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https://www.yahoo.com/news/live-updates-truck-plows-into-holiday-market-in-berlin-killing-1-200839852.html
Quote:A truck plowed into a Christmas market in Berlin on Monday, killing at least nine people and injuring dozens of others in what local police are describing as a probable terror attack. Officials said the driver of the truck was arrested near the scene and that the co-driver is dead. Yahoo News is collecting photos and videos from the scene in the blog below.
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Death toll now stands at 12. The passenger in the truck was killed and has been described as a Polish National.
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(12-20-2016, 12:25 AM)bfine32 Wrote: Death toll now stands at 12. The passenger in the truck was killed and has been described as a Polish National.
Polish passenger was shot dead by the driver, who was a 2016 Pakistani asylum seeker living in a refugee camp is the last I heard.
Interesting how when refugees are sold as an idea, they're all women and small children. When refugees are looked at in reality, they all seem to be men of fighting age.
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(12-20-2016, 09:34 AM)TheLeonardLeap Wrote: Polish passenger was shot dead by the driver, who was a 2016 Pakistani asylum seeker living in a refugee camp is the last I heard.
Interesting how when refugees are sold as an idea, they're all women and small children. When refugees are looked at in reality, they all seem to be men of fighting age.
The latest is that they may have arrested the wrong man:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2016/12/20/berlin-market-attack-suspect-named-23-year-old-asylum-seeker/
Quote:German police have said they may have arrested the wrong man over the Berlin terror attack, and the real culprit could still be at large and armed and dangerous.
"We must get used to the idea that he was possibly not the perpetrator or that he didn't belong to the group of perpetrators," Germany's chief prosecutor Peter Frank told a press conference.
Police urged people to remain "particularly vigilant" and to report "suspicious movement" to a special hotline.
"We have the wrong man," an unnamed police source told Welt newspaper. "This means the situation is different. The real culprit is still armed and can commit further atrocities."
I'm right there with you on the fighting age men thing; however, I have been told that they are the smart ones. It appears they may be smarter that the ones aliowing them entrance.
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(12-20-2016, 02:18 PM)bfine32 Wrote: The latest is that they may have arrested the wrong man:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2016/12/20/berlin-market-attack-suspect-named-23-year-old-asylum-seeker/
I'm right there with you on the fighting age men thing; however, I have been told that they are the smart ones. it appears they may be smarter that the ones aloowing them entrance.
Actually what you were "told" was not every "fighting age man" (btw, what 10-65?) was a coward that left his wife and children to die but rather some may have realized they were fighting a losing battle against a better armed opponent.
But I suppose that message gets confused in your snark-o-meter. Luckily you don't hold such things personally.
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They should know better than to publicly celebrate anything Christian related. 
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(12-20-2016, 09:34 AM)TheLeonardLeap Wrote: Polish passenger was shot dead by the driver, who was a 2016 Pakistani asylum seeker living in a refugee camp is the last I heard.
Interesting how when refugees are sold as an idea, they're all women and small children. When refugees are looked at in reality, they all seem to be men of fighting age.
(12-20-2016, 02:18 PM)bfine32 Wrote: The latest is that they may have arrested the wrong man:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2016/12/20/berlin-market-attack-suspect-named-23-year-old-asylum-seeker/
I'm right there with you on the fighting age men thing; however, I have been told that they are the smart ones. It appears they may be smarter that the ones aliowing them entrance.
Not that familiar with Pakistani refugees, so you two could be right. With other countries, it varies. According to the UN, Somli asylum seekers 18-59 are about even male-to-female. Minors account for around 30-35% of them. For Syrians, it's — last I saw — about 45% adult women and 35% children (under 17 YOA). I don't know if you can lump all refugees or asylum seekers together as guys 18-59.
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(12-20-2016, 05:58 PM)Benton Wrote: Not that familiar with Pakistani refugees, so you two could be right. With other countries, it varies. According to the UN, Somli asylum seekers 18-59 are about even male-to-female. Minors account for around 30-35% of them. For Syrians, it's — last I saw — about 45% adult women and 35% children (under 17 YOA). I don't know if you can lump all refugees or asylum seekers together as guys 18-59.
I know I tend to only lump guys 18-59 in the guys 18-59 category.
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http://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/germany-suspected-set-fire-homeless-man-44410724
Quote:German investigators are questioning seven young men who are suspected of trying to set a homeless man alight in a Berlin subway station over Christmas.
Six of the suspects turned themselves in Monday evening and the seventh was arrested after authorities released surveillance camera pictures and video footage of them in a subway train, police said Tuesday.
The suspects are between 15 and 21. Six are from Syria and one is from Libya, and all came to Berlin as asylum-seekers, according to prosecutors.
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(12-31-2016, 02:31 PM)bfine32 Wrote: Well perhaps that's because you've never seen a country engaged in Civil War.
As to the rest: The same tired, two wrongs make a right fallacy.
I have not...but I know at 15 maybe fleeing is better than getting killed.
And I agree with your second sentence. Which is why I wonder why you post them just because the word "immigrant" is attached.
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