Dear God. All I am left to do at this moment is...
pray.
My wife and I were talking before we left Germany last summer that the Christmas markets would be a prime target for terrorism this year.That's a safe bet: lots of people in a relatively small space (a city block, a town square, etc.) celebrating an infidel holiday. No jihadist could resist. **nononono*
Assuming that's what it is in this instance looks like my prediction sadly came true.
In any incident like this, in America or in anywhere in Europe, the longer the authorities wait to release the names of the people involved, the more you can be sure they are Muslims.
In any incident like this, in America or in anywhere in Europe, the longer the authorities wait to release the names of the people involved, the more you can be sure they are Muslims.
I hate when the press releases statements like, "There are nine dead at the scene." and they do not mention until later that one of the 'nine' they are referring to is one of the terrorists. So, there were really only eight actual human beings killed, plus one filthy terrorist.
Truck that ploughed through Berlin Christmas market was STOLEN from a construction site, police reveal
Truck drove into busy square in Berlin today killing nine and injuring 50 people
Eyewitnesses say it was deliberate and police are investigating if it was terrorist
But registered driver's firm owner says he has 'total confidence' it was not him
They lost contact hours before and police have now confirmed truck was stolen
By James Dunn For Mailonline
Published: 16:59 EST, 19 December 2016 | Updated: 20:28 EST, 19 December 2016
The 25-tonne truck that killed 12 people and injured 48 as it careered through a Christmas market in Berlin had been stolen from a construction site, police have revealed.
The suspect thought to have been driving - believed to be a refugee - was arrested shortly after the tragedy at a nearby zoo, while another unidentified man was found dead in the cab.
The arrest fuels fears for the Polish man who was registered as the driver, as his firm's owner said he had 'total confidence' he was not behind the wheel during the Nice-style massacre this afternoon.
- http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4049822/Was-truck-HIJACKED-Cousin-driver-registered-Polish-lorry-claims-making-drop-Berlin-s-revealed-haulage-firm-lost-contact-moments-crash.html
Stayed in a hotel nearby Kaiser Wilhelm Church. Its now a monument, having been partially demolished in WWII. Ironic spot for a terrorist attack.
“We have the wrong man, and thus a new situation,” police said in a statement. “The capital’s preparedness police and the special forces have been informed.”
Ouch.
Merkel: ‘Particularly Painful’ If Refugee Was Behind Berlin Massacre
Jacob Bojesson
Foreign Correspondent
7:43 AM 12/20/2016
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German Chancellor Angela Merkel attends a news conference in Berlin, Germany, April 6, 2016. REUTERS/Hannibal Hanschke/File Photo German Chancellor Angela Merkel attends a news conference in Berlin, Germany, April 6, 2016. REUTERS/Hannibal Hanschke/File Photo
German Chancellor Angela Merkel thinks Monday’s terror attack on a Christmas market in Berlin is particularly painful if the perpetrator “came to Germany for protection and asylum.”
I don't understand how it could happen that they would lose the suspect. If the photos I saw were from this incident, somebody managed to pump a lot of rounds through the windshield of that truck.
I don't understand how it could happen that they would lose the suspect. If the photos I saw were from this incident, somebody managed to pump a lot of rounds through the windshield of that truck.
Berlin can expect more. I read somewhere this A.M. that Berlin has been voted the best and happiest place for gays to live in the world. That information won't be appreciated by the "refugees." :osama:
@rangerrebewrebew
IOW,she's more concerned about her political career and payoffs form letting Muslims into Germany than she is people being murdered by them.
Do you think she may be distantly related to Madam Clinton? :silly:
Maybe the police are trying to help Frau Merkel with the "pain" by announcing they have caught the wrong person. I wonder if we will suddenly discover the "right" person is European? :pondering:I'd wager that would be extremely helpful, from Merkel's and Obammy's point of view.
If they've released him...it's only in a 'physical' sense.Let's hope so. If they don't, they need to put the Keystone cops in charge.
They're betting he will lead them to more of his buddies. :shrug:
Do you think she may be distantly related to Madam Clinton? :silly:
Berlin can expect more. I read somewhere this A.M. that Berlin has been voted the best and happiest place for gays to live in the world. That information won't be appreciated by the "refugees." :osama:
Anyone who watched "Cabaret" would know Berlin has always been a gay mecca.How about Lou Reed's album "Berlin"?
How about Lou Reed's album "Berlin"?
How about it? It's a great album. "In Berlin by the wall", I've heard it a lot.
But probably others by him have more gay stuff in it.
It's one of my favorite albums. I don't think there's anything gay in it. It's just one of my favorite albums. Depressing as all hell though.
I heard Pink Floyd did a concert there on the site of the Berlin Wall. The crowd went crazy when they yelled "tear down the wall".
Also some great literature, I'm thinking of "slaughterhouse Five" and "Amageddon " by Leon Uris.
This is were governing by "compassion" alone takes a country.
Will we learn from it? No we won't.
Officials hunt for Tunisian asylum-seeker in Berlin Christmas market rampageFull story at USA Today (http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/world/2016/12/21/berlin-christmas-market-attacker/95691012/).
