Onion Rings!

"No matter which way you slice it, you see rings"

"early 12c., from Anglo-French union, Old French oignon "onion" (formerly also oingnon), and directly from Latin unionem (nominative unio), colloquial rustic Roman for "a kind of onion," also "pearl" (via notion of a string of onions), literally "one, unity;" sense connection is the successive layers of an onion, in contrast with garlic or cloves." Source: http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=onion


https://buntotinglibrarian.files.wordpress.com/2015/06/onion.jpg


The onion - and its rings! - has frequently been used as an analogy and metaphor for different aspects of human awareness and organisation. It speaks of the many-layered aspect of things. It may be worth being reminded of it, every time we cut into one, for the pot or frying pan, often accompanied by irrational and unavoidable tears.

Onions and their symbolism have been around for a very long time. It is said the ancient Egyptians revered them for their representation of eternal life. Apparently with other essentials 'for the journey', Pharaohs were buried with them.

Could it be that the onion particularly in transverse section, and its association with the after-life, was inescapably linked to the understanding of the universe as it then was - a series of concentric spheres with earth at its centre?




https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/3a/Ptolemaicsystem-small.png


THE COSMOS

It was an idea, ascribed mainly to the Alexandrian mathematician and astronomer, 'Ptolemy' (c. AD 100 – c. 170)  but much older in Greek/Arabic tradition, that held sway until comparatively recent times with the discoveries and theories of Copernicus and Galileo.

(It is perhaps worth noting that not until as recently as 1992, did the Pope indicate the position of the church over the Galileo affair might have been wrong! (Ref. 1))

Wikipedia states: Albert Van Helden has suggested that from about 1250 until the 17th century, virtually all educated Europeans were familiar with the Ptolemaic model of "nesting spheres and the cosmic dimensions derived from it. 

RELIGION

In the West, after Emperor Constantine - who in about 312 AD adopted Christianity for the Roman Empire - Ptolemaic concepts were admixed with Christian ideas of God, "the creator and sustainer of all things". This transformed into the idea that beyond the outermost and most distant sphere of fixed stars must be the dwelling place of God in a realm of timeless eternity. 


https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/archive/7/75/20090825023531!Atlas_New_York.JPG

Lee Lawrie's colossal bronze Atlas, Rockefeller Center, New York.

No doubt the visual representation of the Greek idea of 'Atas' holding up the world on his shoulders fed into the visualistion mix. (Ref. 2)

And here an illustrated image from a mediaeval manuscript no doubt used to teach early scholars.


https://www.pinterest.com/pin/527765650052667576/

Here's a more accessible version of it.



http://zebu.uoregon.edu/timages/cosmos.jpg

GEOGRAPHY

However the onion section can represent other aspects of life also. For example it has been used here by by Yupo Chan to represent spacial land-use issues. (Ref. 3) Prof Geerte Hofstede (1997) uses the onion ring to conceptualize the various various layers of culture - values, ritual, heroes, symbols. (Ref. 4) We hear a lot about "our values" these days, but no-one appears to be able to reconcile them with our actual national behaviour around the world.

PSYCHOLOGY

The onion and its rings was adopted by psychologists Irwin Altman and Dalmas Taylor in 1973 to illustrate their theory of social ' penetration', or how in social interaction, two people get closer through layers of psychological protection in the direction of intimacy. (Ref. 5.) "

• Orientation stage. 
• Exploratory affective stage. 
• Affective stage. 
• Stable stage. 
• Depenetration stage (optional).

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/c8/Onion_Metaphor_-_Social_Penetration_Theory.png

ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH

Dahlgren and Whitehead (1991) use the onion (and its rings) as a way of representing the complex factors and relationships that influence human health. (Ref. 6.)  It informed the Acheson Report (DH, 1998) (Ref. 7) and the Scottish Government's Equally Well (SG, 2008a). Some think it as the most effective illustration of health determinants, the promotion of which is a pursuit to which I have ineffectually devoted my life.


http://www.bridgingthegap.scot.nhs.uk/understanding-health-inequalities/introducing-the-wider-determinants-of-health.aspx

PHYSIOLOGY

Writers have also drawn attention to the way in which we can view the human body as descending 'rings' each with its medical specialisms: the whole body, its organs, cellular activity, the role of bacteria and viruses, gentics, chemical and atomic processes.

