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What Does Turkey Attack Say About U.S. Image in Muslim World?

Feb. 1, 2013 7:40pm Christopher Santarelli

At 1pm local time Friday a suicide bomber blew himself up in front of the U.S. embassy in Ankara, Turkey, killing at least one guard and injuring two others. Turkish officials say the bomber belonged to a radical leftist organization, Ecevit Shanli, a member of DHKP-C, a Marxist Leninist terror group.

The Washington Times reports that the group is vehemently ”anti-NATO” and “anti-Turkish establishment,” with the goal of establishing a socialist state, according to State Department documents.

The attacks come as especially unwelcome for the U.S. which is facing tensions in the region with Turkey’s neighbor Syria, and threats for retaliation from Al Qaeda for U.S. and Europe intervention in Mali.

Author and former CIA intelligence officer Michael Scheuer joined ‘Real News‘ to discuss the attack, and threats the U.S. still faces in the muslim world:

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sURFNmADNESS
Posted on February 3, 2013 at 10:35pm
Anyone ever stationed in Turkey knows already they do not like America however they like our money and hate the alternatives. They make our Air Force paint new numbers on their planes if they reside on the ground longer than 24 hours. Playing a shell game with planes and hangers.

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watashbuddyfriend
Posted on February 2, 2013 at 3:34pm
Like ALL bullies; Iran, NKorea, Syria, Midland City, Alabama, and whereever, if you do not take care of them, and continue to let them go, you are inviting trouble!

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SamIamTwo
Posted on February 2, 2013 at 1:56pm
Oh and me pops said in the late 50′s, never trust a Turk…if he were alive today he would prob add that standard to all Arab nations.

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SamIamTwo
Posted on February 2, 2013 at 1:54pm
It’s the Communist Turks that are pissed at us for setting up deterrent systems in Turkey. Prob Muslim? I dunno…didn’t ask.

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- Freedomlover_US
  Posted on February 2, 2013 at 4:36pm
  The communist Turks? You do know they joined NATO to oppose Communism, right? And that they’re one of America’s most important allies?
  
  The attack was by a Turkish leftist terrorist organization, not by islamists – the bomb was meant to make Turkey look bad as much as to harm US interests.
  
  FYI, when I visited Turkey 2 years ago, I encountered no anti-Americanism.
  
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Secret Squirrel
Posted on February 2, 2013 at 12:59pm
The Arabs love us now.
“Get down!”
Ka-boom.

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- Freedomlover_US
  Posted on February 2, 2013 at 4:37pm
  Turks aren’t Arab.
  
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The Big Mick
Posted on February 2, 2013 at 12:37pm
AUSERNAME,
To paraphrase Han Solo: “Kid, I’ve been from one side of this Galaxy to the other and I’ve read a lot of stupid stuff, but I’ve never seen anything that makes me believe yours is not one of the most stupid.”
Let’s see we HELPED the Dirty Little Dark Age Barbarian Sandyknickers kick out the Sovs, so naturally they start to fly airplanes into our cities. We booted the raping and pillaging Sodemites out of Kuwait so naturally they want us out of the Mideast. We keep Saudi Arabia from being invaded so Naturally the want us OUT of….wherever. We protect Iran from the Sovs so naturally WE are “The Great Satan”. Yup, real Cogency there, AUSER.
The Sandyknickered Ragamuzzied, Dark Age Barbarian Patriarchal KLANbangers who abuse women, behead cartoonists, and execute teenage rape victims don’t hate us and INTEND to DESTROY us because we buy their oil—they don’t have to sell it. Or because we won’t let them kill all the Jews–Jews kick their camelhumpin asz anyway.
They HATE us and INTEND TO DESTROY us because OUR WOMEN wear Daisy Dukes, drink Jack Daniels, and do the boogaloo to Elvis driving Dodges downtown. As long as OUR Women CAN, THEIR Women might get “uppity” and THAT the Dark Age Barbarian Sandyknickers CANNOT have.

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The Big Mick
Posted on February 2, 2013 at 12:24pm
Thanks Rooster.
My Strategy for Winning the War for Survival Against Islamacist Hegemony is simple.
I have no military training but understand the concept of Strategic Centers of Gravity–Economic, Political, Military, Social.
This is a War for Survival Against a Dark Age Barbarian Patriarchal CULTURE, more DANGEROUS than the 3rd Reich and Imperial Japan, and the Core of that Culture is RELIGIOUS in Nature. Islamacism is the Distinguishing and Unifying Characteristic transcending Ethnicity and Geography.
Thus, the STRATEGIC Center of Gravity is RELIGIOUS, and THAT is tied Closely to Specific “Holy Sites”. These can neither be hidden or defended.
The Big Mick Doctrine for Winning the War on Sandyknickerdom is to Dirty Nuke the 5th most Holy Islamacist Site until the Inmom’s Grandkids’ Grandkids have to go to Prayer Meeting in Lead Suits. Then give them One Moon to bring us the heads (packed in chitlins) of every last one of the JihadiNazi KIN folk or Number 4 gets it like lopping off fingers with a cigar cutter.
We wouldn’t have to get to #3 before the Inmoms, Aszaholelas, Muffies, and assorted KLAN Chiefs were falling all over themselves to snuff their JihadiNazi nephews, bro-in-laws and cousins.

