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Muslim registered as refugee a week before he murdered 11 in Istanbul

Jan 13, 2016 4:45 pm By Robert Spencer

He registered as a refugee, made his way to Istanbul, and blew up eleven people for the Islamic State. Solution: bring in hundreds of thousands more refugees. What could possibly go wrong?

Nabil Fadli

“Face of a killer: Turkish police release first mugshot of the Istanbul ISIS bomber who registered as a refugee one week before he blew himself up, killing 11,” by Simon Tomlinson, Sara Malm and Imogen Calderwood, Mailonline, January 13, 2016:

This is the face of the Istanbul suicide bomber who blew himself up in Sultanahmet square near the Blue Mosque and Hagia Sophia, killing 11 tourists and injuring 14.

Nabil Fadli, a 28-year-old ISIS member, had recently entered the country from Syria and registered as a refugee with Turkish immigration authorities in Istanbul just one week before the attack.

CCTV footage released previously showed only the back of Fadli’s head as he passed through the immigration office.

Flowers and candles marked the site of the suicide bombing, as Syrians living in the Turkish city gathered to pay their respects to the dead and injured this evening.

Earlier today, a Turkish tour guide revealed how she spotted Fadli ‘pulling the pin’ in Sultanahmet square, and shouted at the crowd of tourists to run, moments before the massive blast.

Sibel Şatıroğlu, who was wounded in the explosion, had been guiding a group of some 25 people when she saw Fadli before he detonated the bomb which killed 10 German tourists and one Peruvian, and injured 14, one who later died in hospital.

‘I was with a group of 20-25 people near the Obelisk. I heard a trigger sound. I realised it wasn’t a normal sound and I looked around me,’ Ms Satiroglu, who suffered a leg wound and hearing loss in the blast, told police according to WorldBulletin.

‘Amongst our group I noticed someone who appeared to be Turkish looking in our German group. He had a cleanshave face, with a small beard. I saw him pull the pin trigger, and I screamed for everyone to run. We started running as the bomb exploded’.

Witnesses say that there could have been many more deaths, had it not been for Ms Şatıroğl shouting ‘Lauft weg!'(run away) to the large group of German tourists standing in the square.

Fadli has been confirmed as carrying out the blast in the name of ISIS, and had registered with Turkish immigration authorities but was not on any list of known militant suspects, Turkey’s interior minister said on Wednesday.

Asked about a report in the Turkish media that the bomber had registered at an immigration office in Istanbul a week ago, Interior Minister Efkan Ala confirmed that the man’s fingerprints were on record with the Turkish authorities.

‘Your assessment that his fingerprints were taken and there is a record of him is correct. But he was not on the wanted individuals list. And neither is he on the target individuals list sent to us by other countries,’ Ala told a joint news conference with his German counterpart Thomas de Maiziere.

Meanwhile, Turkish authorities have detained three Russian men with links to ISIS in connection with the massive explosion in the Sultanahmet neighbourhood, an area home to some of Istanbul’s most popular tourist attractions.

At least 10 German travellers and one man from Peru were killed in the blast. Six Germans, one Norwegian and a Peruvian were also wounded in the blast, with one of the German nationals later dying in hospital.

Russia’s Consulate General in the Mediterranean city of Antalya has today confirmed that three Russians had been detained over suspected connection to ISIS.

Police also seized documents and CDs during a search of the premises where the suspects were staying, Turkey’s Dogan News Agency said. It was not immediately clear when the detentions occurred….

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  1. Mary Washburn says

    Jan 13, 2016 at 5:08 pm

    I wonder if he is enjoying all those virgins as we speak????? LOL. What a mess!!!

  2. Westman says

    Jan 13, 2016 at 5:09 pm

    How likely are suicide bombers to be on the “target individuals list”?

    It would seem that terrorists on watch lists are more likely to be planners who send the others out to die. Imagine how frustrated and despondent some of the immigrants into Germany will be when the reality of no job, no German language, and no willing German women sets in. They will be very suggestible by manipulators offering revenge on infidels, the paradise of accommodating women, and endless banquet, all for martyrdom.

    It seems likely there will many more suicide bombings carried out by “refugees”.

    • nicu says

      Jan 13, 2016 at 5:19 pm

      and mama Arab still lets them stream in : 3000 per day !

