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2017-05-23 Britain
Manchester Arena explosion: 19 killed in 'terror attack by suicide bomber'
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Posted by Fred 2017-05-23 00:00|| || Front Page|| [6 views ]  Top
 File under: Islamic State 

#1 Europe Travel Alert / US State Department

Last Updated: May 1, 2017. This Travel Alert expires on September 1, 2017.

...Recent, widely-reported incidents in France, Russia, Sweden, and the United Kingdom demonstrate that the Islamic State of Iraq and ash-Sham (ISIS or Da’esh), al-Qa’ida, and their affiliates have the ability to plan and execute terrorist attacks in Europe.

Extremists continue to focus on tourist locations, transportation hubs, markets/shopping malls, and local government facilities as viable targets. In addition, hotels, clubs, restaurants, places of worship, parks, high-profile events, educational institutions, airports, and other soft targets remain priority locations for possible attacks. U.S. citizens should exercise additional vigilance in these and similar locations, in particular during the upcoming summer travel season when large crowds may be common.

Terrorists persist in employing a variety of tactics, including firearms, explosives, using vehicles as ramming devices, and sharp-edged weapons that are difficult to detect prior to an attack...
Posted by Glomosing Grusolet1975 2017-05-23 01:16||   2017-05-23 01:16|| Front Page Top

#2 Quakers? Music lovers?
Posted by g(r)omgoru 2017-05-23 01:45||   2017-05-23 01:45|| Front Page Top

#3 #PartAndParcel of a multicult society...
Posted by Bright Pebbles 2017-05-23 02:37||   2017-05-23 02:37|| Front Page Top

#4 
Posted by Herb McCoy7309 2017-05-23 03:39||   2017-05-23 03:39|| Front Page Top

#5 Murderer Unknown Suspect Likely Immature Male
Posted by Bright Pebbles 2017-05-23 03:53||   2017-05-23 03:53|| Front Page Top

#6 are we getting dat cultural enrichment?
Posted by Bov Flimbers 2017-05-23 03:57||   2017-05-23 03:57|| Front Page Top

#7 

Account posted about the Manchester incident before it happened supposedly. Now suspended from twitter. Their twitter handle is @Owys663

It's islam.
Posted by Bright Pebbles 2017-05-23 04:01||   2017-05-23 04:01|| Front Page Top

#8 I really dislike this face.
Posted by g(r)omgoru 2017-05-23 04:22||   2017-05-23 04:22|| Front Page Top

#9 Tragically many of the dead are young and did not have ID's on them, their phones most likely scattered in the explosion area.

In the mean time people are still trying to connect with children many hours later. Chances are they have died and will only be identified via a visit to where their bodies are kept.

Families still trying to find their kids.
Posted by Tiny Forkbeard7894 2017-05-23 06:20||   2017-05-23 06:20|| Front Page Top

#10 The same person above referred to by Bright Pebbles also posted on day prior to the attack the following:

"I am going to bomb infidels at the concert. Big news for my Muslim brothers. Tomorrow night I will go to the Manchester Ariana Grande concert and throw my handmade grenade in there! People will die in the name of Alah! Alah hates you Ariana, and you infidels! Islam will rise in the West and we will behead all of the non muslims!"

End of posted quote by Mujihad4ever
Posted by Snakes Munster5037 2017-05-23 07:02||   2017-05-23 07:02|| Front Page Top

#11 It's not a war if they only kill twenty of you at a time.

Dave Burge (Iowahawk) tweet:

Heartbroken thoughtsprayers hashtag TownNameStrong buildinglightshow candlelightvigil bewarebacklash lather rinse repeat
Posted by Matt 2017-05-23 08:37||   2017-05-23 08:37|| Front Page Top

#12 You forgot outreach.

Also: Hello, I see they came for Bobby Lee. :(
Posted by Shipman  2017-05-23 09:01||   2017-05-23 09:01|| Front Page Top

#13 #12 - Don't get me started on the statues. I might say what I really think. And hi back at you.
Posted by Matt 2017-05-23 09:09||   2017-05-23 09:09|| Front Page Top

#14 Salman Abedi identified as the suicide bomber
Posted by DarthVader 2017-05-23 09:16||   2017-05-23 09:16|| Front Page Top

#15 Price of not going Mongol on 9/12. You normalize this with additional attendant failures, see - North Korea, Iran.
Posted by Procopius2k 2017-05-23 09:21||   2017-05-23 09:21|| Front Page Top

#16 .....who was known to British authorities prior to the attack.

