people in the Las Vegas mass shooting Sunday night.

“The NRA believes that devices designed to allow semi-automatic rifles to function like fully-automatic rifles should be subject to additional regulations,” said the NRA in a statement released Thursday afternoon, its first public comments since the shooting.

Bump stocks are modifications that convert semi-automatic weapons to full automatics, allowing them to shoot hundreds of rounds per minute. They were originally created with the idea of making it easier for people with disabilities to shoot, but their demand has skyrocketed in the wake of the mass shooting as gun owners anticipate additional regulations on the devices. Bump stocks were found on twelve of the nearly two dozen firearms recovered from the hotel room of Las Vegas shooting suspect Stephen Paddock.

It was reported Thursday that the NRA had banned bump stocks at its own firing range in Fairfax, Va. While the NRA came out in favor of tighter regulations on bump stocks, it stopped short of voicing support for stricter gun laws across the board. In the same statement in which it endorsed the added bump-stock regulations, it also stated that banning guns would only increase crime and that Americans live in an “increasingly-dangerous world.”
A bump stock that attaches to a semi-automatic rifle to increase the firing rate is seen at Good Guys Gun Shop in Orem, Utah, on Oct. 4, 2017. (Photo: George Frey/Reuters)

In Thursday’s White House briefing, press secretary Sarah Sanders said that the administration “would like to be part of that conversation” about bump stocks, but that President Trump was a “strong supporter of the Second Amendment, and that hasn’t changed.”

House Speaker Paul Ryan, R-Wis., said Thursday in an interview that bump stocks are “clearly something we need to look into.” Rep. Carlos Curbelo, R-Fla., planned to introduce legislation Thursday that would ban the sale of the devices.

Republican senators John McCain of Arizona, Lindsey Graham of South Carolina and Mike Rounds of South Dakota expressed interest in the issue to reporters.

“I’m going to wait until this report’s out from the police and get all that information,” said Sen. Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, chair of the Judiciary Committee.

However, not all Republicans were in favor of the idea.

“I think people ought to follow their heart, but they ought to take their brain with them,” said Sen. John Kennedy, R-La., in an inter;iew with Yahoo News about his opposition to bump stock changes. “This is not about bump stocks; this is about a longstanding assault against the Second Amendment.”

Liz Goodwin contributed to the reporting of this story.

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Re: Terror Incidents Worldwide

Post by Indrad » Thu Oct 05, 2017 9:00 pm

ISIS have reclaimed LV attack with more details: claiming shooter converted 6 months ago https://twitter.com/rcallimachi/status/ ... 0153129984

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Re: Terror Incidents Worldwide

Post by Gus » Thu Oct 05, 2017 11:30 pm

If ISIS was indeed involved, the shooter would have advertised it in some way or other..and even ISIS would have.

I will remain skeptical until something more concrete comes out..

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Post by Singha » Sat Oct 07, 2017 3:26 pm

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article ... useum.html

jiahdi taxi driver mows down some pedestrians in london, nabbed.

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Re: Terror Incidents Worldwide

Post by Gus » Sat Oct 07, 2017 3:43 pm

Almost a week and still no clue on motive? Very atypical at this scale

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Re: Terror Incidents Worldwide

Post by Singha » Sun Oct 08, 2017 5:41 am

1000 leads have been run down and still no clue as to motive. the mystery deepens. he was a demanding casino client for rooms and foods in exchange for his spending, but otherwise just a unremarkable privacy guy (most goras are anyways a bit hung up on privacy thing) . no past criminal record. a traffic citation or two. routine profile. not in any database.

agencies must be scratching their heads. his brother was hoping the autopsy will find some illness or tumor that drove him nuts.

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Re: Terror Incidents Worldwide

Post by Raju » Sun Oct 08, 2017 6:12 am

what if his room was used by the real perpetrators and they shot him dead in the end ??

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Post by Singha » Sun Oct 08, 2017 6:22 am

he would then atleast have to be a accomplice. with cctv footage surely grabbed by agencies, the truth will come out if its convenient for the powers that be.

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Post by Singha » Sun Oct 08, 2017 7:54 am

btw a CT doing rounds of web is that he was a honeypot and frontman for one of the agencies , selling arms on black market to ISIS buyers from the philippines or their local shipping agent( all of who would later be arrested ) . some deal went wrong and the buyers then burned him and the agency both with the massacre.

one of 100s of CT I am sure.

