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Turkey: 15 dead, 154 injured in Istanbul double bombing: TV
AFP ^ | 07/27/08

Posted on 07/27/2008 5:14:35 PM PDT by TigerLikesRooster

15 dead, 154 injured in Istanbul double bombing: TV

1 hour, 10 minutes ago

Two bombs exploded in Istanbul overnight, leaving at least 15 people dead and 154 others wounded, officials announced.

The first bomb created a small blast in a rubbish bin in the Gungoren neighbourhood on the western European bank of the Turkish city.

A second stronger explosion took place several minutes later a few metres (yards) away while a crowd began to gather at the site of the first blast, NTV reported.

The images broadcast by NTV showed scenes of panic, with people covered in blood and disoriented as they ran from the area of the blasts, littered with debris and shattered glass.

Teams of firefighters and emergency workers were dispatched to the scene and police established a security perimeter.

Local television stations had initially reported that the blasts were caused by a gas leak.

(Excerpt) Read more at news.yahoo.com ...


TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Front Page News; News/Current Events; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: bombing; globaljihad; islam; mohammedanism; terrorism; turkey; wot
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1 posted on 07/27/2008 5:14:35 PM PDT by TigerLikesRooster
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To: TigerLikesRooster

Must be those dastardly Christians responding to the recent desecration of a consecrated Host by that wacko college professor.


2 posted on 07/27/2008 5:16:43 PM PDT by B-Chan (Catholic. Monarchist. Texan. Any questions?)
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To: Ernest_at_the_Beach

Wow- right after the bombings in India- check this out.


3 posted on 07/27/2008 5:19:07 PM PDT by SE Mom (Proud mom of an Iraq war combat vet)
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To: TigerLikesRooster

AQ


4 posted on 07/27/2008 5:19:22 PM PDT by yldstrk (My heros have always been cowboys--Reagan and Bush)
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To: B-Chan

No doubt the work of Baptists.


5 posted on 07/27/2008 5:21:35 PM PDT by DemonDeac
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To: yldstrk

Could be the work of the Kurds too.


6 posted on 07/27/2008 5:22:35 PM PDT by rbg81 (DRAIN THE SWAMP!!)
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To: DemonDeac

Muslims doing what they do best- killing.


7 posted on 07/27/2008 5:33:41 PM PDT by MrLee (Sha'alu Shalom Yerushalyim!! God bless Eretz Israel.)
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To: TigerLikesRooster

A Turkish theater for World War III
Asia Times Online Friday, July 25, 2008 Chan Akya
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2051965/posts


8 posted on 07/27/2008 5:35:29 PM PDT by Libertarianize the GOP (Make all taxes truly voluntary)
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To: SE Mom

So India and Turkey (trending Muslim) are now under fire and the focus of activity by the bustards. It will be interesting to see how they will react. Will they adopt the Obamasiah’s magic talk about tearing down the walls that divide us, or the George Bush approach of sending the creeps to Allah?


9 posted on 07/27/2008 5:36:54 PM PDT by Bahbah (Typical white person-Snow white)
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To: Bahbah

India? Aren’t there about 20 hindus for each muslim there?


10 posted on 07/27/2008 5:39:35 PM PDT by utherdoul
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To: Bahbah

Ahhh yes, those walls of mistaken ideas that keep us from Utopia..

Obama tried to be so clever with his allusion to Reagan’s wall in Berlin. Now it’s walls of misunderstanding that separate us, eh Obama?

What a fool.


11 posted on 07/27/2008 5:43:52 PM PDT by SE Mom (Proud mom of an Iraq war combat vet)
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To: utherdoul
India? Aren’t there about 20 hindus for each muslim there?

Too bad good Hindus are vegetarians. They could eat the Muslims, otherwise. Problems solved, Five Cents.

"He who desires to augment his own flesh by eating the flesh of other creatures lives in misery in whatever species he may take his birth. Mahabharat 115.47 "

12 posted on 07/27/2008 5:44:21 PM PDT by Gorzaloon
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To: rbg81
Could be the work of the Kurds too.

Curds? No Whey!!!

13 posted on 07/27/2008 5:51:24 PM PDT by null and void (Barack Obama - International Man of Mystery...)
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To: TigerLikesRooster; Jet Jaguar; monkapotamus; Tamar1973; AmericanInTokyo; All

More like Islamic rage boy family reunion LOL!


