Berlin

[Captain]

Another terrorist truck attack, this time at a crowded Christmas market. 12 dead and scores injured.

https://www.rt.com/news/370827-berlin-c ... ket-truck/

[Whiskey 7]

Bastards !!

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[Transient]

When will the world move beyond this nonsense?

[Ryoki]

Fucking hell

[AndyW]

This had to happen... It was just a matter of time.
"Is" said that they send attackers with the refugee-mob.
Its time to work together, lets throw that IS-scum into a big hole to turn em into oil!
My best wishes to those who lost their beloved, its sooo sad...

[Don Carlos]

Bad times

[Doombrain]

It's pretty bad in Gremany. Tensions are running very high and there's whole districts where you won't see or hear the German language.

Last time I was there a huge exhibition hall was set alight because the people living in it were not happy they had not been given a home yet.

https://goo.gl/photos/NAz5WAo9jdyXQ2jDA

Two days later there was a 'package' found and all halls were evacuated, later that day there were people arrested with AK47s and explosives just down from where we were stopping. Shit times indeed.

Part of the reason I quit jobs with international travel.

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[Don Carlos]

Holy shit

[obsidian]

[seremtan]

When will the world move beyond this nonsense?

quite

[Doombrain]

Lol

[Captain]

Germany has done its fair share of helping the sunnis and wahhabists rise to power but it's their people that pay the price for it.

Germany's readiness to cooperate with Saudi authorities has elicited criticism from opposition parties, which object to Berlin's military ties with Riyadh, all the more since Saudi Arabia launched a bombing campaign on Yemen in March 2015.

"They [Saudi Arabia] need weapons to enhance its strategic domination in the Middle East and become a regional power. Now it is most evident in Yemen, which is being bombed by the Saudis, because there was a revolution of Shiite forces there. And the West shyly looks away and basically doesn't want to raise the issue of what is going in Yemen," Neu said.

Neu also recalled that although Saudi Arabia is a part of the US-led international coalition against Daesh, the ideological orientation of the Saudi royal house is "wahhabism," a radical course in Islam, which is very similar to the ideology promoted by Daesh terrorists.

"Although Saudi Arabia is forced to officially participate in the fight against Daesh, it does so, in particular, to suppress any competition to wahhabism. So, obviously, the German government supports the jihadists and Islamists who in Europe would be considered terrorists, but in Syria are considered rebels seeking to liberate the country from Assad. Germany, other European countries and the United States support jihadists in Syria and thus, in fact, act in concert with Saudi Arabia," the expert concluded.

https://sputniknews.com/politics/201612 ... islamists/

[Whiskey 7]

Heard the news this morning (here) that the Police are still looking for the suspect and let go the one they had in custody

[seremtan]

that German efficiency we've been hearing so much about

[AndyW]

Christmas Market now secured by special forces:
Something is missing...

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[xer0s]

Testicles?

[AndyW]

no magazines

[Transient]

That's probably a good thing.

[Captain]

One step closer to a right-wing police state

[Doombrain]

They couldn't be further away from a police state if they tried. Many think that's the problem. They weren't even allowed to post an image of the guys face they were looking for because of privacy laws.

[Ryoki]

One step closer to a right-wing police state

Yeah, ok.
What Doombrian said.

[seremtan]

the only country in Europe more Allah-whipped than Germany is Sweden

[Captain]

They couldn't be further away from a police state if they tried. Many think that's the problem. They weren't even allowed to post an image of the guys face they were looking for because of privacy laws.

Not yet, but history dictates that's what will happen. France created their version of the Patriot Act after the latest attack and right-wing groups are using this as a way to gain further traction through fear-mongering.

According to press reports, the investigators found an identification document from Amri under the driver’s seat of the vehicle. Why they discovered it only after one-and-a-half days, although they had previously examined the vehicle for DNA traces of the first suspect, remains unanswered. Just as puzzling is why a perpetrator on the run would leave his visiting card at the crime scene.

Ralf Jäger, the interior minister of North Rhine-Westphalia, the state where Amri was registered, told the press that the participation of the man in the attack was “still not at all clarified.”

On the basis of available information, nothing definitive can be said about those responsible for the Berlin attack. An Islamic background cannot be excluded, but neither can a provocation by home-grown right-wing forces be ruled out. It should be recalled that the attack carried out by an 18-year-old student in Munich this past summer was immediately declared an act of Islamist terrorism, until it turned out that the offender was a right-wing extremist.

The lack of clarity has not stopped politicians and the media from using the Berlin attack to launch a concerted campaign against refugees and demand a massive buildup of the state apparatus. The right-wing extremist Alternative for Germany (AfD) and the Christian Social Union (CSU), the Bavarian sister party of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) in the federal government, are leading the pack.

http://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2016/12 ... e-d22.html

[Whiskey 7]

They got the bastard!

Italian police shot dead the man believed to be responsible for this week's Berlin Christmas market truck attack, killing him after he pulled a gun on them during a routine check in the early hours of Friday morning.

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2016-12-23/b ... er/8146100
http://edition.cnn.com/2016/12/23/europ ... led-milan/