David French:
The world just got more dangerous. A gunman shot and killed the Russian ambassador to Turkey and then stood over his body, shouted “Allahu Akhbar” and began ranting about Syria and Aleppo. I won’t embed video of the shooting, but you can see the entire thing here. Warning, the footage is extremely disturbing.
Early reports are often wrong, but it appears the shooter was a Turkish police officer:
According to reports the assasin of the Russian ambassador is indeed a security personnel and his name is Mert Altintas pic.twitter.com/lBezzoIMWV
— Ali Hashem علي هاشم (@alihashem_tv) December 19, 2016
We can’t forget that this incident comes just a little more than a year after Turkish forces shot down a Russian jet, and it comes after Erodgan has comprehensively purged Turkish security forces to allegedly leave only his loyalists on staff.
It would be foolish to spend too much time speculating about the immediate and short-term consequences, but it is simply a fact that this is a grave breach of Turkey’s responsibilities to Russia (at the very least), and if there was any official Turkish involvement in the shooting beyond the shooter’s own initiative, then the breach grows graver still.
They should have turned thjeir machine guns on him and turned hoim into swish cheese islam ISIS maniac
very big mistake on the terrorist’s part-never screw with Russia and never ever screw with Putin.
Islamonazis kill our ambassador and obama apologizes. Putin vows revenge. Seems link there will be some Friday gatherings. Bring out some snipers.
We are about to see the comparison VS the contrast.
After Putin learned his Ambassador had been shot he said this:
“ISIS will regret what they have done, this is not Benghazi and I am not Obama.”
OTOH, another Turkish male, perhaps also ISIS, attacked the US Embassy.
Hours after the Russian ambassador was shot dead in Ankara, a man was arrested early on Tuesday morning after firing a gun and trying trying to enter the US Embassy in Ankara. According to the Daily Sabah newspaper, the Embassy was placed on lockdown after the man, who has not yet been named, approached the embassy with a gun. He also fired at least one shot….
What has been Obama’s reaction?
So far only to warn Americans not to hang out at the American Embassy in Turkey!
I feel so much safer……not.
Time to turn all those terrorists training centers into smoking craters
Russian ambassador’s assassination in Turkey was organised by ‘NATO secret services’ and was ‘a provocation and challenge to Moscow’ claims Kremlin senator
Maybe we should consider filing that one under false news? No, wait… The assassination was because of false news. It’s that Western mainstream media that got everybody riled up, not the leveling of Aleppo by Assad’s Russian supported military forces. They are liberating the city.
Alexei Pushkov is blaming Western media for the assassination. Here’s the story, in Russian. If you’re using Google Chrome, a right button click on your mouse will bring up a menu allowing this to be automatically translated to English.
Russia has problems, despite the stellar leadership qualities of Mr. Putin. 30 percent of all deaths in Russia in 2012 were a result of chronic alcohol abuse. Putin needs distractions.
@Greg: Gee Greg, you have so much intel you should be hired instead of the CIA. Maybe you just think you know something. I sure hope you are getting paid to post your parroting. Otherwise, you should be on the comedy Channel.
@Randy: Col What do you think of Putin’s alliance with Assad and the levelling of Aleppo?
Are you one of the 37% of Repubs. who prefer the Russian Prez. to your own.
Do you trust our CIA and FBI.? Putin’s KGB?
Over/under on when Trump’s audit will be over– 4 years
I’ve noticed Trump has stopped with the “drain the swamp” as he simply brings in new alligators.
This guy can do a lot of good or create a hell of a lot of damage over the next 4 years.