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Istanbul airport attack

Aepervius said:
The point was that it does not take overwhelming planning , if two people with mental issues (your word) can do it.
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The hard part is getting 3 people willing to die so a certain number of random other people they probably never even met with will also die, whereas the organizer will live - and the perpetrators know all of this.
Organizing the attack itself it outright trivial compared to that.

Incidentally, this excludes Columbine as a valid comparison on multiple levels, because they targeted people they knew (and had plenty of conflict with, as far as I know), and didn't leave any member of their club behind alive to benefit from their deeds.

McHrozni
 
Turkey believes the airport attack was the work of ISIS and I think they're probably right. There are Russian jihadists fighting with ISIS, including fighters from the regions the attackers are supposed to be from. By saying I'm surprised ISIS didn't claim responsibility, I didn't mean to suggest it wasn't ISIS. There have been a number of suicide and terror attacks in Turkey and usually no group claims responsibility. In one of the attacks the PKK, the Kurdistan group, claimed responsibility, but in most there appears to be no claim. Turkey is part of the coalition fighting ISIS and some of the attacks were almost certainly the work of ISIS.
 
newyorkguy said:
Turkey believes the airport attack was the work of ISIS and I think they're probably right. There are Russian jihadists fighting with ISIS, including fighters from the regions the attackers are supposed to be from. By saying I'm surprised ISIS didn't claim responsibility, I didn't mean to suggest it wasn't ISIS. There have been a number of suicide and terror attacks in Turkey and usually no group claims responsibility. In one of the attacks the PKK, the Kurdistan group, claimed responsibility, but in most there appears to be no claim. Turkey is part of the coalition fighting ISIS and some of the attacks were almost certainly the work of ISIS.
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We dont know
 
I seem to recall that many times a suicide bomber's head gets popped cleanly off and is still recognizable making identification possible. My phone sucks so I won't even attempt a link. IIRCthere was a poster years ago that posted links to PLA bomber heads.
 
Wolrab said:
I seem to recall that many times a suicide bomber's head gets popped cleanly off and is still recognizable making identification possible. My phone sucks so I won't even attempt a link. IIRCthere was a poster years ago that posted links to PLA bomber heads.
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Or it gets disintegrated

Or the person has no prior record at all
 
newyorkguy said:
Turkey believes the airport attack was the work of ISIS and I think they're probably right. There are Russian jihadists fighting with ISIS, including fighters from the regions the attackers are supposed to be from. By saying I'm surprised ISIS didn't claim responsibility, I didn't mean to suggest it wasn't ISIS. There have been a number of suicide and terror attacks in Turkey and usually no group claims responsibility. In one of the attacks the PKK, the Kurdistan group, claimed responsibility, but in most there appears to be no claim. Turkey is part of the coalition fighting ISIS and some of the attacks were almost certainly the work of ISIS.
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A Turkish friend of mine has been following Turkish media (both pro and anti Government) and the consensus seems to be it was an ISIS attack. There's reports that the bombers, or people involved with the bombing, were from Central Asian countries like Uzbekistan. If true then it wouldn't be a PKK operation. I think left-wing radical terrorists in Turkey tend to target places like police stations rather than crowded civilian areas but I could be wrong.

Speculation is that it is in retaliation for Turkey normalizing relations with Russia (a staunch Assad ally).
 
CNN said:
The organizer of the Istanbul airport massacre is a well-known terrorist from Russia's North Caucasus region who served as a top soldier in the ISIS war ministry, a U.S. official said.

Akhmed Chatayev is the man who directed the three suicide bombers in the attacks that killed 43 people Tuesday, said Rep. Michael McCaul, chairman of the House Committee on Homeland Security.

Turkish media reported that a man nicknamed "Akhmed One-Arm" organized the attack.

While his whereabouts are unclear, his ties to jihadist activities are well documented, McCaul said.

"He's ... probably the No. 1 enemy in the Northern Caucasus region of Russia. He's traveled to Syria on many occasions and became one of the top lieutenants for the minister of war for ISIS operations," he told CNN's Brianna Keilar...
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http://www.cnn.com/2016/07/01/europe/turkey-istanbul-ataturk-airport-attack/index.html
 
newyorkguy said:
Turkey believes the airport attack was the work of ISIS and I think they're probably right. There are Russian jihadists fighting with ISIS, including fighters from the regions the attackers are supposed to be from. By saying I'm surprised ISIS didn't claim responsibility, I didn't mean to suggest it wasn't ISIS. There have been a number of suicide and terror attacks in Turkey and usually no group claims responsibility. In one of the attacks the PKK, the Kurdistan group, claimed responsibility, but in most there appears to be no claim. Turkey is part of the coalition fighting ISIS and some of the attacks were almost certainly the work of ISIS.
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Nope, we believe that its done by CIA.
 
AltaiKai said:
Nope, we believe that its done by CIA.
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One of two things is possible about this post:
1. A joke.
2. Someone has chosen to embrace a special kind of stupidity.
OK, a third possibility
3. A creature that usually lives under a bridge
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Darth Rotor said:
One of two things is possible about this post:
1. A joke.
2. Someone has chosen to embrace a special kind of stupidity.
OK, a third possibility
3. A creature that usually lives under a bridge
(Join Date: 30th June 2016)
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It's far from unlikely that it is a common believe "on the street" in Turkey. The average Turk knows more about machinations of the Deep State than you will ever believe. ;)
 
Western-Backed Chechen “Freedom Fighter” Named as Istanbul Attack Mastermind

Christoph Germann said:
[...] Western governments and media are now scrambling to explain why they dismissed Russian warnings about [Akhmed "One-Arm"] Chatayev and protected him for many years despite a long history of terrorism-related offenses.

Akhmed Chatayev first caught the Russian authorities’ attention when he was captured during the Second Chechen War in the late 1990s. Depending on whom you want to believe, Chatayev lost his right arm either due to a wound sustained during the fighting or as a result of torture after his arrest.

The circumstances of his release remain unclear, which prompted Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty’s The Interpreter to suggest that Chatayev might have been recruited as a Russian informer or agent.

Judging by his actions upon release, this seems unlikely. [...]
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Childlike Empress said:
It's far from unlikely that it is a common believe "on the street" in Turkey. The average Turk knows more about machinations of the Deep State than you will ever believe. ;)
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Of course, it fits in with 9-11 was an inside job. Everyone seems to need a boogeyman. :p
 
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