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- Dkoonz
  Posted on February 2, 2013 at 7:32pm
  To me it seems like the Islamic trash that left there little sand boxes to come play here in the USA and Uk are trying real hard to piss everyone off that cant ride a camel the way they do. It is to bad they got tired of killing each other and now direct there anger and frustration on us. Its time to round up and ship them back so they can start killing each other off again.
  
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wellright
Posted on February 2, 2013 at 11:33am
the first paragraph references this bomber as Marxist, left-winger. How will our Marxist in chief spin this to be caused by a you tube video, or GOP reactionism.

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desert buckeye
Posted on February 2, 2013 at 11:08am
They need to fear us. And they don’t! Not with one of their bretheren in the white house.
Hell! No one has paid the price for the Benghazi attack!

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- The Big Mick
  Posted on February 2, 2013 at 12:08pm
  d’accord
  “I am a Free American, let the Kings of the Earth Tremble!”
  
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Ceefour
Posted on February 2, 2013 at 10:47am
Yep,boys and girls, real pinko commies just like the ones nesting in the White House and scattered throughout our society. They want to destroy you to obtain their goals. There was a time when commies were found injail,hospital,or the ground. Fortunately for them we dom’t play that kind of games these days….yet.

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- Freedomlover_US
  Posted on February 2, 2013 at 4:38pm
  Please name one thing Obama has done that is Communist
  
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media-bias-steals-elections
Posted on February 2, 2013 at 5:32am
Diplomats around the world are going to change their thinking, because this is not the world where we helped strangers pull oil out of the ground to advance the liberty of personal transportation of owning a car, and powering the forklift?

The next generation of diplomats are having to deal with automated systems of warfare and destruction, not drilling for oil, and the failed policies fo the past, are just not going to work?

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media-bias-steals-elections
Posted on February 2, 2013 at 5:30am
The Russians have tried, the French have tried, the English have tried, the Chinese have balked at the opportunity for good reasons, and every dime that is spent on an Islamic state ends up supporting the religion of Islam? They don’t need assistance to carry out their goals?

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- roostercogburn
  Posted on February 2, 2013 at 9:56am
  Exactly, we don’t need to give them billions of dollars in foriegn aid every year either, they will hate us for free…
  
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The Big Mick
Posted on February 1, 2013 at 11:29pm
The Thoughtful Student is invited to consider which is more important.
Me worrying about what a Ragamuzzied bunch of Dark Age Patriarchal KLANbanging Sandyknickered BARBARIANS think of The Land of the Free, OR THEM worrying about what a Sovereign Free American thinks of THEM—-i.e. The Dark Age Barbarians being deathly afraid lest they pisz us off enough so that we will no longer tolerate their existence on this planet.
The latter I think. Our only concern should be to Terrorize THEM so badly that their Grandkids’ Grandkids will slit the throat of any of their own offspring at the dinner table who so much as whisper “Great Satan”.
I don’t believe in worrying about what they will do to us. I want them worried as He ll that we won’t allow a single one of their DOGS, much less their KIDS to LIVE.
The “War of Terror” should be a War OF Terror ON the Sandyknickers.

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- roostercogburn
  Posted on February 2, 2013 at 9:59am
  You do have a good point there, I have been saying for years that they have to fear us again, they have to be shown that there is NOTHING that we will not do to stop them, make sure they know we have NO limits.
  
  In Philippines before 1900 we had a lot of trouble with muslim terrorists,, they captured 50 of them, tied them to posts in a large circle, dug a hole, shot a pig, dipped bullets in the pig blood, then shot 49 of the terrorists and threw them in the hole with the pig and filled in the hole, they let the last terrorist go, and that one act stopped all muslim terrorists for many decades, if we only had the balls to do something like that today, imagine the lives that would be saved.
  
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aproudinfidel
Posted on February 1, 2013 at 10:10pm
Turkey may belong to NATO, but it is still a muslim country filled with islamic terrorist savages that want to destroy America and re-establish the muslim caliphate in Istanbul. Let’s keep that in mind when the administration calls them America’s ally and friend.

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AUsername
Posted on February 1, 2013 at 10:02pm
All they want, is our troops out of their country and that is it and if you do that, they will leave you alone, simple. They hate American and the troops because there murdering and invading their countries when they didn’t do anything to deserve it.

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- roostercogburn
  Posted on February 2, 2013 at 9:54am
  Why were the muslims on a killing rampage before the united states even existed??? Could it possibly be that is just how islam works,just look at what islam has destroyed in the last thousand years, look at what they will destroy in the next 10 years if they are given the chance, doesnt seam to mater if they are “extremist” muslims or “regular” muslims,, they all follow the good old koooran, and the kooran commands them to kill all non muslims, really no way around that one, and they are pretty clear on that as well.
  Makes me wonder if all of mooohamids animal loving had something to do with all of this crazyness.
  
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- wellright
  Posted on February 2, 2013 at 11:42am
  A wise man(SOLOMAN) says in Proverbs 1 verse 7: The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom, but fools despise wisdom and instruction. My old man always said “From fear comes respect”( I was raised by a D.I. First Sgt.)
  So, I agree . we need to put the ” fear of the LORD” (and US) into them
  
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- The Big Mick
  Posted on February 2, 2013 at 12:41pm
  Uphill climb there Rooster. You’re laying Your College Level Cogency on Auser’s 8th Grade mentality.
  good luck,
  but you are to be commended for the effort to try to get Ausser to see reality.
  
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