Saturday 27 June 2015

Triple terrorist attack

Fatal Friday: Scores dead after France, Tunisia & Kuwait hit by terrorist attacks


The body of a tourist shot dead by a gunman lies near a beachside hotel in Sousse, Tunisia June 26, 2015. (Reuters / Amine Ben Aziza)

RT,
26 June, 2015

Three fatal terrorist attacks on three continents within hours of each other have left officials fearful that a coordinated campaign of terror is underway, following last week’s calls for “a month of disasters for infidels” by Islamic State.

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On Friday morning, at least one individual drove a car into a gas processing plant outside the industrial city of Lyon in France. The perpetrator beheaded one person, and injured two others, before hanging a severed head with Islamist flags and Arabic inscriptions on the factory gate.

The attacker was captured shortly afterwards, with police looking for accomplices. French President Francois Hollande called the incident a “pure terrorist attacks,” while Interior Minister Bernard Cazeneuve said the suspect was "somebody who was in touch with [Muslim fundamentalist] Salafists."


A reported two gunmen then burst into a Spanish-owned beachside tourist resort in the Tunisian city of Sousse. At least 37 people, predominantly foreigners, were gunned down, though their identities have not yet been revealed.

No one has claimed responsibility for the attack, but Islamic State was behind the shooting of 22 people, mostly tourists, in a museum in capital, Tunis, in March.

In Kuwait, a suicide bomber set off explosives in a Shia mosque packed with 2,000 people during Friday prayers. At least 16 people are dead, and more than two dozen have been taken to hospital.


The Sunni Islamic State (IS, formerly ISIS) took responsibility for the attack on social media.

Radical Islamist supporters have flooded social networks with a celebration of the violence under the hashtag #bloodyfriday.

Last week IS released a message calling for a spate of attacks during the Islamic holy month of Ramadan, which lasts until July 16 this year, and turn it into a month of disasters

Politicians and intelligence services all over the world have been examining the links between the attacks.

"This is a threat that faces all of us, these events that have taken place today in Tunisia and in France, but they can happen anywhere - we all face this threat," said UK Prime Minister David Cameron, before chairing a meeting of the COBRA emergency committee.

"We have to deal with this poisonous radical narrative that is turning so many young minds and we have to combat it with everything we have," Cameron added, while insisting that he still believed that “Islam is a religion of peace.”

The White House joined in the chorus of reproach.

"The United States condemns in the strongest terms the terrorist attacks in France, Kuwait, and Tunisia today.Our thoughts and prayers are with the victims of these heinous attacks, their loved ones, and the people of all three countries," it said in a statement.

The New York Times reported that intelligence officials were in constant contact with foreign colleagues to ascertain if these were coincidentally timed attacks, or part of a co-ordinated plan, perhaps orchestrated by Islamic State.


With many European leaders in Brussels for the EU Council meeting, the Brussels police released a statement that their security is being guaranteed, but said there was no overall change to the threat level, which has been elevated since the Charlie Hebdo attacks earlier this year.

One man was reported to have been beheaded and some 10 others were injured in a suspected Islamist attack on a French factory in Saint-Quentin-Fallavier. 

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