      They come here for Islamisation only and for benefits !

      Am glad that the police more and more speaks about what i really going on — hidden for many years , already !

  3. Walter Sieruk says

    Jan 13, 2016 at 5:10 pm

    It now a very fitting time to reiterate that wherever this Muslim jihadist ,who was so murderously violent in Istanbul, had come from he acting out in accord the instructions of the uses of deadly violence that is part of the teaching of the Koran. As found in for example 9;11,123 . The Koran ,of course is the very foundation of and for Islam. Thus a good and valid point was made by Thomas Paine in his book “THE AGE OF REASON which teaches that “Any system of religion that has anything in it that shocks the mind of a child, cannot be a true system.”

  4. Walter Sieruk says

    Jan 13, 2016 at 5:20 pm

    Concerning that Muslim “refugee” who was in reality a brutal and deadly militant jihadist. It’s one again a need to restate that his firm but blind faith in the Koran, 44:54. 55:56. 78:31., with its promise of some kind of brothel with many hours for him if he dies in the jihad for Islam as “martyr.” is an irrational and blind faith that is based on strong emotions and powerful feelings and not on logic or reason. So this is a reminder that Benjamin Franklin had printed in his POOR RICHARDS’S ALMANACK which reads that “The way to see by faith is to shut the eye of reason.”

  5. Walter Sieruk says

    Jan 13, 2016 at 5:42 pm

    With that fake “refugee” who was in reality an actual jihadist with murderous intentions it’s therefore an appropriate time to make the reiteration that this dangerous and deadly Muslim./jihadist was ,no doubt as deluded as he was brutally cruel. In that he must have had a strong believe in the Koran which contains the very strange and far-fetched doctrine of as sex-filled paradise with many virgins, houris for the Muslim male how dies fighting as a “martyr” for cause of Islam. This nonsensical, odd and outlandish Islamic doctrine of a sexual paradise with many houris may in found in the Koran in 44:54. 55:56. 78:31. This bizarre and weird Koran doctrine many many Muslim men to engage in terrible murdering actions of jihad violence. As seen in that Istanbul Islamic terror attack the results and murderous chaos. Therefore , it stands to reason that the French philosopher has a very good and strongly valid point when he had written that “As long as men continue to believe in absurdities they will continue to commit atrocities.”

  6. Rob says

    Jan 13, 2016 at 7:56 pm

    No wonder Turkey is reneging on the deal to stop migrants proceeding onward to Europe.
    The faster the terrorists can be funneled through to Greece the better.

  7. Linde Barrera says

    Jan 13, 2016 at 9:05 pm

    I think no non-Muslims should visit any Islamic majority country from here on out. There are many lovely works of art in many Muslim nations, but if a Muslim shoots or stabs any non-Muslim travelers/tourists, they won’t be getting their money’s worth. So they should spend their hard earned money in places where they at least have a chance to survive while on tour.

    • bernie says

      Jan 15, 2016 at 6:34 am

      As dangerous as Mexico, Guatemala, Haiti or South Africa can be, I’d rather as a tourist go to one of those hazardous nations than a Muslim-majority country, at least for the time being.

      Why kill people for 72 raisins when you can buy those at a store for a few dollars in most places?

  8. Dan Jones says

    Jan 13, 2016 at 9:52 pm

    454 Suicide Bombers Last Year…

    450 were Muslim…

    What are the odds??

    More End Time News At:
    http://www.shininginthedark.com/?page_id=3755

  9. gravenimage says

    Jan 13, 2016 at 11:45 pm

    Muslim registered as refugee a week before he murdered 11 in Istanbul
    ………………………..

    Another fake Muslim “refugee”. So far, they’ve been blowing up tourists, molesting and raping Infidel women, and shooting up nightclubs–and they’re just getting started.

  10. Dick says

    Jan 14, 2016 at 1:20 pm

    I’d like to know where he got his explosives. Must have been given contacts in country. Can’t see him going through the police registration process with the explosives.

  11. DJ Barry says

    Jan 16, 2016 at 7:37 am

    How many dead Americans will it take before we can stop our Government from bringing in these muslim terrorists? Islam is not a peaceful religion, it is a violent cult. A religion does not prevent people from converting to another religion at the risk of death, only a cult does this.

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