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2016-12-19 The Grand Turk
Russian ambassador to Turkey seriously injured TU after being shot in 'assassination attempt'
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Posted by Frank G 2016-12-19 11:42|| || Front Page|| [11135 views ]  Top

#1 WeirdDave at AOSHQ: "Anyone remember what happened the last time the representative of a major world power got shot in a (more or less) Balkan country? It was good, right?"

Snark of the day with diamonds and swords.
Posted by Frank G 2016-12-19 11:56||   2016-12-19 11:56|| Front Page Top

#2 ...Here we go. Our ambassadors might get killed with impunity, but Vlad don't play that.

Mike
Posted by Mike Kozlowski 2016-12-19 12:05||   2016-12-19 12:05|| Front Page Top

#3 He didn't do anything about the plane that was shot down on Erdogan's direct order.
Posted by g(r)omgoru 2016-12-19 12:24||   2016-12-19 12:24|| Front Page Top

#4 Condition updated to Tango Uniform.
Posted by Besoeker 2016-12-19 12:45||   2016-12-19 12:45|| Front Page Top

#5 Russian Ambassador to Turkey dies of gunshot wound
Posted by g(r)omgoru 2016-12-19 12:53||   2016-12-19 12:53|| Front Page Top

#6 We're lucky that Russians aren't paranoid.
Snark O'The Day
Posted by Matt 2016-12-19 12:57||   2016-12-19 12:57|| Front Page Top

#7 We're lucky that Russians aren't paranoid.

Matt has my vote for snark of the day.
Posted by g(r)omgoru 2016-12-19 12:58||   2016-12-19 12:58|| Front Page Top

#8 Vlad will have to put O's threats aside now and concentrate on a bigger problem.
Posted by Alaska Paul 2016-12-19 12:58||   2016-12-19 12:58|| Front Page Top

#9 I suspect Edrogan is involved and assumes the Russians aren't going to do more than talk.
Posted by Silentbrick 2016-12-19 13:00||   2016-12-19 13:00|| Front Page Top

#10 22 year old Turkish copper, according to reports.
Posted by M. Murcek 2016-12-19 13:04||   2016-12-19 13:04|| Front Page Top

#11 Pi$$ed off the Russians were successful in Syria. I notice no Americans were tarveted.
Posted by gorb 2016-12-19 13:05||   2016-12-19 13:05|| Front Page Top

#12 Targeted. Where is autocorrect when you need it?
Posted by gorb 2016-12-19 13:07||   2016-12-19 13:07|| Front Page Top

#13 It is now reported that Karlov has died from his wounds. Picture of the assassin, who is reported to have yelled "We die in Aleppo, now you die here". Assassin killed at the scene by security forces
Posted by Frank G 2016-12-19 13:22||   2016-12-19 13:22|| Front Page Top

#14 
Posted by Blinky Big Foot2075 2016-12-19 13:24||   2016-12-19 13:24|| Front Page Top

#15 This will hurt Erdogan.
Posted by Herb Grumble7153 2016-12-19 13:28||   2016-12-19 13:28|| Front Page Top

#16 One can only hope.
Posted by Whiskey Mike 2016-12-19 13:53||   2016-12-19 13:53|| Front Page Top

#17 Russians retaliate against Turkey. Turkey invokes NATO defense.

Question is, would NATO come to Turkey's aid at this point?
Posted by DarthVader 2016-12-19 14:16||   2016-12-19 14:16|| Front Page Top

#18 He's dead, Jim.

Saudi/ISIS/al-Qaeda Sunni Islamofascists are trying to drag the US into war against Iran/Russia/Assad in Syria

They KNOW that January 20 President Trump comes to power and will join forces with Russia to crush ISIS. Their only chance is to set these potential allies against each other.

Saudi money and influence has bought operatives in high places everywhere Turkey, US, CIA, Obama administration. They are cunning and well-connected.

We are at HIGH RISK from now to January 20.

PLEASE tell President Elect Trump to get on the phone to Vladimir Putin and say: wait till January 20

Turkey is in NATO: attack on 1 is attack on all. Russia must not retaliate until Trump gets in and we can kick that Sunni Islamist Erdogan out of NATO
Posted by anon1 2016-12-19 14:20||   2016-12-19 14:20|| Front Page Top

#19 Assassin was an Islamofascist - here he is pointing at the sky shouting Allahu Akhbar having shot the ambassador

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u9OVq27QGmY

Note he is clean-shaven. Shaved off his jihadi beard to infiltrate.

his behaviour appears as other sunni Islamofascists
Posted by anon1 2016-12-19 14:23||   2016-12-19 14:23|| Front Page Top

#20 Remember the KGB Response in Lebanon? I am sure that Putin does...
Posted by magpie 2016-12-19 14:34||   2016-12-19 14:34|| Front Page Top

#21 also Terror attack feared in Berlin as lorry ploughs through Christmas market killing at least two people
Posted by Bright Pebbles 2016-12-19 14:36||   2016-12-19 14:36|| Front Page Top

#22 Assassin killed at the scene by security forces

Rather convenient.
Posted by Pappy 2016-12-19 15:05||   2016-12-19 15:05|| Front Page Top

#23 3 Shot at Zurich Islamic Center.
Posted by Bob Cheter2825 2016-12-19 15:10||   2016-12-19 15:10|| Front Page Top

#24 Mods please note: Terror attack on Berlin Christmas Market
Posted by European Conservative 2016-12-19 15:20||   2016-12-19 15:20|| Front Page Top

#25 Sorry Bright Pebbles, missed your posting
Posted by European Conservative 2016-12-19 15:21||   2016-12-19 15:21|| Front Page Top

#26 At least 9 dead
Posted by European Conservative 2016-12-19 15:24||   2016-12-19 15:24|| Front Page Top

#27 Rantburgers are fast, European Conservative.

