British Consulate in Turkey Bombed

AP | 4/03/03

[Smile-n-Win]

causing damage but no injuries

Allah missed again.

Thank God!

[American in Israel]

At least Turk Islamics have enough brains to throw the bomb instead of wear it! But then they only voted in Islam this year... Give them a few months more and the IQ levels will sink to the sub-moronic levels to spawn Islamokazis.

[nevergore]

The article leads one to believe this was directed at the soccer match results and not any Islamic ferver regarding the war....

Note the US Embassy or consulate were not touched...just the Brits....Most likey sore soccer fans whose rivalry is legendary.....

BTW, what many times is reported as bombs are really nothing more than oversized fireworks....they make a lot of noise but are really incapable to cause extreme damage, except to the person handling......My point is that this doesn't appear to be military grade or large scale...

NeverGore

[a_Turk]

Terror attacks in Turkey are usually perpetrated by the following:

1- PKK (against anything state),

2- Plain old commies (against anything imperialist),

3- Nationalists (against anything commie).

Religious terror last I heard of was in the late 70s.

[Destro]

What a liar-or your forgetful--what about Turkey's Hizbollah? And the scores of bodies found buried in torture chambers throughout Turkey? Oh yea I forgot! Hizbollah worked for the Turkish Generals to get at the enemies of the state!!

[American in Israel]

Well these are new days in Turkey. I fear the future of Turkey took a wrong road this year.

[ChadGore]

ROPMA

[nevergore]

Please clarify...were you comments direct at me or was I just copied on your comments directed at A_Turk?

NeverGore

[a_Turk]

Those were kidnappings not bombings (*)..

[a_Turk]

>> Well these are new days in Turkey.

You're making a mountain of a molehill..

[Destro]

Your right.

[katana]

I have to agree. Compared with the PUK terror in the 70's and 80's, this is really small potatoes.

The Turks have no love for Arabs and once this war is concluded with the Islamic nature of Iraq preserved it will become a non-issue. Considering the history of the Baath socialists in both Iraq and Syria vis a vis Islam, things should actually improve with Saddam gone. His status as a muslim is parallel to his hero Stalin's WWII faith in Orthodox Christianity.

I think the danger is that the Kurds will over play their hand and overtly form their own state. If they are patient they will have one de facto under a "federalized" Iraqi government. If they declare their part of Iraq "Kurdistan", the Turkish military will take action to crush them, and the Turks as soldiers make anything Iraq can put up look like a brownie troop.

[a_Turk]

>> Compared with the PUK terror in the 70's and 80's, this is really small potatoes.

That was PKK terror in the 80s, but more so in the 90s..

Your new "allies" hide the PKK..

36,000 lives were lost..

[katana]

Thank you for the correction. My memory for terrorist acronyms is shot.

[a_Turk]

>> My memory for terrorist acronyms is shot.

LOL! Can't say I blame you..

[Diddle E. Squat]

outside a branch of United Postal Service cargo company

Another great moment in media accuracy? Isn't it actually United Parcel Service?

[katana]

Well, I should remember the PKK. I had a rifle pointed at me by a Turkish soldier at Ankara Airport a couple months after the PKK had shot up the terminal. It was in the central courtyard, in the dark, waiting for a six hour delayed domestic Turk Hava Yolari flight.

Two very nervous troopers hadn't noticed me at first and I surprised them. They yelled something in Turkish, so I put up my hands and said "Amerikali!". Surprisingly, they didn't open fire. Always been proud of the fact that I didn't need an underwear change after that.

[a_Turk]

>> Surprisingly, they didn't open fire.

I had weapons pointed at me many times by soldiers. Once they're comfortable with your legitemacy, they are a lot of fun. Until then, though, they are dead serious.

[cake_crumb]

"Your new "allies" hide the PKK."

I'm getting tired of repeating to you that not all Kurds are PKK. Vicious repression has NOT cured Turkey's Kurd problem. Banning Kurdish political parties is NOT something that a country which has always been, but never receives credit for being, the jewel of Muslim freedom and democracy should be doing.