14 posted on 07/27/2008 5:51:58 PM PDT by SevenofNine ("We are Freepers, all your media belong to us, resistence is futile")
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To: TigerLikesRooster

AQ said they would start hitting Turkey after 07.


15 posted on 07/27/2008 5:52:08 PM PDT by rjp2005 (Lord have mercy on us)
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To: TigerLikesRooster

Why did Constantinople get the works...


16 posted on 07/27/2008 5:54:44 PM PDT by dfwgator ( This tag blank until football season.)
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To: utherdoul
India? Aren’t there about 20 hindus for each muslim there?

I don't know the ratio in India, but it is Turkey that I meant as trending Muslim. I can only suspect that the attacks in India are meant to make trouble with Pakistan, but I don't know that.

17 posted on 07/27/2008 5:57:41 PM PDT by Bahbah (Typical white person-Snow white)
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To: Bahbah
Obamasiah’s magic talk about tearing down the walls that divide us

But of course, that is all the Religion of Peace is doing, tearing down the walls . . . with bombs.

18 posted on 07/27/2008 5:57:57 PM PDT by JimSEA (just another liberal-bashing fearmonger)
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To: null and void

Could be the work of the Kurds too.
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Curds? No Whey!!! (posted by null and void)

I almost NEVER used the acronym LOL, but this brilliant response deserves a hearty and sincere LOL! Kudos, null and void!


19 posted on 07/27/2008 6:02:05 PM PDT by OkeyDokeyOkie
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To: TigerLikesRooster; Robert Spencer

Turkey’s dilemma here...

http://www.jihadwatch.org/archives/021938.php#comments

Thanks to Robert Spencer, jihadwatch poster Henrik (follow his link - “The Battle for Secularism in Turkey”, - read his article) and the outstanding posters at jihadwatch.


20 posted on 07/27/2008 6:14:51 PM PDT by PGalt
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To: OkeyDokeyOkie
*blush* Thank yew...

(it wasn't too cheesy was it?)

21 posted on 07/27/2008 6:20:04 PM PDT by null and void (Barack Obama - International Man of Mystery...)
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To: DemonDeac
NO! You are confused.

It was the Anabaptists.

/sarc

22 posted on 07/27/2008 6:23:57 PM PDT by AmericanInTokyo (If McCain Stays RINO After You Vote For Him You Were: A) A Fool; or B) No Conservative To Begin With)
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To: SevenofNine
Hey BAAA`BY! Image and video hosting by TinyPic Image and video hosting by TinyPic ...;0)
23 posted on 07/27/2008 6:44:23 PM PDT by 1COUNTER-MORTER-68 (THROWING ANOTHER BULLET-RIDDLED TV IN THE PILE OUT BACK~~~~~)
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To: 1COUNTER-MORTER-68; monkapotamus; dead; All

OH YUK I have feeling he did it LOL!


24 posted on 07/27/2008 6:46:33 PM PDT by SevenofNine ("We are Freepers, all your media belong to us, resistence is futile")
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To: Gorzaloon
"He who desires to augment his own flesh by eating the flesh of other creatures lives in misery in whatever species he may take his birth. Mahabharat 115.47 "

please exspound on this for a southern boy who eats everything from mud bugs to tree rats. I'm pretty happy.. pass me another beer!

25 posted on 07/27/2008 6:52:43 PM PDT by MrPiper
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To: SevenofNine; FARS

They been raizzzin’ hell in Turkey for weeks now,,,

I think I got a ping on this ?...


26 posted on 07/27/2008 7:05:01 PM PDT by 1COUNTER-MORTER-68 (THROWING ANOTHER BULLET-RIDDLED TV IN THE PILE OUT BACK~~~~~)
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To: 1COUNTER-MORTER-68; All; 1035rep; 1curiousmind; 4woodenboats; 2ndDivisionVet; 5Madman2; ...

I pinged you a about two weeks or so ago with an article posted on one of the AntiMullah sections and about Fethullah Gulen (also antimullah weeks ago warning of the Turkish Khomeini type uprising in the offing in the very near future).

Sad in context, though gratifying, to have been one of the very first to bring Gulen to full view from his self-exile hiding place in Philadelphia.

