[quote]By Euan McKirdy, Sheena McKenzie and Milena Veselinovic, CNN
Updated 1444 GMT (2244 HKT) September 27, 2016
[img]http://i2.cdn.turner.com/cnnnext/dam/assets/160927120015-dresden-mosque-bomb-attack-exlarge-169.jpg[/img]
Police stand guard Tuesday at the Fatih Camii mosque in Dresden after a bomb attack.
(CNN) Security has been stepped up in the German city of Dresden, following two bomb attacks on a mosque and a conference center Monday evening.
No one was injured in the attacks, which included two homemade devices, according to police.
The bombings come ahead of next weekend's German Unity Day celebrations, which German Chancellor Angela Merkel is expected to attend. The celebrations mark the 26th anniversary of the reunification of East and West Germany.
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[URL="http://edition.cnn.com/2016/09/27/europe/bombs-attacks-germany/"]The CNN article[/URL] (excerpt above) has pictures of both explosion sites[URL="https://archive.is/PGxQg"].[/URL]
[URL="http://www.mdr.de/sachsen/dresden/sprengstoff-anschlaege-in-dresden-100.html"]MDR (German[/URL]/[URL="http://www.microsofttranslator.com/bv.aspx?&lo=SS&from=&to=en&a=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.mdr.de%2Fsachsen%2Fdresden%2Fsprengstoff-anschlaege-in-dresden-100.html"]English)[/URL] has more photos and a map showing where in the city they exploded (✖) and where the buildings now additionally under police protection (𝓲) are, along with a bit of additional information regarding how the police handled it[URL="https://archive.is/UTQTJ"].[/URL]
[URL="http://www.lvz.de/Mitteldeutschland/Polizeiticker-Mitteldeutschland/Sprengstoffanschlaege-gegen-Dresdner-Moschee-und-Kongresszentrum"]Leipziger Volkszeitung (German)[/URL] has reactions, including an eyewitness account[URL="https://archive.is/Wwcz2"].[/URL] I ran an archive through the translator [URL="http://www.microsofttranslator.com/bv.aspx?from=&to=en&a=http%3A%2F%2Farchive.is%2FWwcz2"]here[/URL] (since it doesn't work with the website itself), but the automatic translation didn't turn out that well.
It's not really that huge news here as far as I can tell, in part being overshadowed by the US presidential debates even in Germany it seems, but this is getting a bit more worrying. I'm really glad no-one was injured.
(Maybe the reporting just hasn't started properly since the police only notified the press this morning. I hope the auto-translated German sources are alright. I couldn't find English ones that have the same additional information so far. If something is unclear, please ask and I'll translate the passage by hand.)
fucking
cant they just choose a different target at the very least instead of germany
[QUOTE=erkor;51124990]fucking
cant they just choose a different target at the very least instead of germany[/QUOTE]
I mean, it'd be nice if it wasn't anyone at all.
[QUOTE=erkor;51124990]fucking
cant they just choose a different target at the very least instead of germany[/QUOTE]
Who is "they"?
[QUOTE=Dolton;51125223]Who is "they"?[/QUOTE]
Whoever did the bombing? lol
[QUOTE=srobins;51125229]Whoever did the bombing? lol[/QUOTE]
No shit. I meant did he mean a specific group?
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I think "bombing" almost gives these assholes too much credit. Looks more like someone scraped together fireworks powder. Which obviously doesn't make it okay, but it looks more like this was done by some local pissed-off douchebag(s) rather than a properly equipped organization that wanted to cause serious havoc (which people may assume from the headline).
[QUOTE=Marik Bentusi;51126172][t]http://www.mdr.de/sachsen/dresden/anschlag-moschee-dresden-100-resimage_v-variantSmall24x9_w-640.jpg?version=3865[/t]
[t]http://www.lvz.de/var/storage/images/lvz/mitteldeutschland/polizeiticker-mitteldeutschland/sprengstoffanschlaege-gegen-dresdner-moschee-und-kongresszentrum/485957461-11-ger-DE/Sprengstoffanschlaege-auf-Dresdner-Moschee-und-Kongresszentrum_pdaBigTeaser.jpg[/t]
I think "bombing" almost gives these assholes too much credit. Looks more like someone scraped together fireworks powder. Which obviously doesn't make it okay, but it looks more like this was done by some local pissed-off douchebag(s) rather than a properly equipped organization that wanted to cause serious havoc (which people may assume from the headline).[/QUOTE]
'Attempted bombings' might be more accurate then, since the devices COULD've been constructed as bombs, but were so poorly done they merely started a smaller fire instead.
And if they were targeted 'muslim' buildings, then it's definitely done by the usually incompetent extreme right-wingers.
[QUOTE=Van-man;51126180]'Attempted bombings' might be more accurate then, since the devices COULD've been constructed as bombs, but were so poorly done they merely started a smaller fire instead.
And if they were targeted 'muslim' buildings, then it's definitely done by the usually incompetent extreme right-wingers.[/QUOTE]
Might be a bad idea to down play their competence.
They've been trying to buy arms and bombs from Ukraine, if they succeed/have succeeded they're positively dangerous.
[QUOTE=mdeceiver79;51126185]Might be a bad idea to down play their competence.
They've been trying to buy arms and bombs from Ukraine, if they succeed/have succeeded they're positively dangerous.[/QUOTE]
incompetent =/= harmless.
No doubt they'll keep on trying and eventually succeeding unless stopped, but bombs in question and targets [B]DO [/B]paint them as not the smartest.
[QUOTE=Van-man;51126180]'Attempted bombings' might be more accurate then, since the devices COULD've been constructed as bombs, but were so poorly done they merely started a smaller fire instead.
And if they were targeted 'muslim' buildings, then it's definitely done by the usually incompetent extreme right-wingers.[/QUOTE]
This one managed to push the door inwards enough to dirty the inside and the other one cracked a glass installation.
That doesn't exactly sound harmless, but it does sound like they were indeed a lot weaker than whoever did this expected.
There definitely was incompetence at play considering it took the perpetrator four attempts to make the one at the mosque go off. Unfortunately that's not always the case with these extremist attacks here though.
Nothing much more to say other than I hope these arseholes are caught. Extremism of all kinds is wrong and leads only to suffering.
[QUOTE=Dolton;51125240]No shit. I meant did he mean a specific group?[/QUOTE]
nop, generalized people that do this shit in general
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