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28 Dead As Explosions Rock Istanbul Airport
Sky News ^ | 06-28-2016 | Staff

Posted on 06/28/2016 2:15:16 PM PDT by Red Badger

Two suicide bombers open fire before detonating their explosives at Turkey's biggest airport.

At least 28 people have been killed and 60 wounded in twin explosions at the main airport in Istanbul, the city's govenor has said.

Two attackers opened fire before blowing themselves up at the entrance to Istanbul Ataturk Airport's international terminal, an official said, citing information from the interior ministry.

Police fired shots to try to stop the attackers but they detonated their explosives, the official said.

A witness told NBC News that he saw a police officer diving to tackle one of the attackers - who then detonated his bomb.

(Excerpt) Read more at news.sky.com ...


TOPICS: Breaking News; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: airport; airportsecurity; ataturk; ataturkairport; ist; istanbul; istanbulairport; muslims; muslimworld; suicidebombers; terrorism; turkey; turkish
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1 posted on 06/28/2016 2:15:17 PM PDT by Red Badger
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And how strict are the gun control laws in Turkey again?


2 posted on 06/28/2016 2:16:52 PM PDT by cld51860 (Volo pro veritas)
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To: Red Badger

It’s not yet clear what their motives were. Probably just mentally ill.


3 posted on 06/28/2016 2:16:57 PM PDT by Maceman
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Moslems.


4 posted on 06/28/2016 2:17:16 PM PDT by who knows what evil? (Yehovah saved more animals than people on the ark...www.siameserescue.com)
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To: Red Badger

An Erdogan “Reichstag Fire.”


5 posted on 06/28/2016 2:17:25 PM PDT by dfwgator
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To: Maceman

Workplace violence.


6 posted on 06/28/2016 2:18:07 PM PDT by LydiaLong
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To: Maceman

I’m not interesting in motives. The methods are what ISIS advocates. That means they’re inspired by ISIS lunacy.


7 posted on 06/28/2016 2:19:36 PM PDT by grania
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To: Red Badger

ISIS or Kurds?

Kurds don’t do suicide bombings...


8 posted on 06/28/2016 2:19:54 PM PDT by 2banana (My common ground with terrorists - they want to die for islam and we want to kill them)
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To: Red Badger

Too bad Turkey doesn’t have a stable neighbor with no civil war.

Obama stooge Ambassador says it was probably the Kurds


9 posted on 06/28/2016 2:19:58 PM PDT by Donglalinger
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To: Red Badger

Probably too many homosexuals in the airport.


10 posted on 06/28/2016 2:20:10 PM PDT by thesharkboy (posting without reading the article since 1998)
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To: Red Badger

All you need is love.


11 posted on 06/28/2016 2:20:35 PM PDT by RAldrich
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A witness told NBC News that he saw a police officer diving to tackle one of the attackers - who then detonated his bomb...

prayers up for that hero - whoever he was.

12 posted on 06/28/2016 2:20:50 PM PDT by jimjohn
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To: Maceman

Self-radicalized homegrown lone wolves.


13 posted on 06/28/2016 2:20:51 PM PDT by Cboldt
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To: Red Badger

Does anyone have any idea why they did this? This is a real head scratcher.


14 posted on 06/28/2016 2:21:52 PM PDT by DesertRhino (Dogs are man's best friend, and moslems hate dogs. Add that the state deportmentthat up....)
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To: Maceman

Hate crime.


15 posted on 06/28/2016 2:22:22 PM PDT by jazminerose (oective)
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To: Red Badger

Workplace violence caused by latent homosexuals with a gun fetish?


16 posted on 06/28/2016 2:22:34 PM PDT by Jay Redhawk (Diversity for the sake of diversity is just flat out stupidity.)
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To: Red Badger

Imagine the total drop in strife and death without muslims.


17 posted on 06/28/2016 2:22:42 PM PDT by umgud (ban muslims, not guns)
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To: cld51860
-- And how strict are the gun control laws in Turkey again? --

From the little bit of research I just did onliunbe, I'd say "not very restrictive." Registration required, but purchase and carry are not as restrictive as in say, Chicago, NYC, NJ, or California.

18 posted on 06/28/2016 2:25:14 PM PDT by Cboldt
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To: DesertRhino

Terrorists are about disruption for the purpose of political change. I would not hunt for any immediate event as being a motive. Other than the fact that this location, the airport, is pretty “westernized.”


19 posted on 06/28/2016 2:28:15 PM PDT by Cboldt
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To: Red Badger

“There is no radical Islam, there is only Islam”. ~ Erdogan, Ayatollah of Istanbul


20 posted on 06/28/2016 2:37:32 PM PDT by Sirius Lee (If Trump loses, America dies)
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