Turkish woman kiled by bomb she carried

upi via bloomberg no url | 5/20/3

[NativeNewYorker]

ANKARA, Turkey, May 20 (UPI) -- A female militant killed herself when a bomb she was carrying exploded Tuesday in a cafe in the heart of Ankara, police said.

Two other people were injured when the bomb went off immediately after the woman entered the bathroom of the Cafe Crocodile carrying a big bag, an eyewitness said. The police identified the woman as Songul Akyurt and said she was a member of an underground Turkish Peoples' Liberation Army Front.

Analysts said the incident marked a reappearance of Leftist terrorism after years in which terrorist violence has been more often associated with the Kurdish separatists. Islamist extremists have also carried out terror attacks.

The three-story cafe was situated in the commercial district of the Turkish capital and was popular with young people.

Akyurt was among extremists who began death fasts two years ago to prevent prison reforms that would have undercut their political activities among other convicts. Police said she was released from prison because of failing health.

Police collected parts of the bomber's body, strewn among the wreckage of the cafe, another eyewitness said. The explosion brought down a concrete wall and broke all the cafe's windows of the cafe as well as those in adjacent buildings. State Prosecutor Ahmet Mutlu told reporters that police were still investigating the incident.

A month ago a bomb explosion rocked a McDonald's restaurant in Istanbul, causing extensive damage but no casualties.

[MattinNJ]

Turkish Peoples' Liberation Army Front

This may be insensitive of me, but I can't help think of that Monty Python movie where the Peoples Front of Judea fought the Judean Peoples Front.

[freedomlover]

Brian: Are you the Judean People's Front?

Reg: F*ck off.

Brian: What?

Reg: Judean People's Front. We're the People's Front of Judea. Judean People's front, caw.

Francis: Wankers.

Brian: Can I join your group?

Reg: No. P!ss off.

Brian: I didn't want to sell this stuff. It's only a job. I hate the Romans as much as anybody.

PFJ: Sssh. Ssssh, sssh, sssh, ssssh

Judith: Are you sure?

Brian: Oh. Dead sure... I hate the Romans already.

Reg: Listen. If you really wanted to join the PFJ, you'd have to really hate the Romans.

Brian: I do.

Reg: Oh yeah? How much?

Brian: A lot!

Reg: Right. You're in. Listen. The only people we hate more than the Romans are the Judean People's Front.

PFJ: Yeah

Judith: Splitters.

Francis: And the Judean Popular Peoples Front.

PFJ: Oh yeah. Splitters.

Loretta: And the peoples Front of Judea.

PFJ: Splitters.

Reg: What?

Loretta: The Peoples front of Judea. Splitters.

Reg: We're the Peoples front of Judea.

Loretta: Oh. I thought we were the Popular Front.

Reg: Peoples Front.

Francis: Whatever happened to the Popular Front, Reg:?

Reg: He's over there.

(A single old man sits on a lower seat.!)

PFJ: (To the old man.) SPLITTER!

[curmudgeonII]

One less.

[tracer]

Now, that's gratitude for you. I hope the rest of her offspring are more appreciative of all that she has done for them....

[MattinNJ]

ROTFLMAO. Thanks, I needed that. The ability of people to recite Monty Python never ceases to amaze me.

[freedomlover]

Google is your friend.

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&q=Peoples+Front+of+Judea&btnG=Google+Search

will find you

http://www.geo.u-szeged.hu/~bodis/BK/brian/brian05.html

[HamiltonJay]

hahaha me too!

[RichInOC]

WHAT HAPPEN?

[Consort]

......

[mewzilla]

Female militant? Gee, hate to think of what this loony would have needed to do to have UPI call her a terrorist.

[Phsstpok]

This one surely sounds like a willing mad bomber, but my great fear is that they aren't all willing. I know that there were reports that some of the "suicide" incidents in Iraq were done by people who not only had a gun to their head but also had a gun to their children's heads. I'm particularly afraid of this in cases where the bombers are women. I know that's sexist of me, but it's what jumps to the front of my mind first.

[lilylangtree]

Gives new meaning to a couple of phrases like:

"Got her knickers into an uproar!"

"Thar she blows!"