Acts of Terrorism megathread

[Malthus]

Religious minorities, particularly Jews and Muslims, definitely have the feeling of having a bit of a target painted on them recently. 

[jimmy olsen]

Al Baghdadi lives

https://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/baghdadi-is-backand-vows-that-isis-will-be-too

[The Minsky Moment]

Fake news, ISIS is defeated.

[Valmy]

Fake news, ISIS is defeated.

They were at some point within 30 days of January 20, 2017 IIRC

[Zanza]

Walter Lübcke murder raises specter of neo-Nazi terrorism

A suspected neo-Nazi's arrest in the Kassel politician's murder case has focused concerns on far-right terrorism in Germany. The city is home to an extremist scene and was the location of a notorious NSU murder in 2006.

Germany's federal prosecutors have taken over the investigation into the murder of Walter Lübcke, indicating that the killing of the Kassel district president on June 2 is being treated as a politically-motivated terrorist act.

A number of German outlets have reported details of the alleged far-right ties of the suspect arrested in the city of Kassel in the early hours of Sunday morning.

The German daily Süddeutsche Zeitung reported on Monday that the 45-year-old man, named only as Stephan E., had a long criminal record, had already issued death threats via his YouTube channel, and that weapons were found during the search of his home.

According to the paper, Stephan E. had written a comment on YouTube in 2018 under his alias Game Over that read "Either this government abdicates soon or there will be deaths."

Few facts confirmed

Citing sources within security forces, the paper, along with public broadcasters NDR and WDR, said the suspect had been active in extreme-right groups, including the domestic neo-Nazi National Democratic Party (NPD) and a group known as the Autonomen Nationalisten (Autonomous Nationalists), a pan-European neo-Nazi group that has adopted some Antifa and far-left tactics.

Stephan E. is also believed to have been sentenced to six years in prison for an attempted bomb attack on a refugee home in 1995. He was also reported to have taken part in an attack on a trade union demonstration in 2009.

Officially, however, the federal prosecutors were giving little away about the investigation surrounding the suspect. Press spokesman Markus Schmitt appeared briefly before the cameras in Karlsruhe on Monday afternoon to confirm that the murder was being treated as a far-right extremist crime. He added that there was no indication yet that the suspect indeed belonged to a particular neo-Nazi terrorist cell, but that police were investigating whether others may have been involved.

Really bad development if the crazies turn to terrorism. I hope they crack down on these assholes with the full force of the law. But considering the right-wing sympathies in our law enforcement agencies, I have doubts. Let's see.

[Zoupa]

Really bad development if the crazies turn to terrorism. I hope they crack down on these assholes with the full force of the law. But considering the right-wing sympathies in our law enforcement agencies, I have doubts. Let's see.

Wtf   

2030 can't come soon enough...

[Zanza]

What happens in 2030?

[Syt]

German law enforcement has long had a reputation of "being blind in the right eye." Former head of the domestic security agency was an especially egregious case who downplayed the problems with radical right wingers, cozied up to the AfD, and claimed that the Social Democrats were harboring left wing radicals.

But even without him there's the blunders with regards to the murders by the National Socialist Underground, the xenophobe hate sent by members of the Frankfurt police, etc.

[Razgovory]

I used to think the laws in Germany that banned symbols of hate were stupid.  I believed that holocaust denial shouldn't be a crime.  I've revised some of opinion's recently.

[The Brain]

Denying false definitions of the Holocaust?

[mongers]

Reading an article about the Dawson's Field hijackings, it almost seems 'quaint' compared with the terrorism people in some poor countries and we in the West now face; think of young children being used as suicide bomber in Nigerian market places vs Palestinian terrorists convening a news conference to spout some marxist bullshit.

[mongers]

A terrorist attack at a Walmart in El Paso.

Texas Walmart shooting: 'At least 19' killed in gun attack

3 August 2019 

At least 19 people have been killed in the latest mass shooting in the United States, the BBC's partner network CBS News says.

The shooting happened at a Walmart store near the Cielo Vista Mall in El Paso, Texas, a few miles from the US-Mexico border.

At least 22 people, including young children, are being treated at local hospitals following the attack.

A white man in his 20s is in custody and is believed to be the sole shooter.

The first reports of a shooting emerged at about 11:00 local time (18:00 GMT)
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More detail here:
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-49221936

[jimmy olsen]

Amazing how white guys are often taken alive after killing a bunch of people, compared to how other people the police interact with are treated.

[Eddie Teach]

Do you have any statistics on that, or are you just going by your gut?

[Zoupa]

Do you have any statistics on that, or are you just going by your gut?

Good luck finding statistics on that. The statistics on unarmed shootings though are readily available. African americans are 3.49 times more likely to be shot than caucasians.