French Tunisian and Kuwait Terrorist attacks {merged}

[Balti]

whilst I do feel for the Tunisian people who are going to suffer tremendously as a result of the economic hardship these events will bring I have to say part of the answer is in their own hands. If the were to condemn the people doing this and to tell the authorities about people and places where radicalization is taking place they would be showing that this is indeed " not in their name"

At the same time the irony is not lost on me of the million marchers in London and more around the uk who all told Blair " not in my name" and that made fuck all difference - in a supposed democracy.

I also accept that there is a time line that inexorably links those two events.

a small minority of the population marched

the vast and overwhelming majority of us did not of course

it now seems that 30 innocent Brits have been murdered in cold blood for the sin of going on holiday by some horrible warped murdering IS jihadist scumbags

sadly we can't kill enough of these IS cockroaches quickly enough

 

[Lucky13]

Just watching Sky news and the reporter has said that the Tunisian Government have stopped 12k people going to Syria, why do they stop them ?

 

[M18CTID]

Someone said earlier in the thread that Turkey will be next. I'm not so sure though because ISIS have been fighting the Kurds on the border with Syria in Kobane for months and the Kurds and Turks don't exactly get on. Would it really be in the best interests of ISIS to carry out a Tunisian style attack on a Turkish beach? Such an act would decimate the tourism industry in Turkey and piss the Turks off no end and their army is way more powerful than Tunisia's.

 

[r.soleofsalford]

Just watching Sky news and the reporter has said that the Tunisian Government have stopped 12k people going to Syria, why do they stop them ?

should stop them coming back

 

[Damocles]

whilst I do feel for the Tunisian people who are going to suffer tremendously as a result of the economic hardship these events will bring I have to say part of the answer is in their own hands. If the were to condemn the people doing this and to tell the authorities about people and places where radicalization is taking place they would be showing that this is indeed " not in their name"

At the same time the irony is not lost on me of the million marchers in London and more around the uk who all told Blair " not in my name" and that made fuck all difference - in a supposed democracy.

I also accept that there is a time line that inexorably links those two events.

True, just like we brought on 7/7 on ourselves because it was committed by mainly British people.

 

[warspite]

Just watching Sky news and the reporter has said that the Tunisian Government have stopped 12k people going to Syria, why do they stop them ?

It's actually nearer 17,000, there are also more Tunisians per head of population fighting for isis than any other Arab Country, estimated to be 4,000

 

[whp.blue]

Civilized Societies can never defeat terrorism.
They are held back by their own values and sensibilities What is needed is a realalization of this by Politicians and then they can choose to continue as they are and accept the fact that innocent people will be murdered in incidents like this or we throw away our own rule books and fight fire with fire.
Just like we did in Gibraltar with the IRA.

 

[warspite]

Head of Thomas Cook just on BBC TV, if you have booked to Tunisia up to the end of October you can change your booking to other destinations as from Today, about time they got their act together just need the other travel companies to do the same now

 

[Dubai Blue]

Surely some videos or pictures would have emerged by now that would show if there was more than one gunman. Or even just another witness who saw multiple gunmen on the beach.

Seems that a British woman has now come out and claimed she was shot twice inside the hotel by a man carrying a handgun, not an AK47. I've not read anything about Rezgui carrying a handgun, so her evidence certainly suggests there could have been someone else involved. Should be easy enough to prove one way or another.

 

[Helmet Cole]

Just watched a couple from Manchester on sky saying they want to come home now as it wasn't much fun round the pool and the hotel entertainment seemed like their heart wasn't in it.!!!
Lost for words

I think we've moved on from the Butlins red-coats and now folk just expect more and a greater level of professionalism from resort entertainers. I suppose the shootings will have put a downer on things though even if it does mean there is more space around the pool.