Posted by Guessedworker on Fri, 15 Jul 2016 10:22 | #

The death toll now stands at 84, among them many children - at least 10 of these babies in buggies.  A further 54 children are among the injured.  50 of the victims who survived the immediate attack are described by Hollande as “hovering between life and death”.

The liberati, meanwhile, are already on the case.  Simon Jenkins at the Guardian has lectured us all that the limit to our reaction must be only to show sympathy for the bereaved.  Anything else would just do more harm, apparently.  Jo Cox’s husband Brendan has tweeted: “Jo wld ask us not 2 fight hate with hate but draw together 2 drain the swamp that extremism breeds in. Thinking of all victims of hatred 2day.”

Posted by Nice aftermath on Sat, 16 Jul 2016 07:20 | #

Video of victims in aftermath of Nice massacre

Posted by Nice killer researched Orlando on Tue, 19 Jul 2016 01:24 | #

Nice terror killer Mohamed Lahouaiej Bouhlel researched Orlando gay club massacre before carrying out truck attack

Orlando gay club massacre

Posted by Barcelona terror attack: 13 dead on Thu, 17 Aug 2017 18:47 | #

Telegraph, “Barcelona terror attack: van crashes into crowd at La Rambla, killing ‘at least 13”, 17 Aug 2017:

Terror in Barcelona as van hits crowd in Las Ramblas

Driver arrested after escaping scene on foot

Spanish media reports 13 people killed

A white van plowed into a packed summer crowd this evening in Barcelona’s historic Las Ramblas district. Barcelona police called it a terror attack and local media reported 13 dead and dozens more injured.

The driver was arrested around two and a half hours after the attack, reports said.

The vehicle hit pedestrians in Las Ramblas, a busy tree-lined promenade in the centre of the city.

Catalan police tweeted “there are mortal victims and injured from the crash” without specifying any numbers. Spanish media, including Cadena SER radio station and TV3, reported up to 13 dead, while other media had varying death tolls.

The street is one of the most well-known and popular parts of the city, visited by tourists and locals alike.

Images posted on social media appear to show people being tended to as they lay on the street.

Reports said the driver escaped the scene on foot and was holed up in a bar in Tallers Street. Armed police ran down the streets and through a market, checking in stores and cafes.

In photographs and videos, at least five people could be seen lying on the ground in the streets of the northern Spanish city on Thursday afternoon, being helped by police and others. Other video recorded people screaming as they fled the van.

Posted by Police kill five suspects in Cambrils raid on Fri, 18 Aug 2017 03:00 | #

Guardian, “Barcelona attack: police kill five suspects in Cambrils terror raid – latest updates”, 18 Aug 2017:

What happened in Cambrils before police shot and killed five terror suspects is still unclear.”

Officials have given little information beyond the fact that the five alleged perpetrators were killed; and that six bystanders were injured along with one police officer. The officer is lightly hurt, but one of the six is critically ill and another seriously wounded.

Other reports from the scene – as yet not confirmed – suggest some of the suspects drove a car, possibly an Audi, at pedestrians, causing the injuries.

The location of bodies pictured at the scene suggest the suspects were not in the car when they were shot by police.

There are also unverified reports that the suspects were wearing explosive belts. Police said a specialist bomb disposal team was investigating this.

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Some images from Cambrils show police officers inspecting a car in the town, after five suspects were shot.

Spanish media reports have said a vehicle might have been used to run down bystanders in the town. Police have said six people were injured but have given no further details.

Posted by Driss Oubakir on Fri, 18 Aug 2017 03:17 | #

 
  Driss Oubakir rented the van

Posted by Isil claims responsibility for Barcelona attack on Fri, 18 Aug 2017 07:24 | #

Vice News, “ISIS claims responsibility for deadly Barcelona van attack”, 17 Aug 2017:

A speeding white Fiat van plowed into pedestrians walking down Barcelona’s popular La Rambla boulevard Thursday, killing at least 13 and injuring more than 100, in what Catalan police are calling a terror attack.
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The Islamic State group, through its media arm Amaq news agency, claimed credit for the deadly attack.

Police arrested two suspects in connection with the attack, identifying one as Driss Oukabir, a Moroccan man in his late 20s and another, still unnamed, as a Spanish national from Melilla. Oukabir reportedly rented the van from the town of Santa Perpetua de la Mogada, just north of the city. Neither of the two men arrested were driving the van, according to a senior police official. Police are actively searching for the driver.

