IS suicide attack in Istanbul - Like it or not, we are involved

TERROR organisation IS blasted its way up the day’s news agenda yesterday by sending a misfortunate, and terribly misguided, 28-year-old Syrian sucide bomber to launch a murder attack on an Istanbul tourist destination.

At least ten people, nine of them Germans, were murdered in the atrocity in the Sultanahmet district, near the city’s famous Blue Mosque. President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said Turkey was the “top target for all terrorist groups in the region”. His country, he asserted, was “fighting against all of them equally”.

This attack will again harden attitudes towards immigrants and exacerbate the refugee crisis — which, of course, is one of the objects of the exercise for the bararians in IS. Without a refugee crisis, their dark-ages mission of destruction becomes more difficult and even less plausible.