See: http://utahscience.oremjr.alpine.k12.ut.us/sciber00/7th/cells/sciber/levelorg.htm

http://imechanica.org/files/cell-tissue.jpg

PHYSICS

Similarly, and almost as a repost to the early cosmology referred to above, as science revealed more of matter, so the 'layers' were revealed from the substance, through molecule of it, to its chemical elemental property, in all its periodic beauty (and in this regard I would recommend Primo Levi's excellent book 'The Periodic Table' Ref. 9) through atoms and its even tinyer proton, neutron and electron particles, and sub-particles revealed by huge accelerometers buried deep within the earth, the composition likewise likened to the onion rings.

http://geologycafe.com/images/earth.jpg

As Robert L Wolke put it, "Even to many chemists and physicists, these concepts have never really become "reasonable." Familiar, yes. ... Or the earth around the sun. ... Or like the layer-upon-layer structure of an onion: No matter which way you slice it, you see rings" (Ref. 10.) Rather sums this article up! 

Perhaps chopping an onion will never be quite the same again?

REF. 1. From: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galileo_affair#Modern_Catholic_Church_views

"On February 15, 1990, in a speech delivered at La Sapienza University in Rome,^[72] Cardinal Ratzinger, the future Pope Benedict XVI, cited some current views on the Galileo affair as forming what he called "a symptomatic case that illustrates the extent to which modernity’s doubts about itself have grown today in science and technology."^[73] As evidence, he presented the views of a few prominent philosophers including Ernst Bloch and Carl Friedrich von Weizsäcker, as well as Paul Feyerabend, whom he quoted as saying:

The Church at the time of Galileo kept much more closely to reason than did Galileo himself, and she took into consideration the ethical and social consequences of Galileo's teaching too. Her verdict against Galileo was rational and just, and the revision of this verdict can be justified only on the grounds of what is politically opportune.^[74]

Ratzinger did not directly say whether he agreed or disagreed with Feyerabend's assertions, but did say in this same context that "It would be foolish to construct an impulsive apologetic on the basis of such views."^[73]

In 1992, it was reported that the Catholic Church had turned towards vindicating Galileo:^[75]

Thanks to his intuition as a brilliant physicist and by relying on different arguments, Galileo, who practically invented the experimental method, understood why only the sun could function as the centre of the world, as it was then known, that is to say, as a planetary system. The error of the theologians of the time, when they maintained the centrality of the Earth, was to think that our understanding of the physical world's structure was, in some way, imposed by the literal sense of Sacred Scripture....

— Pope John Paul II, L'Osservatore Romano N. 44 (1264) – November 4, 1992"

REF. 2. From: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atlas_(mythology)

In Greek mythology, Atlas (/ˈætləs/; Ancient Greek: Ἄτλας) was the Titan god of endurance and astronomy,^[1] condemned to hold up the sky for eternity after theTitanomachy. Although associated with various places, he became commonly identified with the Atlas Mountains in northwest Africa (modern-day Morocco,Algeria and Tunisia).^[2] Atlas was the son of the Titan Iapetus and the OceanidAsia^[3] or Clymene.^[4] He had many children, mostly daughters, the Hesperides, the Hyades, the Pleiades, and the nymph Calypso who lived on the islandOgygia.^[5] According to the ancient Greek poet Hesiod Atlas stood at the ends of the earth towards the west.^[6]

In contexts where a Titan and a Titaness are assigned each of the seven planetary powers, Atlas is paired with Phoebe and governs themoon.^{[not in citation given][7]}

Hyginus emphasises the primordial nature of Atlas by making him the son ofAether and Gaia.^[8]

"Atlantic Ocean" means "Sea of Atlas", while "Atlantis" means "island of Atlas".

REF. 3.

Location, Transport and Land-Use: Modelling Spatial-Temporal Information

By Yupo Chan https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=wULKzsjjepgC&pg=PA724&lpg=PA724&dq=onion+ring+analogy&source=bl&ots=xlk-ryUb51&sig=4nsgWSdSZ7Yd-x67rhlsUfK6uiQ&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiFqdHl6azOAhXkJMAKHU0pDXA4ChDoAQgbMAA#v=onepage&q=onion%20ring%20analogy&f=false

REF. 4. An organisational cultural perspective By Bob Waisfisz https://geert-hofstede.com/tl_files/art%20organisational%20culture%20perspective.pdf

