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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.

http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/200407/s1146009.htm

I have been expecting guerrilla activity to pick up as pipeline work proceeds. The pipeline is expected to be finished a year from now, actually two pipelines, they are going to build a gas line in parallel. The NGOs and environmentalists are ramping up the pressure trying to stop it, but I am expecting to see teeth in the form of terrorist attacks in an effort to make it unfeasible.

Pulling their string would be Saudis or Iranians. This would be more of the same; every pipeline outside of OPEC is under attack one way or another; lawsuits, mass demonstrations designed to stop the work, or actual military attack. Since the NGOs and greens never act against pipelines in OPEC countries, I have to believe that they are funded by OPEC money, probably Saudi.

I notice that Turkey is proposing that Iran have a share of the gas pipeline. Maybe they think that giving them a stake would translate into fewer guerrilla attacks... The PKK terrorist no doubt has his agenda, and the people funding him have theirs.