The Islamic movement is Erdogan’s doing and Gulen is th eTurkish Khomeini. Revolution in progress in Turkey

read more - recent text at:

http://noiri.blogspot.com/2008/07/two-pronged-islamic-attack-on-secular.html

Orignal APRIL text:by Michael Rubin link at this site

http://noiri.blogspot.com/2008/04/fethullah-gulen-turkeys-khomeini-about.html


27 posted on 07/27/2008 8:03:50 PM PDT by FARS
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To: FARS

Thanks for the ping, FARS.


28 posted on 07/27/2008 8:05:09 PM PDT by LucyT (What happens in Denver won't stay in Denver... August 25 - 28, 2008)
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To: TigerLikesRooster

Revenge of the Kurds?


29 posted on 07/27/2008 8:17:38 PM PDT by Bringbackthedraft (If everyone stays home and no one votes will Congress disappear?)
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To: FARS

Thanks for the ping!


30 posted on 07/27/2008 8:50:17 PM PDT by Alamo-Girl
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To: FARS

TANKS a Bunch My FRiend!,,,

Your memory is much better than mine...(hat~tip)...;0)


31 posted on 07/27/2008 9:05:21 PM PDT by 1COUNTER-MORTER-68 (THROWING ANOTHER BULLET-RIDDLED TV IN THE PILE OUT BACK~~~~~)
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The Turkish ruling party is Islamicist, and has been under scrutiny by the courts for violations of the Turkish constitution; it has also been conducting raids and arresting al-Qaeda members. But here’s the biggie:

86 Charged in Turkey Coup Plot
The NY Times | July 15, 2008 | SEBNEM ARSU
Posted on 07/15/2008 3:18:17 PM PDT by forkinsocket
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2045991/posts


32 posted on 07/27/2008 10:56:07 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/_________________________Profile updated Friday, May 30, 2008)
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To: FARS; AdmSmith; Berosus; Convert from ECUSA; dervish; Ernest_at_the_Beach; Fred Nerks; george76; ...
Thanks FARS.
Two bombs exploded in Istanbul overnight, leaving at least 15 people dead and 154 others wounded, officials announced. The first bomb created a small blast in a rubbish bin in the Gungoren neighbourhood on the western European bank of the Turkish city. A second stronger explosion took place several minutes later a few metres (yards) away while a crowd began to gather at the site of the first blast, NTV reported.

33 posted on 07/27/2008 10:56:18 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/_________________________Profile updated Friday, May 30, 2008)
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To: SunkenCiv; 1COUNTER-MORTER-68; 1035rep; 1curiousmind; 4woodenboats; 2ndDivisionVet; 5Madman2; ...

Notice the escalation to 29 executed in one day last week from a horrific five shown at the link below

http://noiri.blogspot.com/2007/12/merry-christmas-from-iran.html


34 posted on 07/27/2008 11:08:59 PM PDT by FARS
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To: null and void
Curds? No Whey!!!

All right, Little Miss Muffet.

35 posted on 07/27/2008 11:15:15 PM PDT by Jeff Chandler (I am voting for McCain because he is white.)
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To: TigerLikesRooster; a_Turk
Prime suspect: Teyrebazen Azadiya Kurdistan (TAK), also known as the Kurdistan Freedom Hawks or Kurdistan Freedom Falcons. This group, which first appeared in 2004 is either a small splinter of or an alias for the Kurdistan Workers’; Party (PKK), the most active Kurdish militant group, or totally independent of the PKK, or only loosely connected to it.
more here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kurdistan_Freedom_Falcons
36 posted on 07/27/2008 11:33:20 PM PDT by AdmSmith
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To: FARS

If the Army doesn’t move as per the Constitution, the Constitution and secular Turkey are dead.


37 posted on 07/28/2008 4:41:32 AM PDT by ThanhPhero (di hanh huong den La Vang)
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To: MrPiper
please exspound on this for a southern boy who eats everything from mud bugs to tree rats. I'm pretty happy.. pass me another beer!

Hey, I always wondered but never dared try it...How ARE mudbugs, really? We have them around here. Some idiot thought he was doing me a favor and dumped some from a bait shop in my glodfish pond. Of course, they ate all the goldfish. I netted them all and fed them to the raccons that used to show up every night. They loved them.

Do they taste like prawns or shrimp?

