Posted on 06/29/2016 5:45:24 PM PDT by Starman417
Today terrorists attacked Attaturk airport in Istanbul, Turkey, at last count leaving 28 dead and at least 60 injured:
-- At least 28 people have been killed and 60 others wounded in the attack on Istanbul Ataturk Airport in Turkey, Istanbul Gov. Vasip Sahin told Turkey's state-run news agency TRT. It is unclear if the total includes the bombers. Another report, from semi-official news agency Anadolu, said six of the wounded are in critical condition. A total of 49 ambulances were sent to the site.
-- Turkey's Justice Minister Bekir Bozdag earlier said at least 10 people were killed and 20 others injured. The suicide bombers were also killed. Bozdag said one attacker "first opened fire with a Kalashnikov then detonated himself" at the airport entrance.
-- In total three bombs exploded, the governor told TRT.
--One of them was located just outside a terminal on the pavement, while the other was at the security gate at the entrance to the airport, Bozdag told CNN.
-- Authorities said no bombs exploded within airport buildings, according to the minister.
-- A video posted to Twitter shows a view from a camera inside an airport terminal. A few dozen people are walking around when a bright flash and fireball erupt in the background.
-- A Turkish official told CNN that police fired shots at suspects near the international terminal in an effort to neutralize them.
-- Videos posted on social media show travelers sitting on the airport floor. A man shouts, "Get down! Get down!" Someone cries as a gunshot rings out.
As I write, the estimated death toll is now 50.
It remains to be seen how the Turkish government will respond but it's pretty likely they won't take the Obama route and blame "lone wolf" bad actors. They won't likely blame their own people as did Obama. I'll wager big money that they don't say that the best response to the attack will be love and compassion as did our idiot Attorney General. It's unlikely that Turkish President Erdogan will fight and thought of linking the attack to ISIS. But one thing from the Benghazi report positively leaps off the page- if we are attacked again while Obama is President, we are totally f**ked.
There was no rescue attempt for those under attack in Benghazi, but it wasn't for lack of assets. The problem was that those assets were being utterly mismanaged. It's hard to overestimate the stupidity:
“At the end of the day, no military assets were ever moving toward Benghazi,” she said. “But for the bravery of a few Americans and the unexpected response of Qaddafi’s underground militia … there would have been an even greater loss of life that night.”Political correctness trumped the safety and well being of US personnel:The report, more broadly, described a disconnect between the “bureaucratic” response at upper levels and in Washington, and the urgent response on the ground that night.
The report said despite orders from President Obama and then-Defense Secretary Leon Panetta to deploy, the first military force did not do so until more than 13 hours after the attack started.
The report said one anti-terrorism security team known as the FAST unit sat waiting for three hours in Rota, Spain, as Marines changed “in and out of their uniforms four times,” and even debated whether they should carry personal weapons, according to one witness. All together, the report said, “it would take nearly 18 hours” for that team to move.
In the end, U.S. Ambassador Christopher Stevens and three other Americans -- foreign service officer Sean Smith and former Navy Seals Ty Woods and Glen Doherty -- were killed in the attacks.
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Obama the undocumented destroy of generations of Americans
has brought in Ebola, EV-D68 and incurable tuberculosis
and QUARTERED them in every school.
Obama does not need al Qaeda to murder Americans.
He has Ryan funding his ongoing Islamic murders, rapes,
slavery and beheadings, NOW.
We were attacked a number of times while Obama was president. Oh yeah, and the obligatory “we were attacked when Bush was president too!!!” Hrumpf! Hrumpf!
Why do I find it difficult to believe that ValJar said “go”?
Death to Americans!
all it takes is one car headed for an airport, then who will Hillary blame?
Yeah what about that airhead Lynch? She thinks all we have to do is hold hands and ‘love’ the terrorists.
Most of us could have told you that long before Benghazi.
If?
In all the well deserved blame being placed on Hillary for her role in the Benghazi tragedy, people need to be reminded that Obama is ultimately to blame. It’s pretty pathetic, the pass that this POS gets for his incompetence and worse. Suddenly, because we have a black president, the left wants us to believe that presidents should not be held accountable for their actions, or inactions. According to them, we should look everywhere but the top, when determining blame.
Lots of civilians with the hearts of Navy Seals even if they don’t have the keen abilities.....
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