ISIS has claimed responsibility for a suicide gun and bomb attack on the Ataturk international airport in Istanbul that has claimed the lives of at least 28 people and injured 60.
Three attackers were reportedly involved in what appears to be a major co-ordinated assault. Reports indicate that all three attackers have been killed.
— Traveler Joe Durand told CNN from the airport that “Police are not letting anyone in … Hundreds of people are flooding away from airport… People are trying to get away. They’re not saying much — just the look on their face is enough, shock, some of them bleeding…”“People are walking away bleeding, with bandages on their head.”— Traveler Laurence Cameron described what he saw after he stepped off a plane: “It was just a massive crowd of screaming people. Some were falling over themselves. A poor chap in a wheelchair was just left, and everyone just rushed to the back of the building, and then people ran the other way and no one really seemed to know what was going on,” he told CNN. “Where you normally hail a taxi, that is where the attack happened. The ground is just kind of shredded. There is bloodstains on the floor as well.”— Turkey’s Justice Minister Bekir Bozdag earlier 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.Istanbul Ataturk Airport— It’s the 11th busiest in the world in terms of terms of passenger traffic (2015)
— It’s Europe’s third busiest airport (2015)
— Almost 62 million passengers pass through each year
— There are two main passenger terminals
— Terminal 1 is older, smaller and handles domestic travel
— Terminal 2 is the newer, bigger international terminal
— There is a vehicle checkpoint at the entrance to the airport compound
— There is also an X-ray security checkpoint before entering the terminal
— The airport is roughly 15 miles from the city
Source: Airports Council International/CNN
— U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry, referencing the attack in Istanbul, told an audience at the Aspen Ideas Festival on Tuesday, “We are still collecting information and trying to ascertain what happened and who did it.”— Ataturk Airport is “one of the most secure airports in the world,” CNN senior law enforcement analyst Tom Fuentes says. But the airport has been “very overwhelmed for several decades with terrorism from PKK.”— The U.S. embassy in Ankara, the Turkish capital, is sending consular officers to the airport to account for any potential U.S. victims. But there are no indications of any American casualties at this point, a senior State Department official told CNN’s Elise Labott.— The attacks happened on a warm summer night at the airport, east of Istanbul, that is the 11th busiest in the world in terms of passenger traffic. CNN’s Ali Veshi says it is a modern, sophisticated airport. “There are all of the major European and American boutiques there,” said Velshi, who has traveled through Turkey many times. “… You see people of all shapes and colors, in all sorts of dress. If you want to target the cosmopolitan nature of Istanbul, this is possibly the most cosmopolitan, heavily populated part. You can target tourist areas, but this is the part where the world comes together.”
Source: CNN
I don’t recall asking you.
And once again Obama will come out and say “we’ll have to wait and see what was behind this”. Haha, what an idiot!
Well it is in their own back yard and they keep hiding terrorists said. It was bound to happen
Don’t be fooled. We have a major problem in America. Islam’s first and foremost teaches world$#%&!@*and Sharia law. Obama is trying to turn America an Islamic country. He has placed Muslim’s in key positions in our government. He has pushed a major pr campaign to label anyone who speaks out against Islam as racist and divided the country. Meanwhile Islamic terrorists attacks killing innocent people have become common on a weekly almost daily bases to spread fear of Islam throughout the world. As Americans our country was founded as one nation indivisible under god. They are systematically trying to disarm America to make us defenceless. Hillary Clinton has been bought and paid for by Islamic countries. We as Americans have two choices. Submit to Islam which would turn us into a war torn third world country or fight back and eradicate Islam in America and throughout the world. They will continue to lie and say Islam peaceful over and over as the continue to kill innocent people. The sooner people realize they use liberals and the media to accomplish their goals the sooner we can take our country back. Arm yourself to the tooth. This is not going to end pretty but we are Americans one nation under god with liberty and justice for ALL. White black Latino Asian all ethnic cultures in America must put an end to this Islamic invasion. We are considered infidels and must either submit to Islam or die. Let’s finish this. What we are witnessing is called Islamic jihad.
The crazy muslims even love to kill other muslims, and they always have.
Why the Peaceful Majority is Irrelevant
I used to know a man whose family were German aristocracy prior to World War Two. They owned a number of large industries and estates. I asked him how many German people were true Nazis, and the answer he gave has stuck with me and guided my attitude toward fanaticism ever since.
“Very few people were true Nazis” he said, “but, many enjoyed the return of German pride, and many more were too busy to care. I was one of those who just thought the Nazis were a bunch of fools. So, the majority just sat back and let it all happen. Then, before we knew it, they owned us, and we had lost control, and the end of the world had come. My family lost everything. I ended up in a concentration camp and the Allies destroyed my factories.”
We are told again and again by “experts” and “talking heads” that Islam is the religion of peace, and that the vast majority of Muslims just want to live in peace. Although this unquantified assertion may be true, it is entirely irrelevant. It is meaningless fluff, meant to make us feel better, and meant to somehow diminish the specter of fanatics rampaging across the globe in the name of Islam. The fact is, that the fanatics rule Islam at this moment in history. It is the fanatics who march. It is the fanatics who wage any one of 50 shooting wars world wide. It is the fanatics who systematically slaughter Christian or tribal groups throughout Africa and are gradually taking over the entire continent in an Islamic wave. It is the fanatics who bomb, behead, murder, or honor kill. It is the fanatics who take over mosque after mosque. It is the fanatics who zealously spread the stoning and hanging of rape victims and homosexuals. The hard quantifiable fact is, that the “peaceful majority” is the “silent majority” and it is cowed and extraneous.
Communist Russia was comprised of Russians who just wanted to live in peace, yet the Russian Communists were responsible for the murder of about 20 million people. The peaceful majority were irrelevant. China’s huge population was peaceful as well, but Chinese Communists managed to kill a staggering 70 million people. The Average Japanese individual prior to World War 2 was not a war mongering sadist. Yet, Japan murdered and slaughtered its way across South East Asia in an orgy of Killing that included the systematic killing of 12 million Chinese civilians; most killed by sword, shovel, and bayonet. And, who can forget Rwanda, which collapsed into butchery. Could it not be said that the majority of Rwandans were “peace loving”.
History lessons are often incredibly simple and blunt, yet for all our powers of reason we often miss the most basic and uncomplicated of points. Peace-loving Muslims have been made irrelevant by the fanatics. Peace-loving Muslims have been made irrelevant by their silence. Peace-loving Muslims will become our enemy if they don’t speak up, because like my friend from Germany, they will awake one day and find that the fanatics own them, and the end of their world will have begun. Peace-loving Germans, Japanese, Chinese, Russians, Rwandans, Bosnians, Afghans, Iraqis, Palestinians, Somalis, Nigerians, Algerians, and many others, have died because the peaceful majority did not speak up until it was too late. As for us who watch it all unfold, we must pay attention to the only group that counts; the fanatics who threaten our way of life.
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Praying for the families of the injured and dead.
This is who Hillary Clinton got paid $160 million from to bring over to America to kill Americans you stupid voters are going to vote for this
If everyone would realize that ISIS was created, and is funded by the US GOVT and Isreal, that’d be great.
Where’s all the Facebook profile pic flags and “grill stand with Turkey ” memes?