Terror attacks: separate attacks in Tunisia, France and Kuwait leave more than 60 dead

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Source: Guardian

More than 60 people have been killed across three continents, during three separate attacks in Tunisia, France and Kuwait. These attacks are not believed to be coordinated

At least 37 people have been killed in a terrorist attack on a beachside hotel in Sousse, Tunisia. The British Foreign Minister confirmed 5 Britons were among the dead, as was one Irish woman
Witnesses described terrifying scenes of people fleeing the beach with their children and screaming, before barricading themselves in hotel rooms. Reports on social media indicate that some of the hotels’ 565 guests are still inside the hotel
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In Kuwait, at least 25 people were killed by an explosion at a Shia mosque in Kuwait city during Friday prayers. More than 200 people were injured.

In France, police have arrested four people – including the main suspect Yassin Salhi – after a decapitated body was found following an attack on a factory in Saint-Quentin-Fallavier, south of Lyon. The suspect had reportedly tried to blow up the factory belonging to a US gas company
The three attacks come just days after after an Islamic State (Isis) spokesman urged jihadists to make the holy month of Ramadan “a time of calamity for the infidels … Shias and apostate Muslims”.



Read more: http://www.theguardian.com/world/live/2015/jun/26/tunisia-beach-resort-attack-multiple-deaths-live-updates

[TwilightGardener]

1. Pretty bad. Wonder why the attacks aren't thought to be coordinated?

[ellenrr]

7. I don't know, but here some more speculation:

Tunisia, Kuwait and France: Are attacks connected?

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-33294829

[cosmicone]

2. Perhaps the West should celebrate Ramadan

by carpet bombing some Wahhabi stronghold

[aint_no_life_nowhere]

3. Has ISIS targeted Shia religious sites for terrorist attacks to any significant extent before?

Or is this something new?

[muriel_volestrangler]

4. Several times, in the Gulf or Yemen

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/may/29/saudi-arabia-suicide-bomb-attack-kills-four-in-damman
http://america.aljazeera.com/articles/2015/6/18/yemen-bomb.html
http://www.dailystar.com.lb/News/Middle-East/2015/Jun-20/303033-car-bomb-explodes-outside-shiite-mosque-in-yemens-capital-witnesses.ashx

plus many more in Iraq or Syria, of course.

[ellenrr]

5. In the analysis of why target Shia,

it is thought that the goal is to start an ethnicly-based conflict, Shia v Sunni.

In terms of Tunisia one scholar said that ISIS (altho they haven't yet claimed "credit" for Tunisia) hates Tunisia bec. it is a successful democracy, and emerged from the Arab Spring as a success. Acc. to what I read, Tunisia is a flawed democracy, but compared to some other countries, - it is at least an intact country.

And this scholar says he thinks IS wants to reduce Tunisia to chaos as Iraq is, a failed state - then of course easy for Isis to take it.

[Bosonic]

6. Islamic State claims responsibility for Tunisia attack

Islamic State claims responsibility Tunisia attack

Islamic State has said it carried out the Tunisia hotel attack which has left 39 people dead, Reuters reported.

http://www.itv.com/news/update/2015-06-27/islamic-state-claims-responsibility-tunisia-attack/

[7962]

8. Sunni/Shia Makes as much sense as Methodists attacking Baptists.

What a bunch of stone age nonsense.

[Bosonic]

9. Tunisia attack: Britain must prepare for high death toll, PM warns

Tunisia attack: Britain must prepare for high death toll, PM warns

The public must be prepared for a high British death toll following the attack on a Tunisian beach resort, Prime Minister David Cameron says.

A Tunisian student linked to Islamic State (IS) extremists carried out the gun attack in Sousse which killed 38.

Tunisia's PM Habib Essid says the majority of the dead were British.

The first Briton known to have been killed in the attack has been named locally as Carly Lovett from Gainsborough in Lincolnshire.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-33297440

[Bosonic]

10. UK police foil Islamic State attack on armed forces parade

UK police foil Islamic State attack on armed forces parade

British police have encouraged the public to attend events as normal after it was reported that an Armed Forces Day parade had been targeted by Islamic State (Isis).

An intended suicide bombing of a parade in south London on Saturday would have targeted soldiers from the same unit as murdered soldier Lee Rigby, according to The Sun.

The plot to explode a pressure-cooker bomb - to kill soldiers and bystanders on the route - was revealed after one of its leaders in Syria unwittingly recruited an undercover investigator from the newspaper to carry it out, the report said.

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The newspaper said the plot to bomb the parade in Merton, south west London, was thwarted when it informed police and security services. The parade was targeted because it was closest to the barracks in Woolwich, south east London, where Fusilier Rigby (25) was murdered by Islamist extremists in 2013, the newspaper said.

http://www.irishtimes.com/news/world/uk/uk-police-foil-islamic-state-attack-on-armed-forces-parade-1.2265435