Turkey Suicide Bomber Identified As Saudi-Born, Syrian Refugee
On Tuesday, a suicide bomber detonated in Istanbul’s Sultanahmet Square outside the city’s Blue Mosque killing ten German citizens and injuring dozens.
Graphic images began to surface immediately on social media including the following two visuals which depict the moment of the explosion and the immediate aftermath:
There was little question that ISIS would be blamed. The PKK has largely eschewed civilian attacks of late, preferring instead to fight the army directly in the southeast.
Sure enough, just a little over an hour after the blast, security authorities said an Islamic State-linked suicide bomber was behind the explosion. Just 45 minutes later, Erdogan said the attacker was “of Syrian origin.”
On Wednesday we learn that the attacker was one Nabil Fadli, a Syrian national born in (surprise!) Saudi Arabia in 1988. Fadli was fingerprinted in Turkey just last week while registering as a refugee.
“Mr. Fadli’s apparent ability to enter Turkey, register with immigration officials and carry out the attack without triggering any international terror alerts is likely to fuel concerns that Islamic State extremists are exploiting the migrant crisis to sneak across borders to stage attacks,” WSJ writes. "When he was fingerprinted, Mr. Fadli said he had been smuggled into Turkey from Syria five days earlier [while] Adnan Alhussen, a Syrian opposition activist, said Mr. Fadli had been part of a rebel group near Aleppo that joined Islamic State in 2014, when it took over his town."
Here are images which purport to show Fadli at the registration center:
Clearly, this will do nothing to calm Europe's increasingly frayed nerves vis-a-vis Syrian asylum seekers.
Meanwhile, Ankara has arrested multiple suspected "terrorists" in the wake of the attack and in a hilarious "coincidence", some of the detainees are Russians.
"Since the attack, police have detained a total of 65 people including 16 foreign nationals in six Turkish cities, the Dogan news agency reported," Reuters reported, earlier today. "The Russian foreign ministry confirmed three of those detained were Russian nationals, but it was not immediately clear whether there was any connection to the Istanbul attack, for which there has been no claim of responsibility."
The question now is this: is Erdogan set to engineer a connection between Russia and the Istanbul attack in a desperate attempt to turn the tables on Moscow and tie Russian nationals to ISIS? If so, one wonders if Ankara knew the attack was imminent. Some have suggested that last year's blasts in Ankara and Suruc were false flags designed to give Erdogan the PR cover he needed to launch his own "war" on "terror" and restore AKP's supremacy in a redo election. Could there be a similar dynamic at play here?
On that note, we close with a quote from Deutsche Welle:
Turkey's intelligence services had warned security forces twice of the possibility of attacks on foreign tourists in the last few weeks, Turkish newspaper Hürriyet said on Wednesday.
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Welllll vewy interesting
SOMEONE PLEASE TELL ME HOW TO GET THE (&%$#@! 'GET ZH IN EMAIL" and TD America POPUPs TO GO THE HELL AWAY!!!!!!!!
I'm fed up with having to close it everytime I open an article.
The Financial Times has today published an article insisting that mass immigration from Africa and Asia into Europe is here to stay, so we’d better all get used to it.
Unbelievable. The author, Gideon Rachman, writes, “once large immigrant populations are established, the right of “family reunion” will ensure a continued flow. So Europe is likely to remain an attractive and attainable destination for poor and ambitious people all over the world.
The outcome, he believes, is not only inevitable, but should be embraced.
The original article is behind a paywall so here’s the link to a Breitbart summary:
http://www.breitbart.com/london/2016/01/12/financial-times-mass-immigrat...
Sort of like the mass migration from Africa 12,000,000 years ago, to mix with the Neanderthals of the northern hemisphere :)
Financial? Gideon? Careful of agendas! Just sayin'.
The africans also wiped out the northern hemishpere locals back then too.
Shit! Let's hope not.
UEFA Champion's League is the best thing about life on Earth (minus FIFA W/C years). And African Cup Of Nations doesn't quite compare.
TRUMP just keeps on hittin em outta the park.
Gonna have to engineer something quick because just about everybody with a still functioning brain knows that the Saudi Arabians and the Turk president are openly supporting Wahhabist Terrorism being done by Sunni Muslims.
Yesterday someone commented on die Zeit that Israel pays some African countries to receive 'refugees' who cannot remember where they were born.
12,000,000 years ago????
Give me a break. OK, 6,000 years ago with Adam and Eve and the serpent. How the eff I know? Should I google first? Are you German?
Gideon Rachman, Jew
Only if you stop yelling and say "please".
Have never experienced any "pop-ups". But then again, I am on a Mac, I use Firefox with AdBlock Plus and NoScript... but that's just me.
AdBlock or Adblock plus are the best imo.
Ghostery
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You're giving the guy a massive migraine. None of that stuff is available on Netscape.
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I have noticed that it works at certain times of the day...on certain sensitive articles...
Just remember my fellow zerohedgers, these ads on zerohedge are able to turn off my music and listen to me.
Total spyware.
And my tor browser doesn't accept cookies for some strange reason....
Probably our good friends in israel, listening to me yell at the obvious spyware that attack my browser and makes it do funny things...
They can't listen to you if you don't have a microphone, and they can't see you if you don't have a video camera.
Download and install AdBlock.
translation, like we've been saying for years, Saudi Arabia needs to be bombed. More recently, Turkey has donethis to themselves, and should host a coup. Then a coup should take place across the west.
A citizen's coup, not a military coup nor a security organizations coup nor a banker's coup.
