Muslims Use 12 Year Old as Suicide Bomber in Turkey Wedding

[Weatherman2020]

Buddy of mine was on patrol in Afghanistan and standing in the middle of the street was an 8 year old boy crying. Turns out he had wires running inside his sleeves with an explosive vest on him. He was to walk up to them and touch the wires. Fortunately for all this boy wasn't programmed well enough and they got everything off him OK and shipped the boy out.

ISTANBUL – An Islamic State group suicide bomber as young as 12 years old attacked an outdoor Kurdish wedding party in southeastern Turkey, killing at least 51 people and wounding dozens of others, the Turkish president said Sunday.

The bombing late Saturday in Gaziantep, near Turkey’s border with Syria, was the deadliest attack in Turkey this year.

President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, speaking live on national television in front of Istanbul’s city hall, said the attacker was aged between 12 and 14. He said 69 people were wounded, with 17 of them in critical condition.

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[Tank]

And Hillary want's more of these sub humans in America

 

[Brynmr]

I don't call Islam as an evil ideology for nothing.

 

[Manonthestreet]

When you turn your country toward extremism what did he think was going to happen...

 

[Indeependent]

That's nothing new.

 

[theHawk]

Now Turkey is an Islamic extremist shithole, thanks to Obama backing Erdogan, instead of the moderate military.

But, that's been Obama's legacy, the radicalization of the Middle East on his watch.

 

[aris2chat]

hardly the first or last time children will be used

 

[RoshawnMarkwees]

Buddy of mine was on patrol in Afghanistan and standing in the middle of the street was an 8 year old boy crying. Turns out he had wires running inside his sleeves with an explosive vest on him. He was to walk up to them and touch the wires. Fortunately for all this boy wasn't programmed well enough and they got everything off him OK and shipped the boy out.

Now he makes fake clocks.

 

[aris2chat]

and yet another child bomber

Isil suicide bomber, 'aged 14,' stripped of bomb belt by Iraqi police

 

[waltky]

Turkey goin' after ISIS...

Turkey vows to cleanse Islamic State from border after wedding attack
Mon Aug 22, 2016 - Turkey vowed on Monday to "completely cleanse" Islamic State militants from its border region after a suicide bomber suspected of links to the group killed 54 people, including 22 children, at a Kurdish wedding.

Saturday's attack in the southeastern city of Gaziantep is the deadliest in Turkey this year. President Tayyip Erdogan said on Sunday it was carried out by a suicide bomber aged between 12 and 14, adding that initial evidence pointed to Islamic State. But speaking to reporters in Ankara on Monday Prime Minister Binali Yildirim said it was too early to verify the organization responsible or whether the attack was carried out by a child. A senior security official told Reuters the device used was the same type as those employed in the July 2015 suicide attack in the border town of Suruc and the October 2015 suicide bombing of a rally of pro-Kurdish activists in Ankara.

Both of those attacks were blamed on Islamic State. The group has targeted Kurdish gatherings in an apparent effort to further inflame ethnic tensions strained by a long Kurdish insurgency. The Ankara bombing was the deadliest of its kind in Turkey, killing more than 100 people. "Daesh should be completely cleansed from our borders and we are ready to do what it takes for that," Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu said at a news conference in Ankara, using an Arabic name for the group. On Monday, Turkey's military launched howitzer attacks on Islamic State while artillery pounded Kurdish YPG militants in Syria, whom Ankara sees as an extension of its own Kurdish insurgency. An official said the strikes were designed to "open a corridor for moderate rebels".

A senior rebel official said Turkish-backed Syrian rebels were preparing to launch an attack to seize Jarablus from Islamic State, a move that would deny control to advancing Syrian Kurdish fighters. The rebels, groups fighting under the banner of the Free Syrian Army, are expected to attack Jarablus from inside Turkey in the next few days. Reuters TV footage showed around 10 Turkish tanks deployed at a village around 4 km (2.5 miles) from the border gate immediately across from Jarablus. It was not clear how long the tanks had been there. Prime Minister Binali Yilidirm has said Turkey would take a more active role in Syria in the next six months to prevent the country from being divided along ethnic lines.

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Turkey strikes IS and Kurdish positions in Syria ahead of offensive
23 August 2016 - Turkey has bombarded so-called Islamic State (IS) targets in northern Syria amid reports Syrian rebels are to launch an offensive against the group.

Artillery positions inside Turkey fired on IS as well as Kurdish YPG militia targets in the towns of Jarablus and Manbij. Some 1,500 Turkish-backed Syrian rebels are thought to be in the Turkish town of Gaziantep waiting to attack. This follows a bomb attack on a wedding there that killed more than 50 people. The BBC's Mark Lowen in Gaziantep says the imminent offensive may have spurred the suicide bombing, thought to be the work of IS. However Turkey's Prime Minister Binali Yildirim says the identity of the bomber - initially thought to be a child - has not yet been established.

