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Bangladesh forces storm Dkaka hostage cafe
BBC News ^
| 7/1/2016
| BBC
Posted on 07/01/2016 7:59:19 PM PDT by Nextrush
Hundreds of troops are storming a café in the Bangladeshi capital Dhaka, where gunmen took at least 20 hostages on Friday, security officials say.
"Intense gunfighting (is) on," Mizanur Rahman Bhuiyan, of the Rapid Action Battalion force told Reuters. Explosions were also heard in the area.
Reports say several of those held are Italian, and some may be Japanese. The fate of the hostages is unknown.
The militant group Islamic State (IS) had said it carried out the attack.......
(Excerpt) Read more at bbc.com ...
TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: bangladesh; dhaka; islam; kenyanbornmuzzie; koranimald; muslims; religionofpieces; terrorism
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To: WENDLE
You are mistaken completely, the country now known as "Sri Lanka" is an island off the southeastern tip of India, formerly known as CEYLON during British colonial rule.
The country now known as "Bangladesh" is next to the NORTHeasstern part of India and was formerly known as "East Pakistan" after the end of the British Empire.
Sri Lanka and Bangladesh are different places:
Map of Bangladesh
Map of Sri Lanka
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posted on
07/01/2016 8:55:38 PM PDT
by
Enchante
(No lipstick on the PIAPS!! #NeverShrillary)
To: Nextrush
Reports say several of those held are Italian, and some may be Japanese. The fate of the hostages is unknown.For God's sake, why do people insist on vacationing in these hellholes? Yosemite is nice this time of year.
To: Enchante
You right. They all look the same to me.
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posted on
07/01/2016 8:59:48 PM PDT
by
WENDLE
(Make America Great again. Arrest Hillary.)
To: Nextrush
To: Nextrush
“Hundreds storming a cafe’’? Geez, how big is this cafe?
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posted on
07/01/2016 9:09:57 PM PDT
by
jmacusa
("Dats all I can stands 'cuz I can't stands no more!''-- Popeye The Sailorman.)
To: Rebelbase
Fox was quoting a Bangladesh official.
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posted on
07/01/2016 9:18:12 PM PDT
by
Mears
(Afrocentrism is "the invention of tradition"-----Hobsbawm)
To: Inyo-Mono
The may not be tourists but government officials.
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posted on
07/01/2016 9:20:00 PM PDT
by
Mears
(Afrocentrism is "the invention of tradition"-----Hobsbawm)
To: Inyo-Mono
Please do not blame the victims.
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posted on
07/02/2016 2:29:20 AM PDT
by
agere_contra
(Hamas has dug miles of tunnels - but no bomb-shelters.)
To: gaijin
They killed hostages who could not cite passages from the Koran before the raid. Any “hostages” rescued were Muslims the terrorists had spared.
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