38 posted on 07/28/2008 4:47:01 AM PDT by Gorzaloon
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To: TigerLikesRooster

The Grey wolves Kemalists are playing their dirty tricks again...probably with the help of the Islamofascists.


39 posted on 07/28/2008 5:43:37 AM PDT by eleni121 (EN TOUTO NIKA!! +)
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To: TigerLikesRooster; All

Here’s the link to the Henrik post, “The battle for secularism in Turkey”

http://www.jihadwatch.org/dhimmiwatch/archives/020884.php


40 posted on 07/28/2008 5:51:04 AM PDT by PGalt
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To: eleni121

Thanks for the link on your homepage, “In Memory Of The 50 Million Victims Of The Orthodox Christian Holocaust”


41 posted on 07/28/2008 6:10:44 AM PDT by PGalt
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To: FARS

Thanks, FARS.


42 posted on 07/28/2008 7:36:47 AM PDT by bayouranger (The 1st victim of islam is the person who practices the lie.)
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To: utherdoul
Aren’t there about 20 hindus for each muslim there?

The ratio is less than 6 to 1. (850,000,000 Hindus, 150,000,000 Moslems, and Christians, Sikhs, and Buddhists comprise the rest).

43 posted on 07/28/2008 8:51:56 AM PDT by Mr. Mojo
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To: Bahbah
I don't know the ratio in India, but it is Turkey that I meant as trending Muslim.

Not sure what you mean by that- Turkey is 99%+ Muslim.

Do you mean trending towards the more radical strains of Islam? Maybe, but keep in mind there has been an ongoing Kurdish terrorist movement in Turkey for decades, and the main Kurdish terrorist groups aren't very religious- they're mostly communist.

In any event, the Turks are very good at anti-terrorism operations.

44 posted on 07/28/2008 9:00:38 AM PDT by Citizen Blade (Batman is a Democrat. The Punisher is a Republican)
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To: Citizen Blade
Not sure what you mean by that- Turkey is 99%+ Muslim.

Not surprising since I was not very clear. What I meant was that the government, rather than remaining strictly secular, appears that it may be trending toward a more Islamic way of governance.

45 posted on 07/28/2008 9:06:53 AM PDT by Bahbah (Typical white person-Snow white)
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To: Bahbah
What I meant was that the government, rather than remaining strictly secular, appears that it may be trending toward a more Islamic way of governance.

I fear you may be right.

46 posted on 07/28/2008 9:11:30 AM PDT by Citizen Blade ("Please... I go through everyone's trash." The Question)
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To: Gorzaloon
Hey, I always wondered but never dared try it...How ARE mudbugs, really? Do they taste like prawns or shrimp?

I don't know what a prawn is, but yes they are like a fat shrimp and normally cooked like crab or lobster, live.

The best way is to get about 10 lbs, live, put them in a cooler of warm salty water. This is called "purging". It cleans them out so you don't have the "vein" (dirty digestive tract like shrimp.) This is not necessary, but for those of us with squeamish women folk, worth it. Then dump into seasoned boiling water like crab until they turn red. Best served with boiled corn, potatoes and beer. PS, like crab, those pincher's, can!

47 posted on 07/28/2008 10:44:30 AM PDT by MrPiper
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To: MrPiper
Thanks! There was a guy at work who was raising some kind of gourmet type of crayfish. He said he fed them cornmeal to clean them out.

If the things were not so ugly I would have tried them by now, but I suppsoe they are no worse to look at than a lobster or a shrimp. It is just that I have seen too many of their bad habits in the wild. Once, all of them picked on another one, and he had no arms and legs..then they ate him. Ugh. Talk about bad manners.

48 posted on 07/28/2008 11:30:00 AM PDT by Gorzaloon
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To: FARS

Thanks for the ping!


49 posted on 07/28/2008 11:32:56 AM PDT by Alamo-Girl
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To: Bahbah

Turks and their comrades throw around the term secular but Turks are anything but. There is no significance to the word secular when 99.999% of them are muslims and a Turk converting to Christianity can be murdered as has happened many times.

The original and legal inhabitants of Asia Minor - the Christians - are all dead in genocides against them.


50 posted on 07/28/2008 1:18:53 PM PDT by eleni121 (EN TOUTO NIKA!! +)
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