'Hoping for a colonel' was a thought I had, but it is a terrible precedent even if we could trust them for as long as it takes to get them back into the barracks, which is so rarely true. Priests have always discovered they like power and work to prolong it, military are no better than that. So we need to be wary of even local milita power. As peace keepers in the immediate emergency, excellent. As enforcers of anything else, or even enhancers of anythig except keeping order as the civilian world re-knitted itself, not good.
I have been reading and watching Webster Tarpley's stuff, his interpretation is that the Pentagon is setting up for a coup, that 9/11 the military was prepared to take out civilian government if Shrub didn't go along.
Pretty clear that the military feels free to cut orders opposing the Executive, this latest Hersh ?I think so? article and the McCrystal example that military officers feel free to diss not just the foreign policy of their civilian leadership, but those leaders persoanlly, including the President.
As a first-level, completely naive, interpretation of capabilities vs intentions, clearly nothing has changed, the military has always had the ability to take over the country, at least since WWII and nuclear weapons. Engineered events, by some interpretations, but we aren't being paranoid here, we don't believe in long running conspiracies.
But even naively, as a measure of the kinds of attitudes one would need in one's officer corps if one were going to use a 9/11 and its aftermath to take over the country. Oh, yes.
Way, way, way past time to get excited. We better pre-empt that trend, I think. This country is trending gulagward.
We are constantly told that we must be tolerant, but how long do they expect their behaviour to be tolerated.....
http://beforeitsnews.com/global-unrest/2016/01/the-lion-is-it-time-to-fi...
Who are "they"? Oh, the Brits?
https://www.rt.com/uk/328797-gangs-sexual-exploitation-girls/
I agree. The chicks in Cologne got off relatively easy by comparison!
Ahh! another victory for the war on drugs and progressive immigration policies!
So we should let them into America too?
Should have just let a few dogs loose to clean up that scene.
We let you and your grandparents in didn't we, Ape? And in case you didn't notice, Africans are already in "America" (I assume you're talking about the USA). Have been, since the Middle Passage...
How about Syrians?
You smart enough to follow the time stamps of post. FYI- They go up by 1's.
After we let you and your ancestors ilk in, we should allow Syrians, Libyans, Palestinians, and any other kind of "ans".
It ain't like they could even approach the mayhem, death, and destruction y'all have caused, eh bro? After all, they were peaceful before your ilk showed up unannounced...
Issues, Eh? Confusion, Eh? Wrong eh?
In the words of one of my all-time favourite cameos, upon a medivac chopper being suicided:
"Fucking Savages"
Blew himself up but a perfectly intact Saudi passport was found at the scene.
Or was it a Syrian passport. Oh, both you say. With a rubber band holding them together.
Saudi passports are indestructible. Allegedly.
rubber band... tears!
the german press is talking about three russians... wtf?
even russian media was talking about 3 russians
Putin has pointed out there are many Russians from Chechnya in Syria and Turkey. Those are the ones we wants to off before they decide to come back to Russia and stir up shit there.
yep, chechens. the worst of the worst. lots of the head choppers in syria were chechens, they love that shit.
Yeah Obama, let's let more of these a-holes in, you fking putz.
Turkey is a super favorite destination for Germans esp the Turquoise Coast. It can get bad for them if those "syrian doctors and engineers" don't calm down.
I think refuge should be in quotes since he was clearly not one.
It's obviously a false false flag, organized by the caliph of Carnage recipe Erdogan. Can these I$I$ mutts finally purge the Crypt of Saud already?
So, Erdogan blew up some Germans and claimed that a Syrian is at fault. Is that right? Am I inferring incorrectly?
I posited previously that ISIS have a vested interest in getting refugees thrown out of Europe, and this bombing seems to fit, if Erdogan = ISIS, or even if Erdogan isn't to blame here, it is all forcing European blowback against Muslims.
Apparently, suggesting this makes me Jewish, which is surprising - I never knew. Oivey!
So, are we all still agreed that Muslims are inherently foul rapists, or could there be a modicum of organisation behind pan-national molestation? What confuses me most is that here, of all places, the possibility of conspiracy is being actively rejected, and random madness is the preferred choice. Look forward to more rabid random Jew-bashing :-)
I very much agree with looking behind the curtain, extreme skepticism is needed in all this.
But I think the world is experiencing a large shift of power, and our Israeli-Neocons using the US military to try to dominate the world is a large part of it. That has been a serious enough effort that Frau Merkel has sided with Putin and been attacked by encouring millions of refugees to invade Europe. The popularity trajectories of Putin relative to Obama are the world being polarized by these Israeli-Neocons and allies, and all of the wars of oligarchy, etc are minor in comparison. Look at the expansion of military bases across Africa, first we create the need, then provide the assistance.
Israeli-Neocons have dirven the huge expanse of the war, which was going on long before 9/11 recall? 9/11 was just a way of getting the power they needed to expand it forever. And it was a commitment to a continuous increase in power, in that rare case that they lose control of public opinion.
They are losing control of public opinion, and will hang if the public ever converts the growing understanding of what has happend to the US into political anger.
They control the military, they use large-scale false flags, the progression of 93 WTC, OKC, 9/11 says they are thinking ever-larger, the nuclear establishment of the AF was just shaken up, so many possibilities.
Cherry-picking evidence, the stuff that just pops into your head, is fun. Never is valid, until it is, and then it was the intuition of a great analyst.
"Order our embeds to orchestrate another hoax with Iran to take this story away"
-Benjamin Netanyajew
turkey have created a frankenstein
Religion of Piece, as in blow you into pieces.