Not Westerners, the perpetrators are usually 'Westerners' themselves, infidels.
― Wewlay Bewlay (Tom D.), Saturday, 19 August 2017 17:34 (six years ago) link
The desire is more to strike fear in the West. The victims themselves can come from all over the world.
Not quite sure what happened at Nimes station last night - man arrested with "fake gun"?
― nashwan, Sunday, 20 August 2017 13:24 (six years ago) link
gun forgery is a serious offence
― blog haus aka the scene raver (wins), Sunday, 20 August 2017 13:26 (six years ago) link
news says it was a « pistolet d'alarme », a gun replica that can't shoot. They're evidently legal to use in private but not in public.
― droit au butt (Euler), Sunday, 20 August 2017 13:55 (six years ago) link
Too early to say if it's terrorist related. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/aug/21/marseille-car-old-port-france-police
― Dan Worsley, Monday, 21 August 2017 09:49 (six years ago) link
evidently the murderer had been brought by an "association" (usually this means a private group) from Grenoble to Marseille for specialized psychiatric care.
― droit au butt (Euler), Monday, 21 August 2017 11:40 (six years ago) link
Reports that the van driver in the Barcelona attack has been shot and killed. They don't hang about, the Spanish police.
― Wewlay Bewlay (Tom D.), Monday, 21 August 2017 15:16 (six years ago) link
Wait, had he been arrested?
― imago, Monday, 21 August 2017 15:17 (six years ago) link
Nothing confirmed yet.
― Wewlay Bewlay (Tom D.), Monday, 21 August 2017 15:18 (six years ago) link
OK, now I'm hearing he has been arrested and the police have shot dead someone else 'wearing an explosives belt'.
― Wewlay Bewlay (Tom D.), Monday, 21 August 2017 15:30 (six years ago) link
Do you have to arrest someone before shooting them I wonder
― jk rowling obituary thread (darraghmac), Monday, 21 August 2017 15:52 (six years ago) link
Ultimate right to remain silent iirc
― Le Bateau Ivre, Monday, 21 August 2017 16:21 (six years ago) link
Woman I work with is over visiting her parents.
― Wewlay Bewlay (Tom D.), Thursday, 17 August 2017 16:30 (four days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
She was safe and well but her parents live 10 minutes away from where this guy just got offed by the Catalan cops.
― Wewlay Bewlay (Tom D.), Monday, 21 August 2017 17:09 (six years ago) link
The Guardian is reporting that the man identified as the driver has been shot dead and that he was wearing a fake vest.
― Matt DC, Monday, 21 August 2017 17:11 (six years ago) link
http://www.bluemaize.net/im/automotive/vest-t-shirt-8.jpg
?
― how's life, Monday, 21 August 2017 17:14 (six years ago) link
you can see why they'd shoot him
― Screamin' Jay Gould (The Yellow Kid), Monday, 21 August 2017 17:46 (six years ago) link
Brussels attack: Man shot after stabbing troops
― Wewlay Bewlay (Tom D.), Friday, 25 August 2017 23:10 (six years ago) link
Result
― passé aggresif (darraghmac), Friday, 25 August 2017 23:43 (six years ago) link
http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-41055985
Dunno when we decide that attacks pass whatever smell test is required but Buckingham palace
― passé aggresif (darraghmac), Friday, 25 August 2017 23:51 (six years ago) link
Headcases are always waving knives about or setting themselves on fire or whatever outside Buckingham Palace, it's like a, er, Mecca for the criminally insane.
― Wewlay Bewlay (Tom D.), Saturday, 26 August 2017 00:06 (six years ago) link
Eyyyyy
― passé aggresif (darraghmac), Saturday, 26 August 2017 00:06 (six years ago) link
OK, so the guy at Buck House drove at a police car, brandished a 4ft sword and repeatedly shouted "Allahu Akbar", as ever though the line between terrorism and mental disorder is thin.
― Wewlay Bewlay (Tom D.), Saturday, 26 August 2017 11:35 (six years ago) link
Arah haven't we all done it
― passé aggresif (darraghmac), Saturday, 26 August 2017 12:20 (six years ago) link
Well, you know how things can get on top of you.
― Wewlay Bewlay (Tom D.), Saturday, 26 August 2017 12:23 (six years ago) link
Policemen?
― passé aggresif (darraghmac), Saturday, 26 August 2017 12:25 (six years ago) link
A few years back there were two very disturbed local people who were arrested for planning to kidnap the singer Joss Stone and decapitate her with a samurai sword. If it wasn't so genuinely disturbing, some of the details of how they got caught were quite darkly comical. This was only a few years into the Tory cuts on mental health services, as well.