REF. 5. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_penetration_theory

REF. 6. http://www.nwci.ie/download/pdf/determinants_health_diagram.pdf  http://www.bridgingthegap.scot.nhs.uk/understanding-health-inequalities/introducing-the-wider-determinants-of-health.aspx https://quizlet.com/107643478/chapter-10-the-physical-environment-and-its-influence-on-health-flash-cards/

REF 7. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acheson_Report

REF. 8. https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=uXe9CgAAQBAJ&pg=PA338&lpg=PA338&dq=%27onion%27+rings+Physics&source=bl&ots=IivsSak2Gu&sig=lK_mkQYcat2x-cAKdH9XTepCG68&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjNgtGD96zOAhWHIsAKHQxEC1gQ6AEIPzAF#v=onepage&q='onion'%20rings%20Physics&f=false

REF. 9. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Periodic_Table_(book) http://www.arvindguptatoys.com/arvindgupta/periodic-primo.pdf

REF. 10.

Chemistry Explained - Page 120

https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=IdbvAAAAMAAJ

Robert L. Wolkehttps://books.google.co.uk/books?id=IdbvAAAAMAAJ&q=%27onion%27+rings+Physics+STRUCTURE+OF+THE+EARTH&dq=%27onion%27+rings+Physics+STRUCTURE+OF+THE+EARTH&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwigveS3-KzOAhXBAsAKHUMSCLQQ6AEIUDAJ

 Ansbach Suicide Bombing - Issues (Updates)

http://bloximages.chicago2.vip.townnews.com/santamariatimes.com/content/tncms/assets/v3/editorial/2/7e/27e39fd4-4dbf-5155-90be-628820788b36/579573397bf21.image.jpg

NB: The word assets in the above picture title repeating a suspicious phenomenom seen previously in these so-called terrorist incidents.

I have just watched the ITV report on the Ansbach suicide bombing here:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GWuP21Pdinc. Published on 26 Jul 2016 

(Apologies: Try as I may, I am unable to paste a copy of the screen shot I made of the broadcast so no image of the young lady in question is available here, other than that below.)
"More about the Ansbach bomber and other images of terrorist attacks in Germany in recent days. Rohit Kahroo reports, with Tom Bradby in the studio." 

I have to say I watch these productions carefully and critically for signs of problems. I noticed Rohit Kahroo a graduate from Birmingham University, was appointed ITV's 'African Correspondent" five years ago and rather unusually it was jointly with US network NBC. 

He is now "the Security Editor for ITV News, concentrating on counter-terrorism and national security, both in the UK and abroad."  

Reading his brief profile here in connection with his promotion in 2011, in the Birmingham Mail (Here: http://www.birminghammail.co.uk/news/local-news/former-birmingham-student-rohit-kachroo-151166) was this: 

"Still only 28, he was diagnosed with the condition (Type 1 diabetes) three years ago. “I was driving towards Leicestershire to work on a story with the McCanns when I realised I couldn’t keep my eyes open for more than half a second,” he said. “So I stopped at a service station for a quick nap – and woke up hours later having missed that story." 

He was however the reporter for a McCann item according to ITV (here:http://www.itnsource.com/shotlist/ITN/2008/07/21/T21070841/?v=1) "LTN: CRIME: Madeleine McCann disappearance: parents no longer suspects 21 July 2008 Story ref: T21070841 Contains: 7 Clips Format: betamax" amounting in all to over two and three quarter hours. 

So to suggest he "missed the story" may not give a totally accurate picture. 

The intrigue surrounding the McCann story and involvement of departments of HM Government is well known and a bit of a red flag in relation to anything else. (See: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_yYwFnglhtw)

But in relation to the Ansbach bombing, the bit that interested me in particular was an interview with a stated "Witness", (at 1.13 m) a young woman in her late teens or early twenties, called Jana Vandenberg. She speaks with a pronounced American accent. In the exceedingly brief slot (it's obviously savagely edited nine (9) seconds in total!) she says: 

"... and then I remembered that my little sister was back inside so I ran back towards the entrance of the concert hall and I saw a man laying injured on the floor with blood on his face ..."

No information is given where she comes from, by whom she is employed (if she is), or why she and her younger sister were in Ansbach? Or indeed why she of all people was chosen as the "eye witness" and no others.

I have just (10.8.2016) managed to source this still from the NBC video clip (See below):


http://media4.s-nbcnews.com/j/msnbc/components/video/201607/x_lon_germanywitness_160725.nbcnews-ux-1080-600.jpg


There are several elements to this that I find questionable. It is not clear how long after the incident the interview takes place but her utter composure and undisturbed - both mentally and sartorially - appearance is worrying. 

