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Footage: Arms Depot Exploded in Turkmenistan, Over 1,000, Including Children Dead
- Posted on July 18, 2011 at 9:05pm by
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Although it happened earlier this month, footage has just been released of a devastating explosion in Abadan, Turkmenistan. The blast reportedly may have killed over 1,000 people, many of them children.
According to reports, the government first blamed fireworks for the deadly blast, however, later reports claim it was in fact an explosion at an arms depot.
Although the government is allegedly restricting the release of information and has blocked the use of mobile phones and internet in the area, locals managed to film and finally disseminate raw footage of the incident.
(H/T: Business Insider)
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Mr.ManZ
Posted on July 20, 2011 at 12:43amAt least we will not be attacked by anyone or anything from that arms depot.
Report Post »dontbotherme
Posted on July 19, 2011 at 2:06pmOh, God please have mercy & help those people. What a tragedy. I wish I knew more, but It doesn’t really matter when so may were killed. They just need God’s help & our prayers.
Report Post »Bernard
Posted on July 19, 2011 at 1:18pmTurkmenistan is one of the key nations currently part of the SCO organization set up by China and the CSTO organization set up by Russia. Turkmenistan along with many other central Asian Muslim nations are vital for any global power wishing to play a crucial role in Asia. To date the US has been left out by sheer stupidity of past and the present administrations.
Report Post »As or the article in concern, I give my condolences to those innocent children even if they are Muslim.
azjeff1963
Posted on July 19, 2011 at 4:13pmGreat…then we WONT send any aid to them….we have children here at home we need to take care of.
Report Post »mohavegreen
Posted on July 19, 2011 at 11:05amGood muslims, keeping explosives close by and visiting often.
Report Post »tom
Posted on July 19, 2011 at 6:53amRegardless of who they are, it is sad and tragic, please pray for them.
Report Post »Eyeball
Posted on July 19, 2011 at 12:49amThe dummies should put those arms depots out in the middle of the desert.
Report Post »UpYourArsenal
Posted on July 18, 2011 at 11:21pmWhat’s black and brown and looks good on a liberal? A doberman.
Report Post »In The Right
Posted on July 19, 2011 at 12:47amI prefer my recently departed much loved female Rottie who hated the numerous census workers that repeatedly visited my home (six times) because I only gave the most basic info. Now I have an all black Lab/Pointer/Mastiff mix rescue who was adopted at eight weeks from my local vet, she’s picking up exactly where her predecessor left off barking at petition bearing Liberals attempting to approach my door.
Report Post »Bennie Franklin
Posted on July 18, 2011 at 11:07pmProbably started in a school on how to blow yourself up. Looks like it was a good demonstration.
Report Post »BIGJAYINPA
Posted on July 18, 2011 at 11:17pmSafe handling and storage of high explosives is obviously not something these followers of the mysoginist pediphile take very seriously. It takes a little more than an abiding faith in your false god to safely store and handle dangerous explosives. Anyone want to bet one of those pig loving followers of the false prophet was smoking in the ammo dump??…Just sayin’
Report Post »mrsmileyface
Posted on July 18, 2011 at 11:00pmI blame Michael Bay.
Report Post »ThoreauHD
Posted on July 18, 2011 at 10:58pmThey are muslim. I don’t care.
Report Post »Judeo_Christian
Posted on July 18, 2011 at 11:23pm@THEROUHD: You may disagree with Muslims, but aren‘t they God’s children too? To say you don‘t care because they are Muslim shows you are not exercising Christ’s commandment to “love one another.”. Christ did not put a disclaimer exempting Christians from loving their Muslim brethren.
If it was easy, we wouldn’t need a commandment to remind us!
Report Post »Mustangrider
Posted on July 18, 2011 at 11:55pmJudeo, the Nazi’s and Hitler were people too, and we dropped lots of napalm love on them back in the 40′s
Report Post »Dustyluv
Posted on July 19, 2011 at 2:11amJudeo….I am pretty sure when I read my Bible God wiped out His enemies a few times. If you don’t think Muslims are an enemy of the one true God you are a fool. Go ahead and love them all you want, they aren’t your bretherend they are your enemy that wants to kill you.
Report Post »dinadp
Posted on July 18, 2011 at 10:35pmWhile I feel bad for the injured & dead, I can’t help but be happy that an arms depot in a muslim country is no longer. There I go again – turning lemons into lemonade…..
Report Post »Chuck Stein
Posted on July 18, 2011 at 10:47pm“Always look on the bright side of life . . . “
Report Post »SandyfromChesterfield
Posted on July 18, 2011 at 10:29pmIs that a dog that you see running at the beginning of the first video? I thought Muslims did not like dogs? Poor doggy.
Report Post »dscon
Posted on July 18, 2011 at 10:46pmyep thats a dog..why? i dont know why he is there.
Report Post »but he knows when to bail when the stuff hits!
good puppy!
MIBUGNU2
Posted on July 19, 2011 at 12:28amDog had more sense than the people, the Pup was bookin in
Report Post »the right direction,,and people were just standing around..OOPS !!
TJexcite
Posted on July 18, 2011 at 10:27pmThat is how the world will end. A big flash of fire ball and the camera goes blank.
