The terrorist attacks we don't care about

PJ_Soul

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2016/03/14/horror-at-the-beach-22-dead-in-terrorist-attack-on-ivory-coast-resorts/

"Grand-Bassam’s beaches were busy Sunday afternoon. Soaring temperatures had driven people from across Ivory Coast to the city’s oceanfront resorts. Tourists and locals alike dove in the sea and lounged on the sand.

For al-Qaeda, it was an opportune moment to attack.

Six figures in black appeared on the beach. They wore balaclavas. They carried guns. They opened fire.

Armed with Kalashnikov rifles and hand grenades, the attackers marched across the sand, sowing death. They shot men, women and children. They shot Ivorians and foreigners. When security forces arrived, the gunmen killed two of them as well.

“They killed a child, despite him kneeling down and begging,” one witness said, according to the BBC. “They shot a woman in the chest. I swear, I heard them shouting ‘Allahu Akbar.’ They’ve killed innocent people.”.....

"The final tally: 22 dead, including the six gunmen, two soldiers and 14 civilians."

Thirty Bills Unpaid

PJ_Soul said:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2016/03/14/horror-at-the-beach-22-dead-in-terrorist-attack-on-ivory-coast-resorts/

"Grand-Bassam’s beaches were busy Sunday afternoon. Soaring temperatures had driven people from across Ivory Coast to the city’s oceanfront resorts. Tourists and locals alike dove in the sea and lounged on the sand.

For al-Qaeda, it was an opportune moment to attack.

Six figures in black appeared on the beach. They wore balaclavas. They carried guns. They opened fire.

Armed with Kalashnikov rifles and hand grenades, the attackers marched across the sand, sowing death. They shot men, women and children. They shot Ivorians and foreigners. When security forces arrived, the gunmen killed two of them as well.

“They killed a child, despite him kneeling down and begging,” one witness said, according to the BBC. “They shot a woman in the chest. I swear, I heard them shouting ‘Allahu Akbar.’ They’ve killed innocent people.”.....

"The final tally: 22 dead, including the six gunmen, two soldiers and 14 civilians."

Brutal.

Death to these assholes. I'm okay with a painful one too. Just cold hearted, inhuman, mutants.

Just gross.

brianlux

"And everybody putting everybody else down
And all of the politicians makin' crazy sounds
All the dead bodies piled up in mounds, yeah"
-Lou Reed

It's still a fucking crazy world here, Lou.

josevolution

At some point the world will realize that there is no end to this vicious cycle ...

Wobbie

I didn't read this whole thread.....I just know what happened in brussels is known as an average day in iraq. frankly, as callous as this sounds, I don't really care about sunni on shia violence. they've been doing it for 4000 years.

dignin

Suicide bombing in Iraq leaves 29 dead, dozens injured: officials
http://www.cbc.ca/news/world/iraq-suicide-bombing-1.3507527

Wobbie

yep.....and then there's stuff like bosnia.

Wobbie

clarification: Bosnia in the 90s

jnimhaoileoin

Wobbie said:

clarification: Bosnia in the 90s

And what do you mean in referring to it? It was hardly remotely comparable to recent terror attacks. The Bosnian conflict was a case of ethnic cleansing or attempted genocide and involved one state invading another. Are you referring to the lack or slowness of intervention??

PJ_Soul

http://www.cnn.com/2016/03/27/asia/pakistan-lahore-deadly-blast/

67 killed, mostly women and children. Splinter Taliban group responsible.

(Yes, i know a thread with 11 posts in it so far exists for this one)

pjalive21

making it about race destroys the whole conversation...I think someone nailed it on the head earlier about familiarity with location and with people versus something happening every single day in one area...unfortunately if its the norm then its not as "shocking"

PJ_Soul

Nothing here destroys a conversation (besides saying something destroys a conversation).

TL170678

Does Pakistan`s government even try to stop the Taliban?

Drowned Out

Wobbie said:

clarification: Bosnia in the 90s

what about it?

jnimhaoileoin

Drowned Out said:

Wobbie said:

clarification: Bosnia in the 90s

what about it?

I'm still waiting on an answer to that one

Annafalk

A side note; When the war was going on in former Joguslavia we got a lot of new cool classmates/friends. They quickly adjusted to living here as I remembered it.

jnimhaoileoin

Annafalk said:

A side note; When the war was going on in former Joguslavia we got a lot of new cool classmates/friends. They quickly adjusted to living here as I remembered it.

As did my best friend, who came from Bosnia aged 8 as a refugee. She now considers herself as Irish as she is Bosnian

my2hands

So I'm supposed to have white guilt because I don't keep track of every heinous event on planet Earth?

Sure, ok. Lol

PJ_Soul

my2hands said:

So I'm supposed to have white guilt because I don't keep track of every heinous event on planet Earth?

Sure, ok. Lol

No.

PJ_Soul

147 people, mostly students, killed by al-Shabab terror attack at a university in Garissa, Kenya.
It is the deadliest attack yet by al-Shabab.
The militants singled out Christians and shot them, witnesses said.

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-32169080