12 year-old boy attempts nail bombing in Ludwigshafen Christmas market, City Hall

[oberliner]

Source: Euro News

A 12 year old German-Iraqi boy suspected of having links to ISIL has been detained in Ludwigshafen, Germany, it has been revealed on Friday, for failing to detonate a nail bomb first in a Christmas market and then near to the city’s City Hall.

On Nov. 26, the boy reportedly set down a backpack containing a bomb he made using fireworks and sparklers in the city’s Christmas market.

After the bomb failed to ignite, a passer-by on Dec. 5 noticed the boy hiding the bomb-laden backpack in a bush near the City Hall and informed police.

A bomb-disposal team disposed of the bomb. Police reports describing the incident say the boy’s intended bomb was flammable but not explosive. The bag in which it was found was also filled with nails.

Read more: http://www.euronews.com/2016/12/16/12-year-old-boy-attempts-nail-bombing-in-ludwigshafen-christmas-market-city-hall

[leftynyc]

1. 12 years old

I sure hope they're investigating his family. He wasn't born filled with hatred and the desire to murder innocents.

[awoke_in_2003]

4. How many civilians...

did we kill in Iraq? How many families faced tragedy because of errors and "friendly fire", being called "collateral damage"? You don't think some of those families are looking for a little pay back? Germany is an ally of ours.

[romanic]

6. I have no empathy for terrorists.

I don't give a stinky shit if the 12 year old became an orphan. It doesn't justify trying to blasting innocent people in the name of some sky god and his "prophet".

[awoke_in_2003]

17. Not saying you need to give a shit...

but sometimes actions have consequences. Is it right? No. As long as we and our allies keep killing innocent people (I'm sorry, I guess in the "civilized" world we call that collateral damage so we can sleep at night) abroad, the chance of further attacks is increased. Those people are in Germany because our military intervention have made Iraq a hell hole.

[Captain1way]

18. But isn't that exactly ....

What we did and Iraq ?

"Blasting innocent people"

I don't care who you are, how can you not feel for a 12-year-old boy being orphaned in an illegal war waged by the United States?

[leftynyc]

7. I don't make excuses for terrorism

Period.

[awoke_in_2003]

16. not making excuses...

I am saying it is not always the parents. Sometimes good people have shit head kids. Sometimes the actions of our government and military has consequences. Not everyone just sits back and takes it, and as long as we keep killing innocent people overseas, we will stand the chance of future retaliation.

[Captain1way]

19. Look at it this way

If I punched you in the face, and then you punch me back in the face, only one of us is the aggressor, and only one of us is the victim

Even though we both committed the same exact act , One was done and aggression, the other done in defense

[Marengo]

20. The civilians in the Christmas market are directly responsible for casualties in Iraq?

[Captain1way]

21. Way off base there ...

It would seem any terrorist attack would be targeting the nation of Germany , not specific people

When Al Qaeda struck the World Trade Center , I'm sure they wernt targeting Ralph and Betty on the 24th floor

[Marengo]

22. Your analogy in that case doesn't apply. Civilians in a Christmas market are not state actors.

This is an act of revenge, not self defense.

[Captain1way]

24. As if the ...

The WTC victims were state actors

It was an attack on the USA , not specific civilians , like most terror attacks, the people pay the price for the crimes of the state

[Marengo]

25. Once again proving your analogy of self defense doesn't apply.

[Ford_Prefect]

2. You've got to be carefully taught!

You've got to be taught
To hate and fear,
You've got to be taught
From year to year,
It's got to be drummed
In your dear little ear
You've got to be carefully taught.
You've got to be taught to be afraid
Of people whose eyes are oddly made,
And people whose skin is a diff'rent shade,
You've got to be carefully taught.
You've got to be taught before it's too late,
Before you are six or seven or eight,
To hate all the people your relatives hate,
You've got to be carefully taught!

Rodgers and Hammerstein, South Pacific, 1949.

[awoke_in_2003]

5. And sometimes the teacher is not the family

but the war machines of the so called civilized nations.

[NWCorona]

3. Only 12?

I'll be heading back to Germany in February and it will be interesting to see how the atmosphere has changed.

[oberliner]

8. Scary, isn't it?

What do you do with a person this young attempting a crime this heinous?

[milestogo]

9. Its always shocking to find out a child is a sociopath.

But it happens.

[complain jane]

10. I'm not defending the kid,

but who knows what he was subjected to to indoctrinate him to this mindset. Maybe he IS a sociopath, but maybe he's been raised by lunatics.

[milestogo]

12. Well, I think parents can make a child a sociopath

Personality disorders are usually rooted in bad parenting.

[oberliner]

11. There has been no diagnosis showing that this child is a sociopath

Brainwashed maybe?

[Yo_Mama]

14. He may well not be a sociopath, just indoctrinated in hate.

It need not be the parents, either.

At that age, rehab is not only possible but likely.

[littlemissmartypants]

13. Terrible writing, glad they detained him

"for failing to detonate a nail bomb first in a Christmas market"

Sounds like if they let him go it would be because he succeeded. Did I read this right? Crazy times made crazier by journalism. I'm going back to bed.

[oberliner]

15. They revised that paragraph

A 12 year old German-Iraqi boy suspected of having links to ISIL in Ludwigshafen, Germany, it has been revealed on Friday, attempted to detonate a nail bomb first in a Christmas market and then near to the city’s City Hall.

Maybe Euro News articles are translated from another language?

[LeftishBrit]

23. Thank god it didn't go off...

And anyone who is indoctrinating a child to commit violence and murder is absolute scum.