― calzino, Saturday, 26 August 2017 12:42 (six years ago) link
is this a good thread for this? http://www.jpost.com/International/EU-envoy-Israel-can-learn-from-Europe-how-to-fight-terrorism-503168
― Mordy, Saturday, 26 August 2017 16:51 (six years ago) link
London ?
― passé aggresif (darraghmac), Friday, 15 September 2017 07:58 (six years ago) link
Or possible industrial/gas accident
― passé aggresif (darraghmac), Friday, 15 September 2017 07:59 (six years ago) link
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2017/sep/15/trains-london-euston-milton-keynes-cancelled-huge-fire-in-harrow
Sorry for bump, seems fairly clearly industrial
― passé aggresif (darraghmac), Friday, 15 September 2017 08:02 (six years ago) link
alternatively:http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-41278545
― angelo irishagreementi (ledge), Friday, 15 September 2017 08:08 (six years ago) link
that is mental. I just keep thinking, what would I do if I saw someone with a lit bucket on the tube?
― Cyndi Larper (stevie), Friday, 15 September 2017 09:16 (six years ago) link
i tell you what i definitely wouldn't do is stop to take fucking pictures of it, as multiple train passengers apparently did
― here's how **takes sip of duck urine** economics works (bizarro gazzara), Friday, 15 September 2017 09:20 (six years ago) link
kind of appreciate that they did, though
― Cyndi Larper (stevie), Friday, 15 September 2017 09:23 (six years ago) link
p sad that some people got trampled on the way out. though it is london public transport i suppose.
― Bein' Sean Bean (LocalGarda), Friday, 15 September 2017 09:29 (six years ago) link
If it's a bomb, it's the world's worst - based on the reports at the moment (noise, flame, heatwave), it sounds like a chemical reaction, some bloody painter reckoning he can carry these two things in the same tub with some cardboard between them or such.
― Andrew Farrell, Friday, 15 September 2017 09:31 (six years ago) link
Someone on TV at some point today will say "chemicals don't just explode!", which is as damning an indictment of the educational system as you can imagine.
― Andrew Farrell, Friday, 15 September 2017 09:36 (six years ago) link
somebody's done their Run, Trample, Crush, Hide, Tell training
― Cheds Baker (Noodle Vague), Friday, 15 September 2017 09:38 (six years ago) link
Must admit I hadn't thought Parsons Green would be high up on the list of potential targets for an ISIS operation.
― The Doug Walters of Crime (Tom D.), Friday, 15 September 2017 09:42 (six years ago) link
think the police have confirmed it's a terrorist act, as far as live news feeds are concerned.
― Bein' Sean Bean (LocalGarda), Friday, 15 September 2017 09:47 (six years ago) link
ooh, is this why you're not allowed to take tins of paint on buses?
― Cyndi Larper (stevie), Friday, 15 September 2017 09:56 (six years ago) link
Must admit I hadn't thought Parsons Green would be high up on the list of potential targets for an ISIS operation
busy as hell at rush hour though
― Cyndi Larper (stevie), Friday, 15 September 2017 09:57 (six years ago) link
it still looks more like the doings of a hapless art student rather than a terrorist.
― calzino, Friday, 15 September 2017 10:05 (six years ago) link
such a fine line
― Cheds Baker (Noodle Vague), Friday, 15 September 2017 10:05 (six years ago) link
i guess we just call everyone terrorists now to even the score with the daily mail
― Bein' Sean Bean (LocalGarda), Friday, 15 September 2017 10:06 (six years ago) link
Checklist:
* Did you feel terrified?* Did somebody do a thing?
― Cheds Baker (Noodle Vague), Friday, 15 September 2017 10:07 (six years ago) link
i guess there might be an inncocent explanation for it, but why would you carry a bucket inside a bag?