The Mirror article has been updating about the assassinated Russian ambassador as information comes in.

The dead gunman has been identified. An address connected to him and his family is being raided. While the Russian foreign ministry characterized this as a terror attack -- which of course it is -- they will go today to the UN Security Council about it. I can't imagine that accomplishing anything, and in the meantime a scheduled conference between Russia, Turkey, and someone else (Syria?) has not been cancelled, and Turkey is making soothing noises.

Question is, would NATO come to Turkey's aid at this point?

It was made clear after the Turks shot down the Russian jet that NATO would not get involved. The same principle could easily apply here.
Posted by trailing wife 2016-12-19 15:26||   2016-12-19 15:26|| Front Page Top

#28 Of course this is not a NATO thing.

We just came back from a Munich Christmas Market. The same thing could easily happen here. No security against trucks.
Posted by European Conservative 2016-12-19 15:31||   2016-12-19 15:31|| Front Page Top

#29 Don't worry about Vlad, he knows what is going on and what the game is. He knows what to do. He'll either wait till after the inauguration and smash Turkey like a bug or he'll do it the KGB way and leave a string of heads at key intersections all over Turkey...I bet the KGB is looking at ways to Tango Uniform Erdigon.
Posted by Sock Puppet of Doom 2016-12-19 15:31||   2016-12-19 15:31|| Front Page Top

#30 Meanwhile, our Kenyan master enjoys his Hawaiian vacation.
Posted by Besoeker 2016-12-19 15:40||   2016-12-19 15:40|| Front Page Top

#31 That's maybe the best he can do, as usual.
Posted by European Conservative 2016-12-19 15:42||   2016-12-19 15:42|| Front Page Top

#32 Your article is published, European Conservative. Active major jihad attacks get published no matter what time they occur.
Posted by trailing wife 2016-12-19 15:42||   2016-12-19 15:42|| Front Page Top

#33 Thanks tw. I would have posted earlier but I was out.
Posted by European Conservative 2016-12-19 15:44||   2016-12-19 15:44|| Front Page Top

#34 Shooter live on camera here
Posted by Bright Pebbles 2016-12-19 15:52||   2016-12-19 15:52|| Front Page Top

#35 Always welcome, European Conservative.
Posted by trailing wife 2016-12-19 15:52||   2016-12-19 15:52|| Front Page Top

#36 Two men were inside the lorry of the alleged terror attack in Berlin. One is dead, the other one has been arrested, @ARDde reports.
Posted by Bright Pebbles 2016-12-19 15:53||   2016-12-19 15:53|| Front Page Top

#37 Thank you, Bright Pebbles. You and European Conservative are making a very good tag team to keep us updated on the very latest.
Posted by trailing wife 2016-12-19 16:00||   2016-12-19 16:00|| Front Page Top

#38 Yes, excellent work EC and BP. Just glanced at the views, now at 332.
Posted by Besoeker 2016-12-19 16:10||   2016-12-19 16:10|| Front Page Top

#39 About Turkey invoking treaty. Depends. If Russia attacks after January 20 th, Trump will tell Turkey to get stuffed.
Posted by JFM 2016-12-19 16:19||   2016-12-19 16:19|| Front Page Top

#40 I think Putin will be much more subtle about his response than to actually attack Turkey. As someone said, there will be heads posted all over Turkey. The assassin's family and village will suffer consequences. The Russians do not have the same restrictive ROEs that Americans do.
Posted by Rambler in Virginia  2016-12-19 16:33||   2016-12-19 16:33|| Front Page Top

#41 The Russians do not have the same restrictive ROEs that Americans do

And they won't claim that their Ambassador was killed because of some cheesy video production.
Posted by Mullah Richard 2016-12-19 16:38||   2016-12-19 16:38|| Front Page Top

#42 Meanwhile, our Kenyan master enjoys his Hawaiian vacation.

Somebody needs to turn the TV to ESPN and show a bracketology program. Adult things are going on.
Posted by swksvolFF 2016-12-19 16:42||   2016-12-19 16:42|| Front Page Top

#43 Trump will tell Turkey to get stuffed.

Something Americans deal with this time of year.
Posted by Procopius2k 2016-12-19 18:14||   2016-12-19 18:14|| Front Page Top

#44 Don't forget our Kenyan Master just threatened Russia over the DNC hacks a few days ago.
Posted by 3dc 2016-12-19 19:04||   2016-12-19 19:04|| Front Page Top

#45 BREAKING: Report: Head Of Foreign Ministry Department Shot Dead In Moscow…
Posted by Blossom Unains5562 2016-12-19 19:47||   2016-12-19 19:47|| Front Page Top

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