Posted on 01/01/2017 7:34:25 AM PST by fella
gunman reportedly dressed in a Santa costume killed at least 39 people, including 16 foreigners, at a famous nightclub in Istanbul during New Year's Eve celebrations.
Armed with a long-barrelled weapon, the attacker shot a police officer before storming the elite Reina club in the Ortakoy area of the city at about 1.45am.
The Israeli foreign ministry says an Israeli woman is among those who were killed. She was named as Leanne Nasser, 19. She was reportedly in the club with three friend
(Excerpt) Read more at telegraph.co.uk ...
This was obviously an attack by to of Turkey’s two most notorious extremist factions - the Turkish Boy Scouts and Turkish Chamber of Commerce.
The guy who yelled Allahu Akbar, maybe?
A nightclub filled with partying, unprotected foreigners in a Muslim country led by a man hostile to the west on New Year’s Eve. What could go wrong?
To paraphrase Bashir al assad: “terrorism is not a card you can play and then put back in your pocket. It stings like a scorpion”
Erdogan curried favor with the Saudis Qataris obama and the CIA by backing ISIS terror against Syria that has spread all over the world
Now the Turks are trying to curry favor with Russia and expand turkish influence into areas of Syria cleansed of ISIS
But scorpions are loose in turkey and they are angry
Welcome to the party, pal
Another gang of Amish grandmothers, who else?
Can’t suss out the perp yet.
But betcha we can nail the religion.
Erdogan blames everything on Gülen.
And the first NSS (No Sh** Sherlock) Award of 2017 goes to...
Well yeah, I did it, but it was on that little Muslim boy Barack's Christmas list, and bad thing happen to people who don't do what he wants.
Could it be....................(wait for it)..............................radical Muslims?
Oh of course not....
Aloha Snackbar
Somehow I knew when I went to bed last night that the four attackers would be reduced down to one lone wolf when I would wake up in the morning.
Russians.
The Santa is working for Erdogan because he didn’t Blow Himself Up
It wasn’t unprotected. In a city that had 17,000 security personnel deployed, a nightclub that catered to the upper class had one cop/bouncer at the door to the club. I’m starting to wonder again if this was a hit, or at the least, an attack that was permitted to happen.
I knew it!
The article you posted last night on the other thread lays it all out, Merkel alludes it was an inside (police) attack.
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