Australian gunman opens fire in Christchurch, NZ mosque

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The BBC News have this on how the murders happened; at the Al Noor mosque he left and returned inside with a second weapon - killing forty-two.
Link:https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-47582183

Within this report is a statement by the police commissioner:

Bush also addressed concerns that police took too long to respond to the massacre, saying officers were at the scene within six minutes of the first emergency call, and disarmed offenders within 10 minutes. Police apprehended the killer within 36 minutes. A woman apprehended at the scene was released without charge. Another 18 year-old man arrested in a vehicle had been charged with firearm offences unrelated to the terrorist attack.

Link:https://www.theguardian.com/world/20...-burial-delays

A second article by Jason Burke on the interplay between terrorism and technology. He ends with:

In Tarrant’s world, on his live stream, in his own mind and those of his followers, he is a warrior, a racial hero, a leader but also, in a wider contemporary sense, a celebrity, if only for a moment. In a terrible, twisted way, he is not wrong.

Link:https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/mar/17/technology-is-terrorisms-most-effective-ally-it-delivers-a-global-audience

There is a thread on this theme and in 2016 another terrorist, in France, in a live Facebook broadcast confessed to his murders (in the last post). See:http://council.smallwarsjournal.com/...e-job-for-them

A Tweet from Facebook:

n the first 24 hours we removed 1.5 million videos of the attack globally, of which over 1.2 million were blocked at upload..

Some context on Christchurch, a city of 340k, which lost 20k inhabitants after the 2011 earthquake and the new residents. Plus the murderer drove 300kms to his target from Dunedin.
Link:https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/mar/16/christchurch-how-quiet-city-became-target-for-terror