True she doesn't claim to have seen the man blow himself up but she claims to have witnessed the immediate after effects, and she was clearly desperately worried about her"little sister" who may have been a casualty. Having been concerned about her no mention is made of her again which seem rather strange.

So the man on the ground "with blood on his face": is she suggesting that was the bomber? That would certainly be the inference I got from it. If so the account is quite preposterous. He was I believe described as setting off a backpack bomb filled with bolts and such like. Do you really think that a bloodied face would adequately describe the carnarge such a device would produce?

But perhaps she was instead describing one of the fifteen injured? If so why not a mention of them or more importantly the impact the bomber himself made on her? In no way is this a credible witness report. 

The question arises, was she in fact scripted or indeed what has come to be known as a "crisis actor" purely for the emotional impact on, and link to, the United States audience?

Searching the name on the internet provided only this at http://independent.academia.edu/JanaVandenberg which does look remarkably like the person being interviewed in the ITV footage. This young lady of identical name has this against it surprisingly: 

• Cold War8,223 People
• Korean War3,128 People
• Impact of the Korean War879 People
• International Relations1,089,429 People
• Political Science603,556 People

I have now discovered the same footage, but more of it - forty (40) seconds this time - put out by NBC. (Note the Rohit Kahroo joint arrangement with NBC above that looks as if it might still be in operation) This clip is self standing athttp://www.nbcnews.com/video/u-s-teenager-witnessed-ansbach-suicide-bomb-attack-731807811513 and provides a little bit more information. We learn she is sixteen:"16-year-old Jana Vandenberg was taking an ice cream break from a music festival when she heard the explosion in Ansbach, Germany". (Her white T-shirt has 'California' embroidered on it.) Actually she doesn't say they were having an icecream but rather that "they ran in the opposite direction towards the icecream stall". Had she actually left her little sister alone inside the hall and why did it take time before she remembered her? 

"There was security people everywhere," she says. This we must presume was within minutes or seconds even, of the explosion itself. No one explains how or why they were there so quickly. The man we learn who had "blood on his face " was an "elderly gentleman" but she doesn't stop to help him or any of the other injured apparently or take notice of the man who has just blown himself up! This is quite incredible.

She says she was, "able to push through inside the concert screaming for her sister. They were hiding in the bathroom , really scared. I said we' re running now and we got out and ran all the way down town. As we ran cop cars were coming the other way. There was a very quick reaction."

So again we have the familiar element of these incident narratives "holed up in a bathroom very scared". But it begs the question doesn't it, how if she got to the scene so quickly, ignoring all the mayhem around her, and unobstructed by all the security people she says were there, and able to get back inside (she says "pushed through") yet within minutes not only has her little sister hidden in the bathroom, but she is able to locate her there and still be out and running away whilst "cop cars" are still arriving.

I would say there is something very wrong with this account. Yet again the television companies (in this case ITV and NBC) are either very gullible or knowingly agree to broadcast a very questionable source.

As usual we have a big problem both with the witness reports and the photographic evidence that might back up the story. I can't find a single photograph to support either multiple injuries, a dead bomber or any damage that might be expected with such an explosion. If someone else can, I am happy to stand corrected.

There is this one that claims to capture the explosion with this caption: "Sunday outside the restaurant in the Bavarian town of Ansbach was a blast. The alleged terrorist was 27-the summer native of Syria — previously refused him ..."


http://edesknews.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/85ce87c36f298774d1191d7a8207c5e0.jpg
This was published by 'EDESKNEWS'. Wikipedia (Here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2016_Ansbach_bombing) reports the bomb exploded at 22.12 (Twelve minutes past ten in the evening) This raises some serious questions regarding the witness statement discussed above. Who would be taking "an icecream break" at that time of night? Who would leave a "little sister" alone in a concert hall at that time of night? Who would "run all the way down town" at that time of night rather than call parents or guardians?

