Just What Is Going On Out There. ?

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http://news.sky.com/story/1659100/deadly-gun-attack-at-ivory-coast-beach-resort



http://news.sky.com/story/1659141/ankara-car-bombing-kills-at-least-33-people



Dave.

[Peter Pedant]

how is your O level Fransh /

http://www.lemonde.fr/afrique/article/2016/03/13/cote-d-ivoire-tirs-sur-la-plage-de-grand-bassam_4881994_3212.html

it geevz the french for 'shouting allahu akbar before shooting them';
and they say it is AQMI

al qaeda maghrebienne something else

[Jackdaw33]

The French version says that six attackers were killed according to the president. Google Translate says they were killed BY the president. The perils of on-kine translators.

[Peter Pedant]

midnight news are leading with Ankara
and No 2 is Grand Bassam

and then a litany of the six most recent lugzurious hotels which have been shot up

[youngmafbog]

It's called the Religion of Peace. Supported and defended by some on here.

[Gromit]

Two events totally unconnected.

The Kurdish people in Turkey want an autonomous country. It is a conflict similar to the British/IRA conflict in Ireland.

The terrorist attack in Africa is a terrorist group trying to destablise the country and kick off a civil war, which they can exploit. This tactic worked in Iraq and Libya.