From the Daily Mail: “Three suicide bombers have killed up to 50 people and wounded 60 in a ‘major, co-ordinated’ attack at Istanbul’s Ataturk Airport, opening fire with AK-47s and sparking a shoot-out with security personnel before blowing themselves up. Eyewitnesses have told how a hero policeman wrestled a suicide bomber to the ground just seconds before he detonated his explosives at the entrance to the airport’s international arrivals terminal. It is believed the men were trying to pass through the security x-ray machines at the entrance to the airport, the third busiest in Europe, when they were stopped by security officers and carried out their lethal attack.”
It’s not known yet if this will be classified as a man-caused disaster or workplace violence. Watch this space.
Those darn Christians strike again!
No, it’s the Unitarians!
White conservative Christian males!
Obviously those white, Christian, conservative, male NRA members oppressed and marginalized these poor yutes.
Damned Mormons and their suicide underwear!
Hey now, the Mormons are peaceful people. Those Jehovah’s Witnesses, though…
“Peaceful” huh?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Porter_Rockwell
If anyone cares, check out how Mother Jones is covering this story. They make absolutely NO mention of the AK-47’s used in this attack. Why? Because they know damn well those things are already totally illegal there, and it puts a HUGE HOLE in their anti-gun rhetoric.
It was Istanbul, not Constantinople
Now it’s Istanbul, not Constantinople
Been a long time gone, Constantinople
Now it’s Turkish delight on a moonlit night
every gal in Constantinople
lives in Istanbul, not Constantinople
so if you’ve a date in Constantinople
she’ll be waiting in Istanbul
Man, I have that song running through my head on loop now. I really like the original version from the ’50s.
Even Old New York was once New Amsterdam…
I’m ready for it to be New Amsterdam again.
Minus NYC, of course…
Why they changed it, I can’t say.
People just liked it better that waaaaaaaay!
What? Clearly this was the doing of the SBA, Suicide Bombing Association. If it weren’t for them, we could have common sense bomb control laws passed.
Amish and Quakers, incited by that darned NRA, are at it again!!! DMD
If you watch the video, it’s another example of a cop turning a victory into a defeat.
The terrorist is shot. He’s on the ground but still moving. He’s reaching into his jacket. But instead of continuing to fire and ending the attack there, the cop (I assume it was the cop standing next to him), runs away giving the terrorist the time to set off his bomb.
He should have used the Israeli method of combating suicide bombers.
Damn straight. Ever heard of the Vermilion Zone?
*sigh* oh those Methodists…
I’m telling my congregation on you next time I see them… sometime around Christmas…
Paris, Orlando, now this? How many acts of war do we need for us to realize we are at war!?
Not acts of war. Acts of Congress. That is to say, only Congress can declare war.
When was the last time Congress declared war?
This is my surprised face.
Acts of War have nothing to do with a declaration of war. A declaration of war is the declaration of a legal state. An act of war is an activity. Pearl Harbor was an act of war. The Japanese never actually delivered a declaration. The message delivered to the SECSTATE was a notice of the breaking off of diplomatic relations.
Most people continue to give credence to the trope that Islam is “a religion of peace.” People continue to be willfully and deliberately ignorant of what Islam states as a requirement of the observant Muslim.
What is even more ignorant on the part of westerners are these calls for a “reformation” within Islam. Most of the people calling for such a “reformation” are Jewish or Catholic, and are ignorant of what the Reformation was based upon. One of the central issues in the Reformation as proposed by Luther was the idea of sola scriptura, which means that the Christian religion should be based on the text in the Bible. In some Protestant denominations, this is explained as “scripture supersedes tradition or interpretation…”
Well, if we apply the idea of sola scriptura to Islam, we quickly arrive at a point where ISIS is the gold standard of Islam, because they hew to a literal, textual reading of the Quran, Hadiths and Sira.
Meh… Wogs killing wogs… I just wish the “religion of peace” would keep their BS to their own third world hellholes. But no, Turkey should DEFINITELY be allowed into the EU. /sarc
That’s it… I am tearing up my NRA card…. /sarcasm
AK-47?? I thought only ARs committed these acts of violence?
AKs do too… But only the parts that are black metal. The wood bits are the “good” bits.
Man caused disaster ?
Nice, have not heard that one used yet – today.
Any euphemism is better than telling what it actually is.
It was the Republicans fault!
Clearly more background checks are required
Ban guns!
…suicide vests are fine though. Nothing to talk about there…
Clearly the infamous suicide-vest loophole was at play here.
Ban airports!
Nobody on the “no fly” list should be able to buy a suicide vest!
GFers killing GFers. Why is this news?
They hit the international airport, so I think they were going for a more diverse victim type.
POTUS said attacks like these don’t happen in other countries. Nothing to see here. Move along.
My first thought exactly. This can’t possibly be happening because imperious leader said these things only happen in America.