But  leaving aside any evidence of the damage that such an explosion would have caused, there is a much bigger problem. Look at the time record on the video. It says 'AM' so that must be nearly five minutes past two in the early morning. That's either 20 hours before or four hours after the stated time of the explosion. Clearly the image or the report is totally unreliable.


https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=ansbach+terrorist+bomb+images&rlz=1C1ARAB_enGB463GB464&espv=2&biw=1024&bih=713&tbm=isch&tbo=u&source=univ&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjYzIP-2a3OAhVJIsAKHeBvA-0QsAQIGw#imgrc=_
This was the nearest I could get - an undamaged backpack left outside the premises: 


http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2016/07/25/07/36917EFD00000578-3706063-image-a-27_1469426967383.jpg

Here it is again actually identified as being the one carrying the explosive device. So what sort of device was it and how was it used, in the process killing the handler of it? This, unsurprisingly has not been explained.


http://www.telegraph.co.uk/content/dam/news/2016/07/25/104017486_The_pack_back_used_to_carry_an_explosive_device_is_seen_at_the_scene_of_a_suicide_atta-large_trans++A7N2CxnJWnYI3tCbVBgu9V-UxAzQBOWbRM9zStsHOzU.jpg

 Ansbach Suicide Bombing - Issues

I have just watched the ITV report on the Ansbach suicide bombing here:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GWuP21Pdinc. Published on 26 Jul 2016 

(Apologies: Try as I may, I am unable to paste a copy of the screen shot I made of the broadcast so no image of the young lady in question is available here, other than that below.)
"More about the Ansbach bomber and other images of terrorist attacks in Germany in recent days. Rohit Kahroo reports, with Tom Bradby in the studio." 

I have to say I watch these productions carefully and critically for signs of problems. I noticed Rohit Kahroo a graduate from Birmingham University, was appointed ITV's 'African Correspondent" five years ago and rather unusually it was jointly with US network NBC. 

He is now "the Security Editor for ITV News, concentrating on counter-terrorism and national security, both in the UK and abroad."  

Reading his brief profile here in connection with his promotion in 2011, in the Birmingham Mail (Here: http://www.birminghammail.co.uk/news/local-news/former-birmingham-student-rohit-kachroo-151166) was this: 

"Still only 28, he was diagnosed with the condition (Type 1 diabetes) three years ago. “I was driving towards Leicestershire to work on a story with the McCanns when I realised I couldn’t keep my eyes open for more than half a second,” he said. “So I stopped at a service station for a quick nap – and woke up hours later having missed that story." 

He was however the reporter for a McCann item according to ITV (here:http://www.itnsource.com/shotlist/ITN/2008/07/21/T21070841/?v=1) "LTN: CRIME: Madeleine McCann disappearance: parents no longer suspects 21 July 2008 Story ref: T21070841 Contains: 7 Clips Format: betamax" amounting in all to over two and three quarter hours. 

So to suggest he "missed the story" may not give a totally accurate picture. 

The intrigue surrounding the McCann story and involvement of departments of HM Government is well known and a bit of a red flag in relation to anything else. (See: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_yYwFnglhtw)

But in relation to the Ansbach bombing, the bit that interested me in particular was an interview with a stated "Witness", (at 1.13 m) a young woman in her late teens or early twenties, called Jana Vandenberg. She speaks with a pronounced American accent. In the exceedingly brief slot (it's obviously savagely edited nine (9) seconds in total!) she says: 

"... and then I remembered that my little sister was back inside so I ran back towards the entrance of the concert hall and I saw a man laying injured on the floor with blood on his face ..."

No information is given where she comes from, by whom she is employed (if she is), or why she and her younger sister were in Ansbach? Or indeed why she of all people was chosen as the "eye witness" and no others.

I have just (10.8.2016) managed to source this still from the NBC video clip (See below):


http://media4.s-nbcnews.com/j/msnbc/components/video/201607/x_lon_germanywitness_160725.nbcnews-ux-1080-600.jpg


There are several elements to this that I find questionable. It is not clear how long after the incident the interview takes place but her utter composure and undisturbed - both mentally and sartorially - appearance is worrying. 

True she doesn't claim to have seen the man blow himself up but she claims to have witnessed the immediate after effects, and she was clearly desperately worried about her"little sister" who may have been a casualty. Having been concerned about her no mention is made of her again which seem rather strange.

So the man on the ground "with blood on his face": is she suggesting that was the bomber? That would certainly be the inference I got from it. If so the account is quite preposterous. He was I believe described as setting off a backpack bomb filled with bolts and such like. Do you really think that a bloodied face would adequately describe the carnarge such a device would produce?

But perhaps she was instead describing one of the fifteen injured? If so why not a mention of them or more importantly the impact the bomber himself made on her? In no way is this a credible witness report. 