Kim Hjelmgaard , USA TODAY 10:13 a.m. EST December 21, 2016
BERLIN — German authorities scoured the nation and other European countries Wednesday for a Tunisian asylum seeker who is being sought in the truck rampage through a Christmas festival here that killed 12 people and injured 48.
Investigators don't know if there is more than one perpetrator at large. The new suspect emerged after police found documents in the truck belonging to a 24-year-old Tunisian national identified only as Anis A, the German magazine Spiegel reported on its website. Some media reported that he is 21 years old.
A Tunisian official told the Associated Press the suspect's full name is Anis Amri.
Interior Minister Thomas de Maiziere confirmed that authorities are seeking a new suspect, but gave no details about the suspect's identity. He said the search extended to other countries in Europe's border free zone.
"This is a suspect, not necessarily the perpetrator. We are still investigating in all directions," de Maiziere said.
German lawmaker Stephan Mayer said after being briefed by security officials Wednesday that the new suspect, whose wallet was found in the truck, is thought to be Tunisian with links to Islamic extremists. He said the man was apparently supposed to be deported from Germany earlier in the year. ....
Latest:Full story at USA Today (http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/world/2016/12/21/berlin-christmas-market-attacker/95691012/).
Well the year isn’t finished, but thanks to what looks to be the combination of the world’s most peaceable religion, a truck and a temptingly bustling Christmas market in Berlin I’m going to have reprise my most frequently written piece of recent years. So here we go again.
On Monday night a truck was driven into a busy pedestrian area in Berlin. In the immediate aftermath the media were understandably wary. It could be a Glasgow-like accident or it could be a deliberate act. Struggling with this conundrum the BBC plumped for ‘Lorry kills nine at Christmas market.’ Naughty lorry.
To date the attack still doesn’t have a hashtag that’s stuck. There was an early push for ‘Ich bin ein Berliner’, but for some reason it didn’t catch. Perhaps it would be better to simply add Berlin to that growing list of cities we are meant to urge other people to ‘pray’ for (Paris, Brussels, Paris again, Orlando, etc, etc.)?
Happily for some, there was a glimmer of hope on Monday night when it transpired that the guilty truck had a Polish number plate and a Polish registered driver. But then it turned out that the Polish truck appeared to have been hijacked and the driver was lying dead in the truck with a bullet wound to the head among other mortal injuries so he couldn’t easily be blamed. You almost felt bad for all the ‘anti-fascist’ groups gearing up to blame all Poles, white people in general or perhaps Donald Trump supporters in particular for their nascent racism, poor driving and the like. Alas they had to look away. For it soon appeared that the suspect was a Pakistani migrant who arrived in Germany last year. At this stage any normal person would ask why a Pakistani migrant should have ended up in Germany in 2015. Were there too few Pakistani migrants already in Germany? Did the country need more? And why Pakistan? Is the country a war-zone like Bangladesh, Afghanistan, Syria, Iraq, Eritrea, Nigeria, Morocco and Burma, to name just a few of the countries that Europeans have been told are our responsibility and whose populations as a result deserve assisted passage into our continent? ...
At the present moment the Pakistani migrant has been released and seems to have been arrested because he ‘fitted the description’ of the attacker. Meanwhile Isis, or ‘so-called Islamic State’ or ‘so-called Islamic, so-called State’ as our broadcasters and media like to call the terror organisation, has claimed responsibility for the attack. We shall see whether this was directed or inspired by them.
If it is then we will all have to watch out closely for the swiftly ensuing ‘Muslim good news story’. I haven’t seen one yet. ...
All this is not to say that the political class will not go into action. If this does prove to be an Islamist attack then in the coming days I would expect Angela Merkel to reiterate her recent call to ‘ban the burka’. The Dutch Prime Minister, Mark Rutte, will also doubtless once again back up this call. Meantime, most of the candidates for the French Presidency will publicly ponder whether the Berlin attack might have been stopped if the driver of the lorry had been banned from wearing a burkini.
At the same time the non-violent Islamists who work in European politics and the media will insist that we look at the root causes which make people drive trucks through Christmas markets in Berlin (‘Islamophobia’, Germany’s brutal foreign policy, trucks of certain designs) while non-Muslim commentators who haven’t paid attention over recent decades will insist that we find out ‘what the terrorists want’, with the unmentioned follow-on that once we work this out we can give them some of it. So drive enough trucks into crowds and sooner or later we can whittle down the number of Christmas markets, Jews, gays, polytheists, etc.
Of course for the foreseeable future anybody suggesting that importing millions more Muslims into Europe isn’t wise will continue to be regarded as a way-out-there crank who is in a very real sense actually causing the trucks to go into the Christmas markets. Leading us back once again to the logical conclusion that the only respectable response to importing millions of Muslims into Europe is to import millions more Muslims into Europe.
Here we go again – but this time, Je suis Berlin
Douglas Murray
20 December 2016 10:09 PM
Spectator (U.K.) (http://blogs.spectator.co.uk/2016/12/go-time-je-suis-berlin/) - excerpted
Lots of very popular music came out about the fall of the Berlin wall.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5KcRl1p2waM
I hate when the press releases statements like, "There are nine dead at the scene." and they do not mention until later that one of the 'nine' they are referring to is one of the terrorists. So, there were really only eight actual human beings killed, plus one filthy terrorist.