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