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Re: Terror Incidents Worldwide

Post by saip » Sun Oct 08, 2017 10:12 pm

DNA, fingerprints,hair etc not belonging to him would have been found if there were others. So no others present. He was buying firearms periodically over the years and most of them still with him. So Not a seller.

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Post by Shandilya » Tue Oct 10, 2017 12:17 am

Today they changed the timeline of events, now its said he shot the security guard first and then focused on concert below. Still questioning the GHQ.

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Re: Terror Incidents Worldwide

Post by Zynda » Sat Oct 14, 2017 4:23 pm

Apparently, this piece of news never made in to US MSM cycle. A blackout by US MSM!

The 2nd part goes in to attacking Trump for no comments from him solely based on the race of the perp.

THE AIRPORT BOMBER FROM LAST WEEK YOU NEVER HEARD ABOUT
IT’S STRANGE HOW some things really catch on and go viral and others don’t. These days, nothing quite makes a story blow up — no pun intended — like the president’s fixation with it. That’s why it’s so peculiar that what sure looks like an attempted terrorist attack was narrowly thwarted at an American airport this past Friday without so much as a peep from Donald Trump about it. No tweets. No nicknames for the alleged would-be-terrorist. Nothing. You’ll see why in a minute.

This past Friday morning, at 12:39 a.m., security footage from the Asheville Regional Airport in North Carolina showed a man walking through the front doors wearing black clothing and a black cap, while carrying a bag. “Based on a review of the video, the individual walked near the entrance to the terminal, went out of sight momentarily, and was then seen departing the area without the bag,” according to the criminal complaint.

Following the Transportation Security Administration’s protocols, airport security allowed a bomb dog to sniff the bag for explosives and the dog signaled to the team the presence of dangerous materials in the bag. The concourse was then shut down. The street leading to the airport was shut down. And Asheville Regional Airport officials found themselves in a dangerous emergency situation.

What investigators eventually found in the bag was AN/FO (Ammonium Nitrate/Fuel Oil) explosives that, according to the criminal complaint, have been used “in a number of terrorist-related incidents around the world. When AN/FO comes into contact with a flame or other ignition source it explodes violently. Nails or ball bearings are often items added to the device so as to increase the devastation inflicted by the explosion.”

n fact, sharp nails and bullets were found in this improvised explosive device. Whoever built it designed the bomb to cause horrific bodily harm. Before disarming it, authorities discovered that the alarm attached to it was scheduled to go off at 6:00 a.m. that morning just as a fresh round of travelers was scheduled to arrive at the airport.

The man who planted it, it turns out, openly admitted to authorities that he was “preparing to fight a war on U.S. soil” and that this bomb was but one part of that war.

Little Fanfare

I bet you never heard about it. I keep an eye on these types of incidents closely and I didn’t hear about it. Someone who follows me online who happens to live in Asheville sent me the story this morning — shocked that it hadn’t gotten any play at all beyond a few mentions in the local paper and some isolated pickup by a few national outlets.

As soon as I clicked on the article, it all made perfect sense.

The story didn’t go viral and Trump didn’t tweet about it because the bomb was not placed by an immigrant, or a Muslim, or a Mexican. It was placed there by a good ol’ white man, Michael Christopher Estes. Unlike the Las Vegas shooter, Stephen Paddock, whose motive is still hard to discern, Estes wanted to be very clear that his ultimate goal was to accelerate a war on American soil.

A Muslim attacker’s mugshot would become a meme across the conservative media. Mainstream American outlets would be covering the heroic bravery of those who thwarted the terrorist plot. We’d all be seeing footage of the perpetrator being walked from the police car to the jail and from the jail to the court room. Out loud, people would talk and tweet about the man’s family and friends and networks — wondering where he was radicalized, and if anyone else feels the way he does.

In this case, though? Crickets. We hear nothing at all — almost exclusively because the man who planted an improvised explosive device, just like ones that have been used to murder and maim people all over the world, was white. His guilt starts and stops with him. His actions aren’t an indictment of his whole faith, political outlook, and race. White people aren’t, thanks to Estes, suddenly labeled terrorists or seen as a threat to American safety in the way that would almost certainly happen had it been anybody other than a white man.