The question arises, was she in fact scripted or indeed what has come to be known as a "crisis actor" purely for the emotional impact on, and link to, the United States audience?

Searching the name on the internet provided only this at http://independent.academia.edu/JanaVandenberg which does look remarkably like the person being interviewed in the ITV footage. This young lady of identical name has this against it surprisingly: 

• Cold War8,223 People
• Korean War3,128 People
• Impact of the Korean War879 People
• International Relations1,089,429 People
• Political Science603,556 People

I have now discovered the same footage, but more of it - forty (40) seconds this time - put out by NBC. (Note the Rohit Kahroo joint arrangement with NBC above that looks as if it might still be in operation) This clip is self standing athttp://www.nbcnews.com/video/u-s-teenager-witnessed-ansbach-suicide-bomb-attack-731807811513 and provides a little bit more information. We learn she is sixteen:"16-year-old Jana Vandenberg was taking an ice cream break from a music festival when she heard the explosion in Ansbach, Germany". (Her white T-shirt has 'California' embroidered on it.) Actually she doesn't say they were having an icecream but rather that "they ran in the opposite direction towards the icecream stall". Had she actually left her little sister alone inside the hall and why did it take time before she remembered her? 

"There was security people everywhere," she says. This we must presume was within minutes or seconds even, of the explosion itself. No one explains how or why they were there so quickly. The man we learn who had "blood on his face " was an "elderly gentleman" but she doesn't stop to help him or any of the other injured apparently or take notice of the man who has just blown himself up! This is quite incredible.

She says she was, "able to push through inside the concert screaming for her sister. They were hiding in the bathroom , really scared. I said we' re running now and we got out and ran all the way down town. As we ran cop cars were coming the other way. There was a very quick reaction."

So again we have the familiar element of these incident narratives "holed up in a bathroom very scared". But it begs the question doesn't it, how if she got to the scene so quickly, ignoring all the mayhem around her, and unobstructed by all the security people she says were there, and able to get back inside (she says "pushed through") yet within minutes not only has her little sister hidden in the bathroom, but she is able to locate her there and still be out and running away whilst "cop cars" are still arriving.

I would say there is something very wrong with this account. Yet again the television companies (in this case ITV and NBC) are either very gullible or knowingly agree to broadcast a very questionable source.

As usual we have a big problem both with the witness reports and the photographic evidence that might back up the story. I can't find a single photograph to support either multiple injuries, a dead bomber or any damage that might be expected with such an explosion. If someone else can, I am happy to stand corrected.

There is this one that claims to capture the explosion with this caption: "Sunday outside the restaurant in the Bavarian town of Ansbach was a blast. The alleged terrorist was 27-the summer native of Syria — previously refused him ..."


http://edesknews.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/85ce87c36f298774d1191d7a8207c5e0.jpg
This was published by 'EDESKNEWS'. Wikipedia (Here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2016_Ansbach_bombing) reports the bomb exploded at 22.12 (Twelve minutes past ten in the evening) This raises some serious questions regarding the witness statement discussed above. Who would be taking "an icecream break" at that time of night? Who would leave a "little sister" alone in a concert hall at that time of night? Who would "run all the way down town" at that time of night rather than call parents or guardians?

But  leaving aside any evidence of the damage that such an explosion would have caused, there is a much bigger problem. Look at the time record on the video. It says 'AM' so that must be nearly five minutes past two in the early morning. That's either 20 hours before or four hours after the stated time of the explosion. Clearly the image or the report is totally unreliable.


https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=ansbach+terrorist+bomb+images&rlz=1C1ARAB_enGB463GB464&espv=2&biw=1024&bih=713&tbm=isch&tbo=u&source=univ&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjYzIP-2a3OAhVJIsAKHeBvA-0QsAQIGw#imgrc=_
This was the nearest I could get - an undamaged backpack left outside the premises: 


http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2016/07/25/07/36917EFD00000578-3706063-image-a-27_1469426967383.jpg

Here it is again actually identified as being the one carrying the explosive device. So what sort of device was it and how was it used, in the process killing the handler of it? This, unsurprisingly has not been explained.


http://www.telegraph.co.uk/content/dam/news/2016/07/25/104017486_The_pack_back_used_to_carry_an_explosive_device_is_seen_at_the_scene_of_a_suicide_atta-large_trans++A7N2CxnJWnYI3tCbVBgu9V-UxAzQBOWbRM9zStsHOzU.jpg