A national minutes silence on Friday...anyone else think that is a bit odd?
A little, not amazingly odd, but it smells of Cameron randomly thinking it was an interesting thing to do.
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A little, not amazingly odd, but it smells of Cameron randomly thinking it was an interesting thing to do.
Then go.
https://www.gov.uk/foreign-travel-advice/tunisia
Your travel insurance will still cover you, the fco don't appear to believe there is an issue (note they have updated after the attack) and all the tourist areas are still safe.
Yes, Tunisia is less safe than the UK, but then it always was, along with places like turkey, Egypt and Morocco. The likelyhood of actually being caught up in an event is minimal, tbh with the number of police and military around now it's probably safer than ever!
Was in Morocco travelling a few months back and I was very impressed by the levels of security they had there am I'm sure Tunisia would have been similar but sadly it only case one guy to slip through for things like this to happen.
I was there over Christmas and don't really remember much security (Marrakesh and the High Atlas). Out in the less touristy areas/more remote areas there may be a bit more though!
Were there metal detectors in the words at hotel entrances and swarms of police in tourist areas?
Considering what Cameron said I'm guessing it's a political action designed to get those pesky laws he wants passed through.
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In Marrakech as with a lot of the more touristy areas the security is undercover and blends in well but as you say once you head out, particularly towards Algeria and the south there are plenty of police checkpoints and vehicle searches.
A national minutes silence on Friday...
No
a lot of British people were murdered. Minutes silences happen for all sorts of things. Why do you think it's odd?
I can see this kind of thing happening unfortunately.
If drugs can get sneaked into this country, so can automatic weapons. They just need to get into the hands of the wrong people.
People call the police racist when they target innocent black people on the streets for drugs without report, suspicion or evidence just because they look ghetto.
Who in their right mind calls police racist for acting on evidence or report of terrorist activities? And why the heck should the risk of being branded racist have any effect on whether police act on a report or evidence of terrorism???
You just sound like another brainwashed guy who doesn't really understand what's going on. I mean really? Being branded racist is a barrier to counter-terrorism operations? LMFAO.
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R.I.P All the victims and credit to the local Tunisians (most of whom are undoubtedly Muslim) for selflessly risking their own lives chasing down the gunman / trying to stop the carnage. I have to be honest I'd be running in the complete opposite direction as fast as my cowardly legs would take me!
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Now would be the best time to go.
All that security knocking around and hardly anyone by the pool or at the barbliss.
I was thinking the same 100 police padding around and cheap as hell holidays if you can find a plane to take you there that is....
1 guy 1 gun and now £10 000 000s of tourist trade lost in a country where 500 000 and 15% of GDP is tourism.
It's not unplanned the timing (just before main summer break for western europe) and coincidence of this attack it was well planned and is causing the correct level of panic
Goal for ISIS and way to destabilse the one north African state that seems to have got it right.
Well NO one knew that for sure and he still had a bomb / grenade as it's clearly visible by his dead body, but hey you carry on trying to downplay / discredit their heroism from the comfort of your armchair
Well NO one knew that for sure and he still had a bomb / grenade as it's clearly visible by his dead body, but hey you carry on trying to downplay / discredit their heroism from the comfort of your armchair
Did i say that?
Did i say that?
Sorry for being so short, I had you mistaken for one of OC's resident Islamophobes and now I have had a chance to read the entire thread I can see this is not the case. Sorry fella
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/wor...-formed-human-shield-to-protect-tourists.html
"you'll have to get past us and we're muslim"
Acts of courage.
RIP to the victims
"you'll have to get past us and we're muslim"
Acts of courage.
RIP to the victims
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So are the media massively downplaying this and not mentioning grenades/bombs etc or are these people just confused? They keep mentioning a single gunman despite a few people saying there was more than one. They've not mentioned that other bloke that was almost immediately arrested since the incident either.
Apparently the Police (and Labour held councils) are are bit sensitive about targeting the muslim community in case people start drawing conclusions from that. Like not all muslims are terrorists but a lot of terrorists are muslim.
Equally on the rape gangs in Rotherham, they were not keen on publishing their report on it in case people started thinking all muslims are rapists or that the Police were targeting one group.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...d-racial-tensions-ahead-General-Election.html
They seem overly concerned that political groups will make capital from such events, or they will alienate a community who are quick to blame them when their kids go off on a jihad holiday, but quietly ignoring what is obviously going on isn't too clever either.
People call the police racist when they target innocent black people on the streets for drugs without report, suspicion or evidence just because they look ghetto.
Who in their right mind calls police racist for acting on evidence or report of terrorist activities? And why the heck should the risk of being branded racist have any effect on whether police act on a report or evidence of terrorism???
You just sound like another brainwashed guy who doesn't really understand what's going on. I mean really? Being branded racist is a barrier to counter-terrorism operations? LMFAO.
Lol whatever we forever hear about police have to pussy foot around when raiding mosques - any other place of criminal activity it wouldn't get a second thought - and at least if I was 'brainwashed' it wouldn't lead to some atrocity or other.
Quite.
IS are not stupid. They are very media aware.
(You will have seen the "BF4" clips of IS soldiers in action I imagine. Even when they die, this will encourage "Radicalisation" rather than put people off. They know exactly what they are doing by posting this stuff on line)
Tunisia has a real problem. I don't know off hand what the ratio between IS activists and the general population is in IS controlled areas is. But I wouldn't be at all surprised if it was as low as 5% (Or even lower)
Join us, Be enslaved, or Die! is a powerful message and there are not that many people who would resist it!
(According to Wiki, Tunisia has around 50,000 regulars in its armed forces. I reckon 10,000 dedicated IS would Pwn them! (And I am not taking this lightly at all, it is very difficult for any sane person to fight an enemy that is really prepared to die
Unless the Tunisian government mounts a Maximum effort on this, I would give them less than six months! ) )