This isn’t me calling for all of those things that happen to Muslims and immigrants every single day to now happen to Estes and white people all over the country. It’s me saying that the fundamentally bigoted double standard by which it is done to virtually everyone except for Michael Christopher Estes and other white men has to stop.

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Re: Terror Incidents Worldwide

Post by Gus » Wed Oct 18, 2017 1:23 am

Still no progress on the Vegas shooting?

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Re: Terror Incidents Worldwide

Post by Primus » Tue Oct 31, 2017 9:58 pm

Fkucers are at it again :twisted:

Lone muslim terrorist kills 8 and injures 11 in downtown New York on the lower West side. Saifullo Saipov, 29 yr old, drives a Home Depot rental truck into pedestrians and bicyclists then rams it into a school bus. I am so effing mad! This is blocks from my niece's workplace and my daughter lives not far from there.

He then gets out of his truck, shouting AOA waving two handguns (which turn out to be pellet and paintball gun) before being shot by police, he is now in local hospital with gunshot wounds to his abdomen. Video of the shooter shows him to be a bearded dude. Clearly an ISIS inspired mofo.

NYC marathon is this Sunday.

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Re: Terror Incidents Worldwide

Post by Kabir » Wed Nov 01, 2017 2:34 am

Primus wrote:
Tue Oct 31, 2017 9:58 pm
Fkucers are at it again :twisted:

Lone muslim terrorist kills 8 and injures 11 in downtown New York on the lower West side. Saifullo Saipov, 29 yr old, drives a Home Depot rental truck into pedestrians and bicyclists then rams it into a school bus. I am so effing mad! This is blocks from my niece's workplace and my daughter lives not far from there.

He then gets out of his truck, shouting AOA waving two handguns (which turn out to be pellet and paintball gun) before being shot by police, he is now in local hospital with gunshot wounds to his abdomen. Video of the shooter shows him to be a bearded dude. Clearly an ISIS inspired mofo.

NYC marathon is this Sunday.
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These attacks are BAU now. Some one mentioned it in office this morning and everyone else was - mmm ok. meh back to work

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Re: Terror Incidents Worldwide

Post by Singha » Wed Nov 01, 2017 2:50 am

well the foreign policy establishment across bipartisan lines in DC has been rebadging AQ and ISIS types into "freedom fighters" in places like syria and libya and letting them loose on regime change missions. these fellows form the support ecosystem for those who want to move into EU/US and target.

things are so bad in libya that egyptian airforce has been working full time to prop up the faction allied to it and targeting ISIS hordes from the air, using american supplied F-solah and apaches!

name any dubious game and the US has got its fingers into every side of it.

http://abcnews.go.com/International/wir ... s-50833386

the US cannot live with govts that are unfriendly to it, but not actively pursuing terror against it like qadhafi, saddam, iran or assad. everything follows from there... it also is influenced by israeli security needs to keep the arabi pot boiling and off balance. the saudis also pay their way in and get what they want. even UK gets what it usually wants.

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Post by Primus » Wed Nov 01, 2017 11:16 am

Singha wrote:
Wed Nov 01, 2017 2:50 am
well the foreign policy establishment across bipartisan lines in DC has been rebadging AQ and ISIS types into "freedom fighters" in places like syria and libya and letting them loose on regime change missions. these fellows form the support ecosystem for those who want to move into EU/US and target.

things are so bad in libya that egyptian airforce has been working full time to prop up the faction allied to it and targeting ISIS hordes from the air, using american supplied F-solah and apaches!

name any dubious game and the US has got its fingers into every side of it.

http://abcnews.go.com/International/wir ... s-50833386

the US cannot live with govts that are unfriendly to it, but not actively pursuing terror against it like qadhafi, saddam, iran or assad. everything follows from there... it also is influenced by israeli security needs to keep the arabi pot boiling and off balance. the saudis also pay their way in and get what they want. even UK gets what it usually wants.
Absolutely. And that is what I tell my American colleagues and friends is the problem, but they are (nowadays) so focused on the anti-Trump rhetoric that every muslim begins to look like an innocent victim to them.

When a terror incident strikes your home and threatens the lives of those you love your reaction to it is different from when it happens far away. Thus when a car/van kills pedestrians on a street in London you are horrified but emotionally uninvolved. When the same happens where YOU live, it is like a punch in the gut. Hard to explain unless you've felt it.

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