While I certainly don't think it will lead to this...
That attitude is ultra dangerous. That leads to us not seeing things coming. (and smarmy to boot)
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Russian ambassador Andrey Karlov assassinated in Ankara
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While I certainly don't think it will lead to this...
That attitude is ultra dangerous. That leads to us not seeing things coming. (and smarmy to boot)
Bruce Springsteen
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Holy shit at the possible reaction from Russia
So it goes when people are used to relative (domestic) peace, it seems. Many are anxiously waiting (consciously or subconsciously) for a war that almost feels overdue.
I'm definitely not defending the assassin as there was absolutely no excuse for cold blooded execution in the eyes of a rational person. However, I think a pertinent snapshot is already forming: A young guy who basically is/was a kid, seeing his friends/family/neighbors (literally) torn apart by foreign intervention and war. This isn't what war does to all people, but it IS what war does to (some) people. Growing up in places like that and seeing foreign flags on the assailants' uniforms/vehicles is what primes a person to become open to terrorist ideology.
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The photos are surreal, like a Hitman mission or something.
I mean the clarity and clean white gallery setting.
I mean the clarity and clean white gallery setting.
DXB-KNIGHT
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What happened to the Russian Ambassador goes against Dipmatic agreement, against Islam, against Human nature,
Yes what is happening in Aleppo is ugly and disgusting but how this will help the poor people of Aleppo and I don't think the Ambassador had a hand in million Syrians.
Yes what is happening in Aleppo is ugly and disgusting but how this will help the poor people of Aleppo and I don't think the Ambassador had a hand in million Syrians.
Bruce Springsteen
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This is like a plot from a COD game, RIP to the ambassador
Jezbollah
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Indeed.
Seriously
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Do you think the guy who is face down on the left in the last picture posted was hit by a stray? Or more likely just taking cover?
brandonh83
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For real.
No, the pictures are relevant to what is going on here. You are entering into a thread about an assassination - pretty disrespectful to expect the killing of this man to be sanitized for your consumption.
sazzy
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cartoon_soldier
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Erdogan better act quickly and pacify Russia.
I think in the video it showed him just shooting the ambassador, so this guy is probably just taking cover.
This is a major event. You'll likely see these pictures everywhere tomorrow.
Links would be fine and would not alter things in a negative way.
theignoramus
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Wouldnt surprise me if he was hit by bullets that went through the ambassadors body
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I hope no one else got shot.
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You couldn't see where the bullets ended up though, it was too zoomed in. Unless there's another video i haven't seen?
Raven117
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I mean, dude, you do realize this is a thread about an assignation right?
Don't go numb to this...this is our world...
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They definitely exited, you saw his shirt puff out in the video.
clockworkinyou
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Ridiculous to ask someone to not post pictures of that. This is a historic event whether he likes it or not.
NeOak
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What did you expect in this thread?
Majukun
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actually there was too much security there
Come on. This is reality, stop pretending this stuff didn't exist. The pictures are not gruesome, though I can understand them being disturbing. But again this is reality. If you don't want to see them, I suggest you leave the thread.
TheCochese
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It's the same event. No additional shooting.
It would make sense that the assassin was part of the security detail? He was a cop.
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I guess he was hit in the head, given the blood and how he just fall there lifeless
The dude who killed the diplomat was a part of the security.
Jezbollah
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He was shot in the back.
Bruce Springsteen
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And now the entire world hold its breathe waiting for Putin's reaction
he was an off-duty cop but he wasn't part of the security, reports indicate he just walked inside and mingled.
The shooter was a cop, but we don't know the specifics yet.
FantasticMrFoxdie
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these photographs are so vivid its scary
these photographs are so vivid its scary
Majukun
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we have a video and no he wasn't shot in the head..but he was shot plenty of times,that usually it's enough
d00d3n
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Yeah, there is a small but distinct pool of blood right under his head.
sazzy
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JohnTinker
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Thaedolus
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A direct hit to the heart is immediately incapacitating as well. I would think a head shot would have a visible exit wound
Fucked up incident.
This is a common misconception. WWI would not have happened if the belligerent parties didn't want to fight each other. The interlocking alliance system was a symptom of tensions in pre-war Europe, not the cause of it. The alliances were officially for defense only, anyway; more countries could have taken the Italian option and refused to join in an aggressive war if they had had the political will to do so.
This is a common misconception. WWI would not have happened if the belligerent parties didn't want to fight each other. The interlocking alliance system was a symptom of tensions in pre-war Europe, not the cause of it. The alliances were officially for defense only, anyway; more countries could have taken the Italian option and refused to join in an aggressive war if they had had the political will to do so.
From the video, all in the back it seems. The body goes into shock when it get shot like that. He probably got hit in the spinal cord with at least 1 bullet. I could count 7 shells in that picture (could hear 9 in the video).
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