Istanbul airport attackers were from Russia, Uzbekistan, Kyrgyzstan, official says

[OKNancy]

Source: CNN

Istanbul airport attackers were from Russia, Uzbekistan, Kyrgyzstan, official says


Istanbul (CNN)The attackers who carried out Tuesday's shootings and suicide bombings at Istanbul's Ataturk Airport were from Russia, Uzbekistan and Kyrgyzstan, a Turkish official told CNN Thursday.

Turkish authorities had previously said they had indications the men were foreigners, but had not said where they came from.
Also Thursday, Turkish Interior Minister Efkar Ala announced that the death toll from the attacks had risen to 43, according to state news agency Anadolu.
While no one has yet claimed responsibility for the airport assault, Turkish authorities have said most signs point to ISIS, and CNN contributor Michael Weiss, author of "ISIS: Inside the Army of Terror," said the nationalities buttress that claim.
"One of the toughest battalions in ISIS is called the Uzbek battalion," he said. "These were the guys who were essentially on the front lines guarding Falluja, the city they just lost in Iraq."
"Ask anybody inside ISIS or who's fought ISIS. People from the former Soviet Union tend to be the most battle-hardened and willing to die," he said.
Authorities have now detained 22 people in connection with the Ataturk Airport attack, a Turkish official told CNN on Thursday.
Thirteen people were taken into custody in Istanbul and nine in the coastal city of Izmir, the official said. Three of those detained were foreign nationals, state media reported.
The terrorists stormed the airport Tuesday night, opening fire and detonating explosives -- two of them at the international terminal building, and the third in a parking lot, according to officials. In addition to the 43 killed, hundreds of people were injured.


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[BlueMTexpat]

1. Thanks for this update, OKN

Having recently visited Turkey (I loved the country AND the people!!! I can't say enough good about them.), I have been more heartbroken at these bombings than if I had never been and seen. Now I know actual people there who could have been affected. That always makes it more personal Thank heavens, they were nowhere near at the time. But those who were affected are every bit as precious to their loved ones and I weep for them.

It is interesting to hear - at least from this article - that those ISIS "members" from the former SSRs tend to be the most hardened and willing to die of all these thugs. I see such elements as at least indirect consequences of the Iranian revolution and radical Islamists there, the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan, and especially our encouragement of the most radical Islamic fighters against the USSR after they invaded. As a result, the USSR then cracked down harder on Islamic areas within the former SSRs while our CIA continued to collude with fighters in those areas as well.

The final straw was the 2003 illegal invasion and occupation of Iraq based on lies and the truly incompetent and corrupt management of that occupation. While Reagan, Bush I, Bush II and GOPers made the worst mistakes of all, there is still a lot of blame to go around in US foreign policy. Unfortunately.

[DetlefK]

2. "Willing" to die.

Or as kurdish fighters have put it in an interview: ISIS is using foreign fighters because they don't know what they are getting into.

[The Green Manalishi]

3. Good thing we'd never do that with our own citizens

I mean it's not like we inculcate our youth with M.I.C.-Hollywood Rambo style propaganda, limit them with piss poor economic opportunities and tell them about 'freedom when we send themout to kill and subjugate people in other countries...

[leftynyc]

5. Don't even begin to compare

the US military to isis - just fucking don't. As horrified as I was at that lyndie england and her leash nonsense, that doesn't compare to putting women in cages and burning them to death for not being willing to be sex slaves, for cutting off people's heads for not being religious enough - do I really need to go on and on and about isis's crimes? What a disgusting comparison.

[The Green Manalishi]

6. Not our military. Our Military Industrial (entertainment) complex

But the fact that GETTING otherwise normal people to do heinous things takes brainwashing.

Although bombing civilians under *ANY* circumstances is pretty fucking barbaric and anyone associated with doing so is different from ISIS only in degree, not in kind. Or maybe you approved of what we did in Iraq, Hiroshima, etc. We've killed a *LOT* more innocent people than ISIS. Dresden? Nagasaki? Firing 16 inch guns into residential neighborhoods? Just in Vietnam alone, we burned a hell of a lot more people to death than ISIS. Or is napalm really so different?

[leftynyc]

7. How old are you?

Were we supposed to throw Japan a fucking parade for attacking Pearl Harbor? How about the Germans? Think we could have stopped the nazis if we offered to sit down and serve them tea? I agree about Vietnam but your broadbrush against all war - even those not started by us - is immature bullshit that makes it very hard to take you seriously at all.

[The Green Manalishi]

8. There was NO need to nuke Nagasaki

and no need to firebomb Dresden, other than TERROR.

My point is that WE are bitching about ISIS when WE are the ones who have committed far more terroristic atrocities on other countries than they have.

No love for those scumbags, wipe them out, but WE are the ones flying drones over other countries attacking them.

No Iranian, Afghanstiani or Iraqui ever did anything to you or me unless we were invading their country.

Or are you of the "It's not terrorism when we do it" ilk?

Glad you're OK with killing innocent people in Iraq as long as it's the stars and bars on the plane firing 30mm depleted uranium shells.

And even taking anything from WW2 (and your baseless insults) off the table- in OUR lifetimes, in the LAST 50 YEARS who has attacked US, besides Saudi Arabian jihadists? Where the hell do we get off being morally superior? Or have you EVER looked at that fucking picture of the napalmed little Vietnamese girl, or the Iraqi kid with his hands blown off... glad YOU are cool with that shit, I'm not, and until WE stop doing that shit, until we stop flying drones over OTHER countries, people in this country should look in a MIRROR and to a ballot box instead of worrying about ISIS, or Iraq.

[uhnope]

11. it's true

what leftynyc said. You argue like a child

[winstars]

4. I guess those countries go on tRumps no entry list, along with France, Belgium and Britain...