All of us, every single man, woman, and child on the face of the Earth were born with the same unalienable rights; to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. And, if the governments of the world can't get that through their thick skulls, then, regime change will be necessary.
Showing posts with label vehicular jihad. Show all posts
Showing posts with label vehicular jihad. Show all posts
Halloween turned truly terrifying for students and parents Tuesday when a driver went on a deadly rampage in front of several lower Manhattan schools — right as the afternoon bell rang.
Kids ran screaming down the sidewalk after the killer plowed his van into pedestrians and then emerged waving guns and shouting “Allahu Akbar.”
“Two women and a group of children — maybe 10 children — they’re running towards me. I hear one girls screaming, ‘Someone has a gun!'” said witness John Williams.
Frantic parents feared the worst as they waited to pick youngsters up from Independence Primary School.
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Students from Stuyvesant High School and Borough of Manhattan Community College made it out of class in time to witness the carnage — bodies laying lifeless in the bike lane and victims were trapped inside a mangled school bus....
Over the next few days, we will, once again, see the same pattern: mourning with prayer vigils with candles, the placement of flowers, balloons, and teddy bears — and whatever else.
And, of course, the intoning of "Islam is a religion of peace."
Advice to accept the new normal and the mantra, "If you see something, say something."
In other words, after a few days or maybe a week, a collective shrug.
But I, for one, cannot become inured to all this.
I refuse to become inured to all this.
I must not become inured to all this!
Because, if I do, I surrender my heritage as a Westerner.
At least 13 people have been killed and dozens injured after a van in Barcelona ploughed into pedestrians before two men entered a restaurant with guns.
Pictures and video emerging from the scene show armed police and paramedics rushing to Las Ramblas, a busy tree-lined promenade in the centre of the city.
Horrifying footage from the scene shows dozens of victims lying injured on the floor.
Police have confirmed that 32 people are injured, with Catalonia's interior minister Joaquim Forn saying it is 'very possible' that the number of dead will rise because of the 'very serious' wounds to victims.
Gunfire was heard at the Corte Ingles store in the area after police announced a 'massive crash'.
Police officers were said to be negotiating with two attackers in a Turkish restaurant where they have taken hostages.
Officers were also searching for a second van the attackers may have hired as a getaway vehicle.
The civil guard has said the van used in the attack was rented by a man named Driss Oukabir, in the town of Santa Perpetua de la Mogada, El Pais reports.
MADRID (Reuters) - Two armed men have entrenched themselves in a bar in Barcelona's city centre after a van mowed down dozens of people, El Periodico newspaper reported on Wednesday.
El Periodico reported gunfire in the area of La Boqueria Market, although it did not cite the source of the information.
It was not immediately clear that the men were the drivers of the van.
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Follow-on attack against police:
per Fox a white Focus did not stop at a checkpoint, rammed a police officer, got out, fired at police, then took off.
Subway system in Barcelona shut down.
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Per Fox/Catherine Herridge the second van was supposed to be used in the attack as well but wasn't.
MADRID (Reuters) - A second van linked to an attack in Barcelona on Thursday has been found in the small town of Vic in Catalonia, local authorities there said on Twitter.
Police had cordoned off the area and were inspecting the vehicle, the city council said. Another van earlier mowed down crowds in a busy district in central Barcelona, killing at least 13 people according to local media.
Spanish media earlier reported that a second van had been rented as a getaway car by attackers.
AOW herewith an update indicating that another vehicle and occupants involved in the terror attack in Las Rambla in Barcelona were stopped several miles away at a police checkpoint:
...19:00 There are conflicting reports from Spanish media on the status of the person shot by security forces in Sant Just Desvern after running over police at a checkpoint. Some outlets say the suspect was injured, others say he was shot dead.
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18:43 Police have confirmed that police exchanged fire with the driver of a Ford Focus that failed to stop at a police checkpoint.
18:38 La Vanguardia and TV-3 are reporting that one of the suspects has died in a shootout with police....
La Rambla, which dates back to the Middle Ages as a marketplace, is a major tourist area in Barcelona. La Rambla on a typical day:
The poet Federico García Lorca referred to La Rambla as "the only street in the world which I wish would never end."
Perhaps somebody else here at IBA has posted about this, and I missed the posting:
Driver Shouting 'Allahu Akbar!' Runs Down 11 French Pedestrians
A driver screaming "Allahu Akbar!" (Arabic for "God is great") appeared to deliberately mow down about a dozen pedestrians in the French city of Dijon before being arrested on Sunday, officials said.
The driver, who was in his forties, hit groups of pedestrians in five parts of the eastern city before being arrested, a spokesman for the Ministry of the Interior said on French television. Eleven people in all were injured, two of them seriously, officials said.
According to testimonies on the scene, the driver also invoked "the children of Palestine"' to explain his actions, the ministry's spokesman said. France's Interior Ministry Spokesman Pierre Henry Brandet said "the man acted alone," and that the suspect was known to police for crimes committed in the 1990s. A day earlier, French police in a Tours suburb shot and killed a man also shouting "Allahu Akbar" who had stabbed and wounded three officers in a police station.
