Bombings in Turkey.

UPDATED. October 11, 2:10 a.m.  95 and 200. No word on who did it. That's a suicide bomb, two?

I'm thinking bomb strapped to a person's waist, right, isn't that what you have in mind when you think "suicide bomb?" Look at that street.

That is a big-ass fireball. Looks like...I'm bad at this...100 feet in the air? If you click on that photo you can enlarge it and see that there is debris kicked up as high as, in some cases higher than the fireball.Two suicide bombs send debris 100 feet in the air like that, cause that fireball? Suicide bombs?

Here are photos of the Boston Marathon non-suicide bombing. The Boston pressure-cooker bombs were of course left on the street. So the blast would have gone into the crater, too, not just into the air. The Turkey bombers' bodies would have absorbed some of the impact, too. Obviously.

                                                              Boston.

Turkey.

                                                                     Boston.

Admittedly, I'm no expert and those are not apples to apples comparisons,...Oh, what the hell, I'm not buying it. I'm not buying that the bombings today in Turkey were suicide bombs strapped to the bombers in the usual manner. Car-suicide bombs, absolutely, but not body-suicide bombs.

                  -8:55 pm: 97 and 400 are now the totals for dead and injured. There is still no claim nor attribution of responsibility. The Turkish government says there were two suicide bombers.

At a train station. During a peace rally. 86 killed, 186 injured. Oh my God.


"A demonstration that was to promote peace has turned into a massacre, I don't understand this," said [Ahmet Onen, 52], sobbing.-IBN

Witnesses said the two explosions happened seconds apart shortly after 1000 a.m. as hundreds gathered for a planned march to protest over a conflict between Turkish security forces and Kurdish militants in the southeast.

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There were no claims of responsibility for the attack.

But the NATO member has been in a heightened state of alert since starting a "synchronized war on terror" in July, including air strikes against Islamic State fighters in Syria and Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) bases in northern Iraq. It has also rounded up hundreds of suspected Kurdish and Islamist militants at home.-Reuters.

College age people, students. Oh my God. "To protest over a conflict between Turkish security forces and Kurdish militants:" I don't know what that means.

Oh, such beautiful young people. Oh my God. "No to Islam and Islamists!!:" with them!!; "FreeKurdistan:" ?; "Victory for 'Rojava Revolution"!: ? "Anarchy is Love!" with them.

Oh my God, I'm sick.