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Terrorists hiding in the andil mountains in Northern Iraq

A patrol of the People's Defence Forces returns to their camp in the heart of northern Iraq (news - web sites)'s poorly accessible Qandil mountains June 15, 2004. The Turkish Kurd rebel group, formerly known as the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK), announced the end of its six-year unilateral cease-fire with Turkey on June 1, telling investors and tourists to stay away from the country. TO MOVE WITH FEATURE STORY BC-IRAQ-GUERRILLAS REUTERS/Sasa Kralj REUTERS

A patrol of the People's Defence Forces crosses a creek to return to their camp in the heart of northern Iraq (news - web sites)'s poorly accessible Qandil mountains June 15, 2004. The Turkish Kurd rebel group, formerly known as the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK), announced the end of its six-year unilateral cease-fire with Turkey on June 1, telling investors and tourists to stay away from the country. TO MOVE WITH FEATURE STORY BC-IRAQ-GUERRILLAS REUTERS/Sasa Kralj

Far-left and Islamist militants are also active in Turkey and have staged bomb attacks in the past.

Far-left, kind of like Kerry and Teddy? Yep, I thought the lefties and Islamaniacs were buddies.

Kurdish rebels deny responsibility for Turkey car bomb
Kurdish rebels have denied accusations they were behind a deadly car bomb attack against a provincial governor in eastern Turkey, the pro-Kurdish Mesopotamia news agency reported.

"Acts of this kind have no place in our understanding of legitimate defence and we have nothing to do with the attack," Zubeyir Aydar, the head of Kongra-Gel, told the Europe-based agency from northern Iraq.

A Turkish police spokesman had earlier said they suspected rebels from Kongra-Gel to be behind Friday's attack in which a car bomb exploded in the city centre of Van as governor Hikmet Tan's convoy was driving by.

Mt Tan and his police escort escaped unhurt, but six people were killed and 23 injured - all of them passers-by - in the blast.

Kongra-Gel - the successor of the outlawed Kurdistan Workers party (PKK) which led a 15-year armed campaign for self-rule in south-eastern Turkey - last month called off a five-year-old truce, accusing Turkish forces of trying to wipe them out.

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