Suicide Bomber Injures 12 Outside German Bar
Last edited Mon Jul 25, 2016, 03:59 AM - Edit history (6)
Source: Sky News
A suspected suicide bomber has killed himself and injured 12 others in an explosion outside a wine bar in the German city of Ansbach.
Detectives have said the suspected attacker was a 27-year-old Syrian man who had been denied asylum in Germany.
Security officials say he detonated an explosive device after being turned away from a music festival being attended by thousands of people.
Joachim Herrmann, Bavaria's interior minister, said the contents of his backpack had the potential to kill and injure many more victims as it was filled with explosives and metal parts. "It's very likely this really was an Islamist suicide attack", he said.
Read more: http://news.sky.com/story/one-dead-after-explosion-at-german-restaurant-10511772
A failed Syrian asylum seeker has blown himself up and injured 12 other people with a backpack bomb near a festival in the south German town of Ansbach.
The state of Bavaria's interior minister said the 27-year-old man had detonated the device after being refused entry to the music festival.
About 2,500 people were evacuated from the venue after the explosion.
Bavaria has been on edge since a knife rampage on a train claimed by so-called Islamic State last Monday.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-36880758
NWCorona
(8,541 posts)LeftishBrit
(41,219 posts)MariaThinks
(2,495 posts)christx30
(6,241 posts)Germany. Sounds to me like the Germans made the right call.
shenmue
(38,506 posts)Duckhunter935
(16,974 posts)Stationed there in the 90s, such wonderful people 😢
Adsos Letter
(19,459 posts)Pond Barracks, 3/2 ACR. Beautiful part of the country.
Duckhunter935
(16,974 posts)Went through Amberg many times. People kept trying to drive our missile trucks with live rounds through downtown.
Adsos Letter
(19,459 posts)But drove through many towns and villages during REFORGER's 74 and 75, and any number of ftx's.
Nothing like piles of torn up cobblestones on tight turns to win friends and influence people.
Duckhunter935
(16,974 posts)I drove my radar, never through center of towns. Our field sites and headquarters were in Graf. 3-60 ADA. German nationals would also tailgate the new M1 tanks around hohenfels and cook the paint off the cars.
jdadd
(1,314 posts)Stationed there 69-71..Was TDY, Pond Barrracks late 69 for two weeks.
MyNameGoesHere
(7,638 posts)Worked as a contractor at the Air Base.
Duckhunter935
(16,974 posts)Everywhere along the autobahn were US base signs. Not anymore, went back TDY as a civilian a couple of years ago. Still can see my old site on Google maps.
JRLeft
(7,010 posts)7962
(11,841 posts)EX500rider
(10,893 posts)MariaThinks
(2,495 posts)daleo
(21,317 posts)Throw in the conversion to renewable sources, and we could disengage.
It might cost more per barrel, but it looks like it might be worth it, to extricate ourselves from the turmoil that is due to our meddling there (maybe not entirely due to our meddling, but it plays a significant role).
MyNameGoesHere
(7,638 posts)right in the middle of the Fußgänger. Beautiful little town. Such a mad demented world.
Duckhunter935
(16,974 posts)So sad this is happening to the people that welcomed them.
Sen. Walter Sobchak
(8,692 posts)Last edited Sun Jul 24, 2016, 10:04 PM - Edit history (1)
What other explanation could there be?
GummyBearz
(2,931 posts)The current puzzle reads: i_lamic te__o_i_m
Would you like to solve?
Sand Rat Expat
(290 posts)I did my best to play the part, but I just can't squeeze my eyes shut that tightly.
Akicita
(1,196 posts)Elmergantry
(884 posts)Done by Neo-Prohibitionists!
Sen. Walter Sobchak
(8,692 posts)Elmergantry
(884 posts)Anti-Vinto terrorist group.
No self respecting German would drink wine when Beer is the national drink!
Akicita
(1,196 posts)MowCowWhoHow III
(2,103 posts)(CNN) An explosion in the southern German city of Ansbach was a suicide attack, according to the region's interior minister. The bomber died in the blast.
A device was exploded by a 27-year-old Syrian national outside a music festival. He had been denied entry into the event due to the lack of a ticket, Bavarian Interior Minister Joachim Herrmann said during a news conference early Monday.
Twelve people were injured.
The man, who has not yet been named, stood around the festival entrance for a short period before he blew himself up. The music festival and surrounding area were evacuated.
http://edition.cnn.com/2016/07/24/world/ansbach-germany-blast/
jakeXT
(10,575 posts)Elmergantry
(884 posts)Per last report.
Rustyeye77
(2,736 posts)If he was unhappy, he had other choices.
MowCowWhoHow III
(2,103 posts)https://twitter.com/AFP/status/757570906822742020
Also the suicide bomber is highly unlikely to have cooked up the explosives and rigged the bomb himself, which means there's an active cell somewhere.