Terrorist attacks throughout Europe

"yet he chose to treat it as one by selecting this thread"

I wouldn't be such a supercilious arrogant prick if I didn't have a basic understanding of how threads work on here.

Hah! I shall raise my eyebrows at you!

Here you go, let's not fall out over this one.

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2021/oct/15/counter-terrorism-police-take-over-inquiry-into-david-amess-killing

"Basically all that was said in the article at the time it was posted to this thread was that an assault with a bow and arrow had happened in a public place in Norway and multiple people had been killed or injured."

So basically it was totally fine to revive the thread. If it had turned out not to have been a terror attack this would've been corrected eventually.

Oops
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/10/18/world/europe/norway-attack.amp.html
In Norway Attack, 'Sharp Object,' Not Arrows, Killed 5, Police Say

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.

murderer: "i'm a terrorist"
police: "let's not jump to conclusions. after all, you are very white"

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)

The taxi driver has been released from hospital already! The only person killed was the bomber. Still, what a nerve the driver had.

Shades of Smeato.

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?

Idk, does it matter? Who cares?

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!

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.

ah right, in a scary af high pressure situation like that not much else he could do really

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

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.

If he hadn't locked the doors that could have been a very horrible situation

Does this mean taxi drivers are good now?

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

Bloody traffic, smh!

Who doesn’t factor in traffic?

Lamentable organizational skills.

How do you lock someone in a taxi? Can't they just get out like in a normal car?

Central locking, all have it to stop naughty fair dodgers. and now terrorists

The story now is he didn't lock the doors and the explosion happened while he was still in the taxi.

yeah, if you've seen the cctv footage the explosion happens as soon as the taxi arrives at the hospital.

mans gonna need a new air freshener for his cab

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.

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.

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.

here is that thin line between successfully causing terror, death, mayhem and just blowing your bollox off in the back of a taxi!

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, 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.

Women's hospital? If this happened in the US, I'd figure that it was an antiabortion attack.

Not the intended target.

Though you're right that in the US it might have been!

It's more well known as a maternity hospital anyway, iirc

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.

A taxi just this once, as a treat

what could possibly go wrong

jesus wept

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.

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.