― plp will eat itself (NickB), Friday, 15 September 2017 10:08 (six years ago) link
if I stopped to ponder the actions of everybody I saw on public transport
― Cheds Baker (Noodle Vague), Friday, 15 September 2017 10:08 (six years ago) link
maybe if it had a hole in it xpost
― Bein' Sean Bean (LocalGarda), Friday, 15 September 2017 10:08 (six years ago) link
or maybe they'd bought the bucket. like when you buy a bag and put it in your bag
― Bein' Sean Bean (LocalGarda), Friday, 15 September 2017 10:09 (six years ago) link
Oops https://www.nytimes.com/2021/10/18/world/europe/norway-attack.amp.htmlIn Norway Attack, 'Sharp Object,' Not Arrows, Killed 5, Police Say
― Typo? Negative! (Boring, Maryland), Wednesday, 20 October 2021 23:16 (two years ago) link
interesting headline choice when that part seems like a simple mistake and this part seems a bit more important
The police had previously contacted Mr. Brathen, a 37-year-old Danish citizen and Muslim convert, over concerns that he had been radicalized, and the Norwegian security agency, known as PST, said soon after the attack that it appeared to be an “act of terrorism.”But on Monday, Per Thomas Omholt, the chief of police in the Sor-Ost Police District, said of the motivation for the crime that “the initial hypothesis about conversion to Islam is weakened.”“He has said he converted in public, but he has not lived up to this in practice,” Mr. Omholt said.
But on Monday, Per Thomas Omholt, the chief of police in the Sor-Ost Police District, said of the motivation for the crime that “the initial hypothesis about conversion to Islam is weakened.”
“He has said he converted in public, but he has not lived up to this in practice,” Mr. Omholt said.
― certified juice therapist (harbl), Wednesday, 20 October 2021 23:23 (two years ago) link
murderer: "i'm a terrorist"police: "let's not jump to conclusions. after all, you are very white"
― Tracer Hand, Wednesday, 20 October 2021 23:57 (two years ago) link
https://inews.co.uk/news/liverpool-womens-hospital-explosion-terror-police-lead-probe-blast-kills-one-injures-one-1300303
Bomb outside liverpool women's hospital at 10:59 on Remembrance sunday...
(bomber apparently took taxi to the hospital, the taxi driver noticed and locked him in)
― koogs, Monday, 15 November 2021 11:08 (two years ago) link
The taxi driver has been released from hospital already! The only person killed was the bomber. Still, what a nerve the driver had.
― suggest bainne (gyac), Monday, 15 November 2021 11:11 (two years ago) link
Shades of Smeato.
― Eats like Elvis, shits like De Niro (Tom D.), Monday, 15 November 2021 11:15 (two years ago) link
Curious, if the taxi driver could not get far enough away before the blast to not escape injury, how would the terrorist have had any time to try to exit the vehicle themselves if they tried?
― Evan, Monday, 15 November 2021 12:04 (two years ago) link
Idk, does it matter? Who cares?
― suggest bainne (gyac), Monday, 15 November 2021 12:14 (two years ago) link
good job the fuckwit used a taxi, not that I'd imagine there would be people queueing up for a suicide mission driving job in aid of blowing up a hospital ffs!
― calzino, Monday, 15 November 2021 14:00 (two years ago) link
Theory is the hospital wasn't the target but the driver drove to what I assume was the nearest car park, locked the doors and scarpered.
― When Smeato Met Moaty (Tom D.), Monday, 15 November 2021 14:16 (two years ago) link
ah right, in a scary af high pressure situation like that not much else he could do really
― calzino, Monday, 15 November 2021 14:19 (two years ago) link
Re evans q I assumed it wasn’t a timed detonation so much as the guy triggered it when he realised he was stuck in the car, so if he hadn’t been locked in he’d have had time to go wherever and blow himself up there
― siffleur’s mom (wins), Monday, 15 November 2021 14:20 (two years ago) link
The Torygraph sez..
The bomber, who died when his Improvised Explosive Device (IED) went off, had ordered a taxi to take him to Liverpool Women’s Hospital but well-placed sources stressed his motivation remained unclear as was his intended target.One possible theory is the bomber was intending to walk towards Liverpool’s Anglican Cathedral to detonate the device as the congregation left following a Remembrance Day service.
One possible theory is the bomber was intending to walk towards Liverpool’s Anglican Cathedral to detonate the device as the congregation left following a Remembrance Day service.
― When Smeato Met Moaty (Tom D.), Monday, 15 November 2021 14:24 (two years ago) link
If he hadn't locked the doors that could have been a very horrible situation
― calzino, Monday, 15 November 2021 14:29 (two years ago) link
Does this mean taxi drivers are good now?
― When Smeato Met Moaty (Tom D.), Monday, 15 November 2021 14:31 (two years ago) link
― suggest bainne (gyac), Monday, 15 November 2021 14:32 (two years ago) link
Bloody traffic, smh!
― When Smeato Met Moaty (Tom D.), Monday, 15 November 2021 14:35 (two years ago) link
Who doesn’t factor in traffic?
― siffleur’s mom (wins), Monday, 15 November 2021 14:38 (two years ago) link
Lamentable organizational skills.