More victims of the blast are being identified and our correspondent says the wave of bombings in Turkey could intensify as the country becomes ever more embroiled in the Syrian war. Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu has said IS should be "completely cleansed" from northern Syria. A coalition including Syrian Kurdish YPG forces has been pushing IS out of Syrian towns, including Manbij. However the Turkish bombardment has also struck YPG positions north of Manbij, Turkish TV reported. Turkey views the YPG as an extension of the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK), a Turkish-Kurdish rebel group fighting for autonomy within Turkey since the 1980s.

'Guess'

Mr Yildirim said an earlier statement identifying the attacker as a child aged between 12 and 14 was a "guess" based on witness accounts. Most of the 54 victims of the Gaziantep attack were children, media reports say. Thirteen of those killed were women, Turkish media said. Sixty-six people are still in hospital, 14 of them in a serious condition, Dogan news agency reported. A disproportionately large number of women and children were killed in the attack because it targeted henna night, a part of the celebration attended mainly by women and children, says BBC Monitoring's Turkey analyst Pinar Sevinclidir. Hurriyet newspaper said the type of bomb, which contained scraps of metal, was similar to those used in previous attacks on pro-Kurdish gatherings. Gaziantep, near the Syrian border, is known to contain several IS cells.

Turkey strikes IS and Kurdish positions in Syria ahead of offensive - BBC News

 

[waltky]

Turkey goin' after ISIS wedding attackers in Jarablus...

Turkey Strikes ISIS in Syria as Tensions Rise over Border Town
Aug 23, 2016 — Turkish artillery shelled Islamic State targets across the border in Syria for the second consecutive day on Tuesday, a senior Turkish official said, amid reports that Turkey-backed Syrian rebels are preparing an offensive against an IS-held border town.

The latest developments have thrust the town of Jarablus onto center stage in the ongoing Syrian civil war, putting U.S.-backed Kurdish forces, who have been the most effective force against IS in northern Syria, on track for a confrontation with NATO ally Turkey over control of the town. Jarablus is a vital supply line and the last border point that directly connects the Islamic State group with Turkey and the outside world, and separates Kurdish-controlled areas in northern Syria. The town is 33 kilometers (20 miles) from the town of Manbij, which was liberated from IS by Kurdish-led forces earlier this month. Taking over Jarablus and the IS-held town of al-Bab further south would be a significant step toward linking up border areas under Kurdish control east and west of the Euphrates River.

The Ankara official said the Turkish shelling came after mortar rounds, believed to have been fired by the militants from Jarablus, landed on Turkish territory. The official, who spoke on condition of anonymity in line with government regulations, did not provide further details. Turkey has increased security measures at its border opposite IS-held Jarablus, deploying tanks and armored personnel carriers in recent days. Turkey has also vowed to fight IS militants at home and to "cleanse" the group from its borders after a weekend suicide bombing at a Kurdish wedding in southern Turkey that killed at least 54 people, many of them children. Turkish officials have blamed IS for the attack. Ankara is also concerned about the growing power of U.S.-backed Syrian Kurdish forces, who it says are linked to Kurdish groups waging an insurgency in southeastern Turkey.

A Turkish army tank and an armored vehicle are stationed near the border with Syria, in Karkamis, Turkey​

A Kurdish-led group known as the Syria Democratic Forces earlier this month liberated Manbij, triggering concerns in Ankara that they would seize the entire border strip with Turkey. The U.S. says it has embedded some 300 special forces with the SDF. French and British special forces have also been spotted advising the SDF. Syrian activists meanwhile say that hundreds of Turkish-backed Syrian opposition fighters are gathered in the Turkish border area of Karkamis in preparation for an attack on Jarablus.

Nasser Haj Mansour, an SDF official on the Syrian side of the border, said the fighters gathering in Turkey include "terrorists" as well as Turkish special forces. He declined to comment on whether the SDF would send fighters to the town, but a statement from the SDF said "we are prepared to defend the country against any plans for a direct or indirect occupation." The reports and rhetoric appeared to set up a confrontation between the SDF, the most effective U.S. proxy in Syria, and NATO ally Turkey. A rebel commander affiliated with the SDF was killed shortly after broadcasting a statement announcing the formation of the so-called Jarablus Military Council and vowing to protect civilians in Jarablus from Turkish "aggression."

Abdel-Sattar al-Jader was shot by unknown gunmen late Monday, an hour after he accused Turkey of mobilizing fighters and "terrorists" for Jarablus. Al-Jader had pledged to resist Turkish efforts to take control of the city and warned Ankara against further aggression. The SDF declared its full support for the council. The Jarablus Military Council later blamed the killing of al-Jader on Turkish security agents. There was no immediate comment from Turkey. Haj Mansour said two suspects were in custody but declined to comment on their identities.

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