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Post by rickoshea on Jul 14, 2016 21:55:38 GMT
Dozens killed as truck crashes into Bastille Day crowd in Nice, France
www.washingtontimes.com/news/2016/jul/14/truck-crashes-bastille-day-crowd-nice-france/France’s national holiday turned ugly for revelers Thursday night in the southern city of Nice, as a truck reportedly crashed into a crowd of Bastille Day revelers, killing dozens of people.
The mayor of Nice tweeted that dozens of people were killed, and the chief of the province’s police force described the events as “an attack” and, according to FranceTVInfo, “asked that Nice people remain cloistered.”
Multiple videos posted on BreakingNews.com showed people fleeing in panic, though the crash itself wasn’t shown.
There also were reports of gunshots, though fireworks are often set off on Bastille Day, making such early witness accounts questionable.
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Post by rickoshea on Jul 14, 2016 22:00:59 GMT
Sounds like sumdood took a 30' box truck and drove it through a crowd of people. Looks like the police put a couple dozen boolitz into the cab.
Spotty reports about 30 dead, 100+ wounded....passenger shooting out of the window.
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Post by rickoshea on Jul 14, 2016 22:21:05 GMT
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Post by rickoshea on Jul 14, 2016 22:52:30 GMT
Now hearing reports of 60.....73 dead....
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Post by omegaman on Jul 15, 2016 0:22:02 GMT
Hmmm...guess we should think about banning high capacity assault vans.
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Post by rickoshea on Jul 15, 2016 0:42:16 GMT
Hmmm...guess we should think about banning high capacity assault vans. 30 foot box truck!?!?!....Nobody needs a box truck longer than 10 feet.  |
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Post by Gingerbread Man on Jul 15, 2016 12:06:28 GMT
Enough.
If you're wearing a red sash, get the fuck out because it's time to skin the smoke wheels.
They need the man from Corsica.
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Post by dannusmaximus on Jul 15, 2016 16:25:26 GMT
Sounds like sumdood took a 30' box truck and drove it through a crowd of people. Looks like the police put a couple dozen boolitz into the cab.Spotty reports about 30 dead, 100+ wounded....passenger shooting out of the window. 
Love how the bleeding hearts blame the victim when it comes to Islamic terrorist attacks. |
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Post by Gingerbread Man on Jul 15, 2016 16:35:03 GMT
84 dead, over 100 injured.
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Post by rickoshea on Jul 16, 2016 1:56:01 GMT
Nice-Style Vehicular Terrorism Is Easy to Do, Hard to Stopwww.newser.com/story/228175/nice-style-vehicular-terrorism-is-easy-to-do-hard-to-stop.htmlAuthorities are hoping Thursday's attack in Nice, France, doesn't lead to a wave of similar vehicular attacks that are both easy to pull off and incredibly difficult to prevent. Back in 2010, the Department of Homeland Security warned of terrorists using vehicles to kill civilians at "sporting events, entertainment venues, or shopping centers," the Washington Post reports. "Vehicle ramming offers terrorists with limited access to explosives or weapons an opportunity to conduct a Homeland attack with minimal prior training or experience," NBC News quotes the department as saying.
One expert says this method of attack not only can be done by anyone at any time, but they won't need to first tip their hand by traveling to Syria, contacting other terrorists, or anything like that.
"Al-Qaeda and ISIS have both exhorted their followers to use any means to bring death," a counterterrorism expert tells the Los Angeles Times. "With limited access to explosives, large vehicles into large crowds are an obvious event.” In fact, both groups have recently suggested using vehicles as weapons.
It's a method that can be extremely deadly even when used unintentionally, as shown in 2003 when an elderly man killed 10 people by accidentally driving through a California farmers market. But the attack in Nice, which killed 84, represents a new level of carnage for vehicular assault. Three similar attacks in France between 2014 and 2016 killed only one person total.
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Post by LowKey on Jul 16, 2016 4:45:00 GMT
Nice-Style Vehicular Terrorism Is Easy to Do, Hard to Stopwww.newser.com/story/228175/nice-style-vehicular-terrorism-is-easy-to-do-hard-to-stop.htmlAuthorities are hoping Thursday's attack in Nice, France, doesn't lead to a wave of similar vehicular attacks that are both easy to pull off and incredibly difficult to prevent. Back in 2010, the Department of Homeland Security warned of terrorists using vehicles to kill civilians at "sporting events, entertainment venues, or shopping centers," the Washington Post reports. "Vehicle ramming offers terrorists with limited access to explosives or weapons an opportunity to conduct a Homeland attack with minimal prior training or experience," NBC News quotes the department as saying.
One expert says this method of attack not only can be done by anyone at any time, but they won't need to first tip their hand by traveling to Syria, contacting other terrorists, or anything like that.
"Al-Qaeda and ISIS have both exhorted their followers to use any means to bring death," a counterterrorism expert tells the Los Angeles Times. "With limited access to explosives, large vehicles into large crowds are an obvious event.” In fact, both groups have recently suggested using vehicles as weapons.
It's a method that can be extremely deadly even when used unintentionally, as shown in 2003 when an elderly man killed 10 people by accidentally driving through a California farmers market. But the attack in Nice, which killed 84, represents a new level of carnage for vehicular assault. Three similar attacks in France between 2014 and 2016 killed only one person total. Don't forget the female who intentionally plowed onto a crowded sidewalk in Las Vegas this last year. |
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Post by Browning35 on Jul 18, 2016 14:19:26 GMT
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Post by Gingerbread Man on Jul 18, 2016 15:19:04 GMT
Islamic Terrorism. They've done it for centuries.
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