Report Post »eat-more-bacon-USA
Posted on July 18, 2011 at 10:15pmMuslims constitute 89% of the population of Turkmenistan.
Report Post »snidley-whiplash
Posted on July 18, 2011 at 11:24pmCorrection, now 82%
Report Post »MIBUGNU2
Posted on July 19, 2011 at 12:15amProbably bomb making classes, again !!
Report Post »N37BU6
Posted on July 18, 2011 at 10:07pmTerrifying… those poor people.
Report Post »semihardrock
Posted on July 18, 2011 at 9:51pmWOW those Aerial Drone attacks are working well. Shouldnt be hiding those Nukes! We see everything these days thanks to NASA and Google Maps!
Report Post »Redistributor
Posted on July 18, 2011 at 9:42pmWTF…why are children even near an arms depot?
Report Post »Iman Barak Hussein
Posted on July 18, 2011 at 9:49pmcool
Report Post »PASSIONFORCHRIST
Posted on July 18, 2011 at 10:22pmRemember, they use them as shields.
Report Post »Sean In LI
Posted on July 18, 2011 at 11:05pmPretty sure it was the secondary explosions setting off rounds that when everywhere.
If you set a bomb under 10 million bullets, good chance them bullets are going to discharge and head somewhere. If you noticed the cameraman looked to be less than a mile away from that thing, and there were people/cars/houses/buildings much closer. Maybe one was a school. All were well within range of rounds popping off randomly.
Report Post »thejackal
Posted on July 18, 2011 at 11:39pmHaving an arms depot of that magnitude in a populated area is beyond insane. Our munitions are in bunkers way away from the populace. @ Sean in Li, rounds that “cook off” in a fire don’t travel like it was shot from a barrel, they normaly just explode. When in heavy fighting occasionly, the gun barrel and breech of large full-auto guns, like the M-2 .50 BMG ect.,can superheat and melt through the brass casing of a newly seated round, causing the round to instantly fire. This type of “cooking off” will produce the normal bullet velocites and is quite dangerous.
Report Post »NeoKong
Posted on July 18, 2011 at 9:41pmWhat happened in the second clip….?
Report Post »Is the guy dead ?
AmericanStrega
Posted on July 18, 2011 at 9:48pmGood question. Would like to read a follow-up on this one.
Report Post »LadyIzShy
Posted on July 18, 2011 at 9:28pmwhat a shame for those peole and thier families. It was interesting how the government said it was fireworks and restricted video and internet, this can happen here as well
Report Post »BIGJAYINPA
Posted on July 18, 2011 at 11:13pmNot very likely. We restrict how near you can live to an ammo dump. We take the safety of our citizens seriously, unlike the followers of the psychotic, mysoginist pediphile…Just sayin’
Report Post »Legal Immigrant
Posted on July 18, 2011 at 9:17pmNo Smoking in the Ammo Dump is posted for a reason.
Report Post »cessna152
Posted on July 18, 2011 at 9:31pm” firearms do kill people… ban them all.”
Lead story title on the MSM
Report Post »sarcasticus
Posted on July 18, 2011 at 9:33pmYeah, but, that sign is in English.
Report Post »Nobody there can read English.
Chuck Stein
Posted on July 18, 2011 at 10:54pmA lot more can set off an ammo dump explosion besides smoking (or sabotage). Old explosives can become very unstable and a summer’s day can bring the heat needed for the first explosion. After that, the explosives will do what they were designed to do — explode.
Report Post »Armed Patriot
Posted on July 19, 2011 at 5:30amSorry cessna152, Guns save more innocent lives than they take and stop/end more crimes than they commit..
Report Post »LinkedIn G
Posted on July 18, 2011 at 9:15pmThere goes Stu’s favorite country moving up the Top 20 ladder.
Report Post »Michael
Posted on July 21, 2011 at 7:45amI‘ve shared Stu’s morbid fascination for this place for about 10 years. The citizens are largely victims of a cult-of-personality rivaling No. Korea’s Kims, Stalin, Mao, etc. The former ruler “Turkmenbashi” ruled the place with an iron fist, so not much in the way of Muslim extremism there. I think the militants are all either dead or in gulags. Things haven’t improved much for them since the old geezer had his final heart attack.
His successor (his dentist??!!), “Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedov” (anyone wanna try pronouncing that cluster-foxtrot of a name), hasn’t improved things much either. I don‘t think he’s built any gold statues of himself, but the level of repression remains unimaginable to us.
Report Post »AmericanStrega
Posted on July 18, 2011 at 9:14pmWhile this story is very sad and I am saddened by the lose of life. Why does th media think it prudent to always add how many children were killed? Aren’t children people?
Report Post »bikerr
Posted on July 18, 2011 at 10:40pm@AmericanStrega–I too am sad for this happening,as for being called children by the media, If they keep them different than real people then they can still support Abortion as a way to end a pregnancy .I.E. Death.
Report Post »AmericanStrega
Posted on July 18, 2011 at 10:48pmYou got a good point there BIKERR.
Report Post »Snowleopard {gallery of cat folks}
Posted on July 18, 2011 at 9:11pmMy God, it is incredible that anyone even survived — God help those who fell in the explosion as this footage slams home what kind of forces were unleashed in the explosion indeed.
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