About one week ago someone I know at work said..I'm thinking of going to Tunisia for a holiday.. I said be very careful about going out there....Its a hot bed of extremism ....Little did I know that days later this would happen, but its been brewing after attack on the museum in Tunis.. People out there, need to get more clued up about these places.
I had a friend I used to work with who was from Sousse and he is out there now, I know he is connected with hotels but have no means of contact so am hoping he is OK, it's no surprise to me the actions of the Tunisians at the resorts in helping save people lives and r.i.p. to all the poor people who died
Her indoors keeps going on about going to Morocco but I think will finally end any interest she has in going to North Africa. My mate works in security in the Algerian oil fields and he's been telling me for years not to go anywhere near North Africa. RIP to the poor souls who died.
I went to Morocco in 2007 and that was a weird holiday, back then it seemed a bit on edge and as if anything could happen.
People may disagree but I wouldn't touch Turkey also! Why would you want to go to a place & possibly share a plane with someone who uses Turkey as the gateway to IS? I know the streets of Britain aren't safe but it's a lot safer then there! There's way too many other nice places to visit anyway!
30 of 38 victims are so far British. Apparently four are from the hull, East Yorkshire, northern Lincolnshire area. Terrible
You could get on a plane with a nutter going anywhere, I wouldn't change my holiday/business travel plans based on the remote chance of bumping into one. Two of the worst terrorist attacks were in London and Madrid, yet people rarely worry about visiting either.
I wouldn't disagree. Turkish police used water cannons on people at a gay pride parade. Erdoğan's a pretty nasty individual.
Would you go to Turkey? I don't mean have you been before! But would you go now? Knowing that you could possibly sat next to a wannabe terrorist?
I'll be going in September, as I always do, there's far more chance of me dying in a car crash on the way to the airport, than there is of sitting next to a terrorist on the plane.
I fly home from Turkey tomorrow. These nutters could turn up pretty much anywhere it seems, but Turkey isn't particularly any more at risk than anywhere else. People only really go to the West bit of it, and Syria is to the southeast. If you want to go to Syria, flying via the West of Turkey is a very slow way of doing it, given that it's another thousand miles or so by land. If you were to fly to Istanbul it'd be a lot more.
I was discussing this at the weekend. It's about perception. I've just arranged visits to London and Paris in the next few weeks. At no times did I reconsider based on safety, even though both have had terrorist attacks and are obvious targets. I was in Egypt earlier this year and felt quite safe but I wouldn't currently return. The land side security was good - went through 4 checkpoints during a 40 drive to the hotel, but I remember lying on the beach, looking out over the Red Sea and thinking 'what's to stop someone on a jetski?' It is an obvious security weakness that tragically has been exploited in Tunisia and will now need addressing in all North African countries before confidence returns. How safe people feel is as much about their perception of danger as security.
I can't help but think a large scale attack along the lines of Mumbai is around the corner. 40 heavily armed jihadists in half a dozen landing craft, something like a rigid raider would do, and it would be absolute carnage. Plenty of soft targets in that part of the world. There'd be hundreds and hundreds possibly killed.
For some unexplained reason someone is deleting my posts about IS fighters infiltrating the boats coming across the med...Therefore I quit....Get me off this board asap