The van mowed down dozens of people driving for about 500m before the suspects fled on foot, according to local media. Police say it was an attack “intended to kill as many people as possible.” The Spanish newspaper El Pais, quoting unnamed police sources, reported the perpetrators of the crash were holed up in a bar on Tallers Street, near Las Ramblas. Police said rumors circulating on local media that a hostage situation had unfolded after the crash were unfounded.

Catalonia’s Interior Minister Joaquim Forn confirmed that 13 people were dead, and more than 100 wounded.

  “It looked like something out of a film, guts and flesh.”

Officials initially described the incident as a “massive crash” and emergency services warned people to stay away from the area, closing metro and train stations in the general vicinity.

Eyewitnesses described the unfolding chaos as the reality of a terror attack set in.

“It looked like something out of a film — guts and flesh,” Alec Rugo, an American vacationing in Barcelona, told VICE News.

“It was really crazy. I didn’t know it was happening on the Ramblas,” said vacationer Moran Keren. “I saw some lady that I think was dying. It was crazy. A lot of people injured.”

Spanish Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy said he is in contact with the authorities and that the priority for now was to attend to the wounded. Barcelona’s mayor said she was suspending her vacation to attend to the emergency.

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In the last 12 months across Europe, there have been multiple incidents where vehicles have been driven into crowds of people, killing well over 100 people in Nice, Berlin, London, and Stockholm combined.

Posted by Marseille attacker released day before stabbings on Mon, 02 Oct 2017 17:45 | #

The Local, “Marseille attacker released by police day before stabbing rampage”, 2 Oct 2017:

The man who stabbed two young women to death in Marseille in an attack claimed by the Islamic State group used seven different identities and had been arrested just days earlier, French prosecutors said Monday.

Tragic: The two victims of the Marseille knife attack were identified by their first names as cousins and best friends Mauranne (left) and Laura (right), both 20

The man who stabbed two young women to death in Marseille in an attack claimed by the Islamic State group used seven different identities and had been arrested just days earlier, French prosecutors said Monday.

Authorities said the man, who was shot dead by anti-terror troops after Sunday’s attack outside the southern city’s main train station, had previously used a Tunisian passport under the name Ahmed H., 29.

But investigators are seeking to confirm his identity as the attacker—who had a history of petty crime but was not on a jihadist watch list—used seven aliases, anti-terror prosecutor Francois Molins told reporters.

“The method of the attacker, a knife attack at a train station, responded to a permanent call from the terrorist group Daesh,” Molins said, using another name for IS.

The jihadist group’s propaganda agency Amaq claimed the killer was one of its “soldiers”, while a source close to the investigation told AFP no solid evidence linked him to IS.

The attack in France’s second biggest city followed a string of stabbings around Europe claimed by or blamed on Islamist radicals.

The man killed two 20-year-old cousins from the eastern city of Lyon. One was studying in Marseille and the other was visiting her for the weekend.

Molins confirmed that witnesses heard the attacker shout “Allahu Akbar” (God is Greatest) as he lunged at the women with a 20-centimetre (eight-inch) knife before threatening soldiers, who shot him dead.

The attacker’s fingerprints showed he had had seven brushes with the law since 2005—most recently when he was arrested last week in Lyon.

He presented the Tunisian passport to police, saying he was divorced, used “hard drugs”, and had no fixed address.

The shoplifting charges were dropped for lack of evidence, and local authorities “were not able to take a decision to deport him,” Molins added. He was released on Saturday.

‘Barbaric act’

Police evacuated Marseille’s ornate Saint Charles station after the attack, temporarily halting all train traffic on some of France’s busiest lines.

“I was on the esplanade just in front of the station,” Melanie Petit, an 18-year-old student, told AFP. “I heard someone shout ‘Allahu Akbar’ and I saw a man who seemed to be dressed all in black.”

French President Emmanuel Macron tweeted Sunday that he was “deeply angered by this barbaric act”.

The attack comes as parliament prepares Tuesday to vote on a controversial anti-terror bill that transfers some of the exceptional powers granted to police under a 22-month-old state of emergency into national law.

France has been under a state of emergency since the IS gun and bomb attacks in Paris in November 2015—part of a string of jihadist assaults that have left more than 240 people dead over the past two years.

But rights groups warn that making parts of the state of emergency permanent would give police too much free rein in handling terrorism suspects.

Knives have been the weapon of choice in a string of smaller-scale attacks, in recent months, mainly targeting troops from the 7,000-strong Sentinelle anti-terror force set up to patrol the streets and vulnerable sites such as stations and tourist attractions.

