Innocence Shattered In 2 Mosques
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Live updates: 49 killed in coordinated terrorist shootings at 2 mosques in New Zealand; 3 suspects in custody originally appeared on abcnews.go.com
At least 49 people were killed in a shooting attack on the southern island of New Zealand on Friday when a gunman opened fire inside two mosques.
The shootings in Christchurch, categorized as a terrorist attack, included 41 deaths at one mosque, according to authorities. Christchurch Hospital also confirmed it was treating 48 people for gunshot wounds, ranging from minor to critical. One person died at the hospital.
"It's something that we never expected to have happen here," Christchurch MP Gerry Brownlee said Friday morning on "Good Morning America." "We're a relatively small population, and while we are ethnically quite diverse, we live very peaceable lives. And this, as many have seen, has shattered our innocence."
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We can only hope that the suspects in custody aren't suffering waterboarding for information.
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Christchurch shooter 'launched attack to spark civil war in U.S.'
Published: 04:55 EDT, 15 March 2019 | Updated: 10:07 EDT, 15 March 2019
The Trump-supporting white supremacist who launched a massacre at a New Zealand mosque revealed that he hoped to spark a 'civil war in the U.S.' in his sick manifesto and described the American president as a 'symbol of renewed white identity'.
The gunman, who identified himself on Twitter as Brenton Tarrant from Grafton, New South Wales, Australia, livestreamed the mass shooting inside the Al Noor Mosque.
Tarrant posted a 74-page manifesto explaining the reasons behind the shooting, which is New Zealand's worst ever terrorist attack, leaving 49 dead and 48 injured.
In the document, Tarrant said that he supported President Donald Trump as a 'symbol of renewed white identity and common purpose' but not as a 'policy maker'.
The 28-year-old terrorist claimed he chose to use a gun over other weapons because it would spark a debate around the second amendment.
Tarrant, 28, also said that he chose firearms to provoke a debate about the second amendment that he hoped would lead to a 'fracturing of the U.S. along cultural and racial lines'
Tarrant added: 'With enough pressure the left wing within the United States will seek to abolish the second amendment, and the right wing within the U.S. will see this as an attack on their very freedom and liberty.
'This attempted abolishment (sic) of rights by the left will result in a dramatic polarization of the people in the United States and eventually a fracturing of the US along cultural and racial lines.'
He made repeated reference to being European throughout and said that his plan -which he said was two years in the making - was inspired by the Stockholm truck attack in April 2017.
He said he wanted to avenge those killed in that attack which was carried out by Uzbek asylum seeker Rakhmat Akilov.
Tarrant wrote that by using guns to commit the attack, it would fuel the debate over firearms in the US and lead to them being banned.
His other heroes include the right wing commentator Candace Owens.'Each time she spoke I was stunned by her insights and her own views helped push me further and further into the belief of violence over meekness.
His hope was that this in turn would spark a civil war and that 'eventually', it would lead to 'the balkanization of the US'.
Trump tweeted on Friday morning that it was a 'horrible massacre'. He has extended the US's full support to New Zealand as it reels from the atrocity.
President Trump decried the attack as a 'horrible massacre' in a tweet on Friday morning
Owens is yet to make a sympathetic remark about the atrocity and responded 'LOL!' with a crying face emoji when Twitter users pointed out she had been mentioned in his manifesto.
The manifesto also included photographs of white children and poems.
Tarrant launched the attack at Al Noor Mosque in Christchurch on the country's South Island at about 1.30pm as Friday prayers were underway.
At about the same time, what appears to be a second shooter opened fire at at mosque in Linwood, which is within 10km of the first attack.
Early reports indicated a shooting at Christchurch Hospital. However, New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern said the mosques were the lone targets.
She did confirm multiple bombs were attached to two cars belonging to the suspects near the mosque.
The explosives were disarmed before they could detonate.
NZ re-opens Terrorist Training Seminars
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New Zealand reopens mosques that were target of deadly massacres
A Jordanian prince and the family of a 3-year-old boy killed in the New Zealand massacre were among those who visited a mosque on Saturday when it reopened after a terrorist killed dozens there.
Crown Prince El Hassan bin Talal gave a heartfelt address and thanked doctors and first responders who aided victims at the Al Noor mosque in Christchurch on March 15.
Four Jordanians were killed, and a 4-year-old girl from there was shot but is recovering.
The prince hugged a man at the entrance. “He was crying deeply from his heart for a loved one he had
lost,” he said. “And I was saying, this is God’s will, be patient. Because only through patience can you endure.”
