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posted by martyb on Friday March 15 2019, @07:51PM   Printer-friendly

Australian Broadcasting Corporation

Christchurch shootings at two mosques leave 49 dead, Australian arrested in relation to terror attack

At least one gunman with a semi-automatic weapon attacked worshippers gathering for Friday prayers in two locations: a mosque at Deans Avenue in central Christchurch and another mosque in the nearby suburb of Linwood.

Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison confirmed one of the people taken into custody was an Australian-born citizen.

The ABC has identified Grafton man Brenton Tarrant as the man visible in livestreamed footage of the attack.
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Two improvised explosive devices (IEDs) were found on a nearby vehicle, but defence force officers disarmed one and are still working on disarming the second.

stuff.co.nz - Black Caps v Bangladesh [cricket] test cancelled after gunmen attack Christchurch mosques

The test match between the Black Caps and Bangladesh will not go ahead.

The Bangladesh cricket team escaped the Christchurch mosque near Hagley Park where a mass shooting took place on Friday. They were due to play New Zealand a short distance away at Hagley Oval on Saturday.

stuff.co.nz - live coverage

* A gunman walked into a mosque on Deans Ave, Christchurch carrying a semi-automatic weapon and opened fire. He live streamed the attack.

* A second shooting occurred at a mosque in Linwood.

* At least 49 people were dead as of 9pm - 41 at the Central Mosque, 7 at Linwood Mosque, 1 in Christchurch Hospital.

* 48 people are in hospital with gunshots wounds as of 9pm, including young children. Other injured went to medical centres.

* A 28-year-old man has been charged with murder and is due to appear in the Christchurch District Court on Saturday morning.

* He was arrested on Brougham St in a car which had explosives and guns inside.

El Grauniad - Rightwing extremist wrote manifesto before livestreaming Christchurch shooting

The man who livestreamed himself attacking a Christchurch mosque and murdering at least 40 people identified himself online before the rampage as Australian citizen Brenton Tarrant.

On a now-deleted Twitter account, Tarrant posted multiple photos of what appear to be machine gun magazines and a link to what is being described as a manifesto for his actions.

The 74-page document starts off quoting a Dylan Thomas poem, Do not go gentle into that good night, and then moves onto a rant about white genocide.

Tarrant outlines his motivations: including to “create an atmosphere of fear” and to “incite violence” against Muslims while offering up autobiographical details.

Also on BBC, Aljazeera, CNN


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  • (Score: 2, Touché) by Anonymous Coward on Friday March 15 2019, @09:20PM (2 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Friday March 15 2019, @09:20PM (#815081)

    Maybe leftists don't have a culture of target practice? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Scalise#2017_Congressional_baseball_shooting [wikipedia.org]

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  • (Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday March 16 2019, @12:14AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Saturday March 16 2019, @12:14AM (#815174)

    A Bernie Sanders supporter? That's still a supporter of capitalism, so it is only "left" relative to the reactionary orientation of the two major capitalist parties. Still rightwards of most Trotskyists, even the ones at Socialist Alternative (who think Bernie is insane for not using his mass appeal to form a socialist party independent of the Democratic Party... and then there is wswswsws and their rejection of parliamentarianism as a feasible method of proletarian revolution).

    If Bernie Sanders is "left," your political spectrum sucks. You're viewing the world with blinders on, seeing only the false, skewed dichotomies the ruling class wants you to see, because those false dichotomies keep you under control while letting you think you have a choice. (viz. "The matrix has you.") But I see why the original gewg_ gave up.

    Speaking of the Matrix... one of the underappreciated aspects of the sequels is that the myth of the "one" itself is another system of control designed to mislead. Instead of being a neat sci-fi thing like the matrix itself, the real system of control uses the oldest method in the book: propaganda (specifically, the myth of the "one" itself). The machines don't actually need special effects extravaganza. They just need to convince the humans that there is a method of rebellion (i.e. the Democratic Party), funnel discontent into that method of rebellion, while keeping it a tightly guarded secret that the method of rebellion remains firmly under the control and supervision of the machines. (Also sort of goes back to wswswsws' rejection of parliamentarianism.)

    The Seattle General Strike (and the road not taken that leads NO ONE KNOWS WHERE) shows that workers are completely capable of running a city without catering to untalented, unskilled, unproductive, parasitical MBA PHBs who only know how to create drama ("there is no money!" *coughbullshitcough*) and waste time with TPS reports.

  • (Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday March 16 2019, @03:05PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Saturday March 16 2019, @03:05PM (#815471)

    I saw a copy of the video that this bastard livestreamed during the massacre. He wasn't using the rifle sight inside the mosque—more like point and shoot. In the car afterwards, the fucker says something like, "I didn't even have time to aim—there were too many targets."

    I saw the video here. It's incredibly disturbing.
    https://boost.catbox.moe/bsckol.mp4 [catbox.moe]