In most cases, the attackers were shot dead at the start of their rampage, before they could kill others.

The Marseille attack came only days after IS released a recording of what it said was its leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi urging his followers to strike their enemies in the West.

The French government has deployed troops and its air force to the Middle East and is a leading partner in the US-led international coalition fighting IS in Iraq and Syria.

DM: The man, who was aged between 30 and 35, has not been formally identified.

On Friday the attacker – who was a North African of either Algerian or Tunisian origin – was arrested in Lyon for shoplifting.

He had no papers on him and was in ‘an irregular situation in Europe’, so giving the authorities a chance to place him under judicial control.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4939960/Marseilles-attacker-killed-two-illegal-immigrant.html

Posted by Uzbek in New York on Wed, 01 Nov 2017 12:17 | #

Washington Post, “New York attack probe expands to Uzbekistan as possible militant links explored”, 1 Nov 2017:

NEW YORK — Investigators in Uzbekistan combed records and intelligence reports on militant factions in the Central Asian nation Wednesday seeking to fill out the portrait of the 29-year-old immigrant who brought Halloween death and bloodshed to a Manhattan bike path.

The Uzbek probe came as U.S. officials also dug deeper into the life of the suspect, identified as Sayfullo Saipov, since he arrived in the United States six years ago and shifted from New Jersey to Ohio and Florida. Saipov was wounded by police as they surrounded the rented flatbed truck Tuesday after it mowed through cyclists and others on the popular bike route overlooking the Hudson River.

At least eight people were killed and 11 were injured along a path of strewn bodies and castoff items — purses, backpacks, shoes — similar to scenes in other attacks in Berlin, London, Barcelona and elsewhere where vehicles have been used as tools of terrorism. Five Argentines and a Belgian were among the victims in New York.

According to a video from the scene, the attacker jumped out of the wrecked vehicle brandishing what appeared to be handguns. Some witnesses said he shouted “Allahu akbar,’’ meaning “God is great’’ in Arabic. Inside the rental truck, investigators found a handwritten note in which Saipov had declared his allegiance to the Islamic State, according to officials.

Posted by Following the Islamic playbook on Wed, 01 Nov 2017 17:39 | #

MSNBC, “New York Terrorist Attack: Driver Had Been Planning Carnage ‘For Weeks”, 1 Nov 2017:

The motorist who turned a rented pickup truck into a killing machine had been planning the deadly attack on lower Manhattan for weeks and was following the Islamic State playbook “to a T,” the New York City police department’s top anti-terrorism official said Wednesday.

“He did this in the name of ISIS,” John Miller, the NYPD deputy commissioner for intelligence, said at a briefing. “He seems to have followed the regimen prescribed.”

Miller said they reached this conclusion after questioning suspect Sayfullo Habibullaevic Saipov at Bellevue Hospital and recovering a note written in Arabic from the pickup that revealed his allegiance to ISIS.

NBC reported earlier the note found in the pickup Saipov rented from a Home Depot in Passaic, N.J. said “ISIS Lives Forever.”

“It appears he had been planning this for a number of weeks,” Miller said. “He appears to have followed, almost exactly to a “T” the ISIS instructions on “how to carry out an attack.” But officials said there is no indication he was contacted by ISIS.

Miller confirmed that the 29-year-old immigrant from Uzbekistan was not on the NYPD’s or FBI’s radar but they suspect “he will have some connectivity to subjects who were under investigation.”

New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo said earlier that they believe Saipov was a “lone wolf” and not part of some wider plot.

So far, no charges have been filed against Saipov, who came to the U.S. in 2010. He lives in Paterson, N.J., with his wife.

“We are waiting for an update on his condition,” Miller said

Meanwhile, much of lower Manhattan remained an armed camp a day after police said Saipov deliberately drove down a bike path and mowed down several people before crashing into a school bus, killing eight people and injuring a dozen more in the deadliest terror attack in New York City since the 9/11 attacks.

The rampage ended when Saipov, who was armed with a pellet gun and a paint ball gun and had several knives in the vehicle, was shot in the abdomen by NYPD Officer Ryan Nash, 28, who has been on the job for just five years.

“He was a hero,” Cuomo said.

The drama played out on Halloween less than a mile away from the World Trade Center.

Five of the victims were from Argentina, one was from Germany, and two were Americans, officials said.

“We now and forever will consider them New Yorkers,” New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio said. “This violence was an effort to make us blink and we won’t blink.”