― When Smeato Met Moaty (Tom D.), Monday, 15 November 2021 14:41 (two years ago) link
How do you lock someone in a taxi? Can't they just get out like in a normal car?
― peace, man, Monday, 15 November 2021 14:43 (two years ago) link
Central locking, all have it to stop naughty fair dodgers. and now terrorists
― Chicks and Ducks and Geese better scurry (Ste), Monday, 15 November 2021 14:44 (two years ago) link
The story now is he didn't lock the doors and the explosion happened while he was still in the taxi.
― When Smeato Met Moaty (Tom D.), Monday, 15 November 2021 14:46 (two years ago) link
yeah, if you've seen the cctv footage the explosion happens as soon as the taxi arrives at the hospital.
― Chicks and Ducks and Geese better scurry (Ste), Monday, 15 November 2021 14:51 (two years ago) link
mans gonna need a new air freshener for his cab
― o shit the sheriff (NickB), Monday, 15 November 2021 14:55 (two years ago) link
I thought I heard on the radio this morning that the device didn't explode properly, something about the detonator going off but not the complete load of explosives.
― calzino, Monday, 15 November 2021 15:02 (two years ago) link
I often overlook that in the big cities there are lots of white taxi drivers and of that ranting racist taxi driver stereotype. There are very few white ones where I live, perhaps even none at the moment. The most fascist taxi driver I ever encountered was a sikh with a brummie accent who had R4 on and was complaining that they never talk about Hitler's good policies. He was a real oddball. I bet if it had been an Asian taxi driver who was the hero of the hour, he'd have been handcuffed to the hospital bed!
Yes, I think it was only the detonator went off, hence the fact that the taxi driver is sitting at home just now with his feet up watching Escape To The Country.
― When Smeato Met Moaty (Tom D.), Monday, 15 November 2021 15:05 (two years ago) link
― suggest bainne (gyac), Monday, 15 November 2021 15:06 (two years ago) link
here is that thin line between successfully causing terror, death, mayhem and just blowing your bollox off in the back of a taxi!
― calzino, Monday, 15 November 2021 15:09 (two years ago) link
― When Smeato Met Moaty (Tom D.), Monday, November 15, 2021 9:46 AM (thirty-three minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink
Aha, OK. I was asking earlier because I wasn't understanding the described events.
― Evan, Monday, 15 November 2021 15:32 (two years ago) link
Women's hospital? If this happened in the US, I'd figure that it was an antiabortion attack.
― Christine Green Leafy Dragon Indigo, Monday, 15 November 2021 16:20 (two years ago) link
Not the intended target.
― When Smeato Met Moaty (Tom D.), Monday, 15 November 2021 16:26 (two years ago) link
Though you're right that in the US it might have been!
― When Smeato Met Moaty (Tom D.), Monday, 15 November 2021 16:27 (two years ago) link
It's more well known as a maternity hospital anyway, iirc
― kinder, Monday, 15 November 2021 16:34 (two years ago) link
This story gets weirder. It seems like the hospital might have been the target after all. The bomber was a Christian convert who'd been sectioned before. Why did he get a taxi at all? He only lived a mile away from the hospital, he could have walked there.
― When Smeato Met Moaty (Tom D.), Tuesday, 16 November 2021 11:11 (two years ago) link
A taxi just this once, as a treat
― Tracer Hand, Tuesday, 16 November 2021 11:17 (two years ago) link
what could possibly go wrong
― Chicks and Ducks and Geese better scurry (Ste), Tuesday, 16 November 2021 11:39 (two years ago) link
jesus wept
― calzino, Tuesday, 16 November 2021 11:44 (two years ago) link
A Conservative councillor has apologised after a tweet was posted from his account which mocked the Liverpool terror attack.The tweet, sent by Paul Nickerson, who is an Conservative councillor in East Riding in Yorkshire, included an image of the taxi on fire after the explosion that occurred outside Liverpool Women's Hospital on Sunday.But an image of former Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn had been superimposed and made to appear to be walking towards the flaming wreckage of the car.
The tweet, sent by Paul Nickerson, who is an Conservative councillor in East Riding in Yorkshire, included an image of the taxi on fire after the explosion that occurred outside Liverpool Women's Hospital on Sunday.
But an image of former Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn had been superimposed and made to appear to be walking towards the flaming wreckage of the car.
some of those with advanced Corbyn derangement syndrome find this kind of meme extremely hilarious. I should add in the shopped pic Corbyn is holding a wreath, presumably for his dear friend Emad Al Swealmeen.
― calzino, Tuesday, 16 November 2021 12:58 (two years ago) link