The sarcasm is biting today, but yes, I am sure “ass salt” weapons will be mentioned by our good old friend Barry, and then the continuing call for gun control will spread out over the airwaves and television screens of the world like digital vomit.
It’s too bad this happened, few deserve this treatment, and there are never any answers for this carnage, except you know, guns. /sarcasm warning —- WARNING SARCASM
Someone’s getting a invite to the whitehouse….oops…..all blown up!
Damn!
Suicide vest = virgin facilitator
So, ban the guns or the bombs?
The Australian Greens have announced that tighter gun laws in Australia would have stopped this terrorist attack from happening, and it is all the fault of the NRA.
(sarcasm = off) but I imagine something like this would be released soon. There is a Federal election in Australia this weekend and all political parties are now on their 3-day media blackout immediately prior to the election. This has allowed Gun Control Australia to release a statement about the “rapid fire” Adler lever-action shotgun and the Shooters Party cannot respond until after the election.
Interstingly looking it up even though there is no registration you have to have regulatory approval and a mental/physical check up before you can own a gun in Turkey.
From what I’ve heard, in Turkey you can own pistols and shotguns without too much trouble but rifles are another matter.
How is this news? Turkey bombsISIS,Kurds and killed 1500000 Armenians 100 years ago. Lotta’ folks are mad at ’em…don’t forget Israel who they used to sorta’ be allies with. And do I still buy that Turkish shottie I’ve had my eye on?
Clearly they need more Anti-Suicide Vest laws over there.
More Suicide-Vest Free Zones!
Suicide bombers isn’t the problem here – its the AK47s. They need more gun control. Nobody needs to be walking around with guns in public spaces.
Yeah, that worked real well in France huh?
I think Anonymous was being sarcastic.
If Barry had a son…..
“the men were trying to pass through the security x-ray machines at the entrance to the airport, the third busiest in Europe”
Great reporting — Istanbul, Turkey is in Asia.
MSM nitwits can’t even get the continent right.
Well, they no longer have to study history or geography to get a humanities or liberal arts degree these days, Ralph. They can “pick and choose” a bunch of courses even more useless than basket weaving to make up 120 credit hours.
Then they go to J-school, where they get lobotomized as part of their graduate degree requirement…
It’s in BOTH Ralph:)
Seems the airport is located on the western, thus European, side of the Bosporus, so the statement is factually correct. However, everyone knows Istanbul aka Constantinople is the traditional European/Asian crossroads, and frankly I doubt the MSM knows the context either way.
Tom
You’re not fooling me, TTAG- this is obviously a hoax, since terrorists aren’t allowed to buy assault rifles in Turkey.
But but but, these types of shootings don’t happen in other countries! I know because Obama said so.
Islam is a religion of peace. If you don’t convert, there will be a piece of you here, a piece of you there, another piece way over that way…
Peace vs piece, that there was funny!
It’s not known yet if this will be classified as a man-caused disaster or workplace violence. Watch this space.
Global Warming caused by coal power plants along the Ohio River. Indiana is at it again!
IT WASN’T TERRORISM! I SWEAR!
O crap I was just there less than a month ago.
“Missed me by T-H-A-T much!” – Maxwell Smart
I was there 2 weeks ago and fly through that airport several times a year. Nice airport, great lounges and has more of European feel than a Middle-East vibe.
What I want to know is, were these guys on the no fly list?
And shouldn’t this be called a “Mass Bombing”?
Turkey buys their oil from Isis and they have been funneling all the Muslims into Europe. I’m having a hard time feeling too sad for them.
We definitely need more Bomb Control Laws… What are we waiting for to ban this weapons of war??
Update from RT: 41 Dead, 239 Injured
Was in that airport about 20 years ago. I don’t remember uniformed “soldiers” with AK47’s and HK91’s being at the airport but they were everywhere else we went in Turkey. With all the recent bombings and other attacks in that country, hard to believe these jack wagons were able to pull this off. These f#ckers need to exterminated to the point they are just a footnote in the history books.
My babies wernt doin nuffin dem racyst turkey 5ohs just came in and shot dem fer no reason. Dey blowed dem up and everyfang. They was jest fixin to take a flight to get der lives back togedder. Dey even shot der dogs fer no reason. Somebody should burn a Turkish drug store down
Open borders right?
All humans have a right to travel anywhere right?
It’s all just security theater. A waist of time right?
Trump is a racist because he wants to ban all Muslims from coming here right?
Our real problem is white Christian conservatives who have sex in the missionary position with the lights off.
Right?
It’s pay day. Time to buy more ammunition.
Fully expecting Obama to come on TV today and blame the NRA and Americans’ easy access to guns, and also conspicuously avoid mentioning radical islam.
Ban bombs. FOR THE CHILDREN!
Muslims killing Muslims. Where’s the news in that?
But I must say, where’s the suicide vest control laws that would have prevented this? Oh . . . wait, you mean they ARE illegal? Wow, how could this happen then?
Ban vest and underwear.