Breaking: Explosion In Istanbul

ChillDoubt | 10:03 Tue 12th Jan 2016 | News

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In area popular with tourists, no link yet just flashed up on BBC ticker. Several injured NFD.

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gness

I'm so happy you've heard from him Khandro......we had a close young friend in Paris on the night.....playing in a band.....every minute waiting is an hour isn't it........xxx

DTCwordfan

mikey's probably getting his maps and Kalashnikov out now as to where the right wing are on here, AOG

Seriously, we all know there are extreme factions of both wings of politics - one could hardly say that the IRA were die-hard Tories...... SNP as well, mind you!

retrocop

Kandro
Very glad you got news of your son so promptly.Took 3 days to hear from mine in Egypt when he landed on the day a "bank raid went wrong" in the same resort he was staying at. :-(

Canary42

Sad to see the phoney patriot scraping the barrel for political propaganda.

naomi24

Mikey, //we don't know yet who has perpetrated this outrage//

We do. Some Islamic crackpot.

retrocop

Naomi
That narrows it down. :-)

anotheoldgit

Canary42

/// Sad to see the phoney patriot scraping the barrel for political propaganda. ///

Yes it must upset you intensely, when fact are put before the AB's number one quisling.

naomi24

retrocop, well we know it's not the Salvation Army! ;o)

ChillDoubt

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Glad the AB relatives of those nearby are safe. I agree with gness. My sister was living/working in London on 7/7. It took an age to contact her and tell her to get away from all forms of public transport, particularly as she had no idea what was going on.

retrocop

naomi24
retrocop, well we know it's not the Salvation Army! ;o)

How could we tell if they wore Burqas.I suppose the cornets and trumpets might give it away.

naomi24

retrocop, :o)

ChillDoubt, 7/7 was the worst day of my life.

retrocop

Last Friday was mine.

naomi24

retrocop, why didn't your son call you on his mobile - or you call him on his mobile or at his hotel? I don't understand why you were out of contact.

mikey4444

Retro....has your son still not contacted you yet ?

Pretty poor show if he hasn't, if you don't mind me saying so.

retrocop

He reckons he switched his phone off because he didn't want expensive texts and phone calls disturbing his peace. He said he switched on his phone to send a message of arrival and details of hotel on Whatsap which is free and "noticed" a load of messages and missed phone call from us and in-laws so decided to contact us.
He tells me he was unaware of a terrorist attack in the hotel down the road on the day of his arrival but was told by Thomas Cook Rep it was "just an armed robbery that went wrong and the local police dealt with it".
Now I am all for not spreading mass panic,alarm and despondency but I abhor the cynical way they allegedly were not advised that an incident did occur in resort and not to leave the complex to go shopping or sightseeing.
The F.O. here have given that advice but the Reps are to worried they will get loads of Brits wanting out of Egypt pronto and the company will lose money. Disgusting cover up.
My son of course is also feeling rather sheepish as he was advised by us of ongoing Daesh activity in Egypt and M.E and that his mother and I considered it crass stupidity and irresposible to take a 4yr old and a 10 month infant to a terrorist hot spot about 4 months ago when he booked the
holiday. Within 2 days our 10 month god daughter contracted a stomach bug and was given a £100 anti-biotic injection by an Egyptian doctor.The money is nothing but the health and well being of them allis paramount and I won't be forgiving the fact that they still went there. There are many more civilised places to go.