Which is the case over and over again, here and abroad. If we fail to purge this cancer we will lose. Destroy the mosques and evict them all.
Posted by Besoeker 2017-05-23 09:28||   2017-05-23 09:28|| Front Page Top

#17 Usual platitudes, lots of police standing around. Pontificating about how we need dialogue from the left and ideological counter campaign from the right. If you import the dregs of Islamic countries you get colonies of unemployed, ignorant young men prone to radicalization. Duh! This stops when you deport them or scare the crap out of them. Your choice Europe! Are you paying attention America to what democrat immigration policies will do to replicate this here.
Posted by Albert Whavins4754 2017-05-23 12:19||   2017-05-23 12:19|| Front Page Top

#18 
Posted by Blossom Unains5562 2017-05-23 12:23||   2017-05-23 12:23|| Front Page Top

#19 It's getting to be time for the rebirth of gibbeting.

Feed the ravens and the vultures.
Posted by AlanC 2017-05-23 12:53||   2017-05-23 12:53|| Front Page Top

#20 How in the hell could the people of London elect Sadiq Kahn as their mayor?

Londoners, Britains, Americans, Europeans,

You have a mayor who claims incidents like this are "part and parcel of big city life". How in the hell can you be convinced that this is true? What is wrong with you? How can anybody still argue with a straight face that we need to let more Arabs into our countries? If incidents like this don't wake you up there is no hope.
Posted by Abu Uluque 2017-05-23 13:38||   2017-05-23 13:38|| Front Page Top

#21 Neh, these people are eusocial only the gene line matters: that's why they like suicide attacks - like warrior ants or worker bees. You want deterrence - retaliate by wiping out the gene line.
Posted by g(r)omgoru 2017-05-23 13:40||   2017-05-23 13:40|| Front Page Top

#22 To see the graphic that Blossom Unains5562 was trying to post, go to moonbattery.com and scroll to the bottom, it's titled "Emergency Plan"

Apparently moonbattery.com does not allow direct linking so you have to get to the graphics the long way around.

It's worth a look.
Posted by Seeking cure for ignorance 2017-05-23 13:42||   2017-05-23 13:42|| Front Page Top

#23 Ok. To facilitate discussion, I've added a summary of what is known as of now about events and our known wolf to the top of the article. Well done, all!

Separately, according to police:

Huge Manchester shopping mall evacuated amid bomb fears

[IsraelTimes] Police arrest man after suspicious package found at Arndale center around noon. Police say this is not believed to be connected to last night's Arena attack.
Posted by trailing wife 2017-05-23 13:43||   2017-05-23 13:43|| Front Page Top

#24 eusocial

g(r)omgoru, you forgot to paste the URL in the box. But Wikipedia says:

Eusociality (from Greek εὖ eu "good" and social), the highest level of organization of animal sociality, is defined by the following characteristics: cooperative brood care (including brood care of offspring from other individuals), overlapping generations within a colony of adults, and a division of labor into reproductive and non-reproductive groups. The division of labor creates specialized behavioral groups within an animal society which are sometimes called castes. Eusociality is distinguished from all other social systems because individuals of at least one caste usually lose the ability to perform at least one behavior characteristic of individuals in another caste.

Eusociality exists in certain insects, crustaceans and mammals. It is mostly observed and studied in the Hymenoptera (ants, bees, and wasps) and in the termites. A colony has caste differences: queens and reproductive males take the roles of the sole reproducers, while soldiers and workers work together to create a living situation favorable for the brood. In addition to Hymenoptera and Isoptera, there are two known eusocial vertebrates among rodents: the naked mole-rat and the Damaraland mole-rat. Some shrimps, such as Synalpheus regalis, are also eusocial. E. O. Wilson has claimed that humans are eusocial, but his arguments have been refuted by a large number of evolutionary biologists, who note that humans do not have division of reproductive labor.
Posted by trailing wife 2017-05-23 13:49||   2017-05-23 13:49|| Front Page Top

#25 Mea culpa.
Posted by g(r)omgoru 2017-05-23 14:02||   2017-05-23 14:02|| Front Page Top

#26 Mea culpa.

Please, none of that Yiddish stuff.
Posted by Lonzo Unamp6025 2017-05-23 14:59||   2017-05-23 14:59|| Front Page Top

#27 Peditham hi sui vellyn?
Posted by g(r)omgoru 2017-05-23 15:09||   2017-05-23 15:09|| Front Page Top

#28 ISI celebrate
Posted by Bright Pebbles 2017-05-23 17:39||   2017-05-23 17:39|| Front Page Top

#29 @#22: Thanks.

The true heros (probably perforated to death by flying nails or liquidated by concussion) of the day were those who slowed down his progress into the arena also who, had the bomb not gone off, would today probably be facing charges of Islamophobia.
Posted by Blossom Unains5562 2017-05-23 21:21||   2017-05-23 21:21|| Front Page Top

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