[Rutles4Ever]

Sounds like Al Qaeda is pulling a Madrid on Turkey... First Ankara, now Istanbul?

[Reader of news]

According to CNN, there has been an explosion near a hospital in Istanbul.

[Maigrey]

What's going on here. Turkey is neutral in this.... < /sarcasm >

[ReaganRevolution]

I hope "they" know if they hurt the president then Cheney will be free to level the whole damn middle east.

[PGalt]

Thanks for the information/post.

[SMARTY]

Athens is next.

[dennisw]

Mohammedanism. The default religion of assassins. Merely following in Mohammed's footsteps as the Koran commands the faithful to do.

 

Allah FUBAR!

[McGavin999]

OMG, pray for the victems. Why on earth are they targeting Turkey?

[Moose4]

Al Qaeda is dumber than I thought if they're starting to do this in Turkey. Turkey has been gradually sliding more and more Islamic recently, their relations with Israel are getting a bit strained, they blocked us from sending the 4th Infantry Division through their territory last year...and Al Qaeda starts blowing up Turkish buses anyway? Whatever Islamonazi did this is STUPID.

Good rule of thumb: Do not piss off the Turks. Ever. They will make you regret it.

}:-)4

[a_Turk]

Pity that most people on this forum seem to be smoking dope.. If hate is what they sow, then hate is what they will reap. Meanwhile, here is more info on the subject from the Sunday Mail:

Three held over Turkish bombing

25jun04

TURKISH police today detained three people following a bus explosion that claimed four lives and left a number of people injured in Istanbul, Anatolia news agency reported.

Turkish authorities said the blast was caused by a small bomb a young woman was carrying in her lap on the bus with the aim of taking it elsewhere in the city, adding that neither the bus nor its passengers were the target of the attack.

They added that an underground left-wing organisation was likely to be behind the explosion.

The death toll rose from the blast days ahead of a NATO summit rose from three after one of the injured died in hospital, an official at the hospital said.

The patient was a 40-year-old woman who was among the 15 people rushed to hospitals with injuries following the explosion in the district of Fatih on the European side of the city, the official said on condition of anonymity.

Massive security measures have been installed in Istanbul ahead of the June 28-29 NATO summit, which will be attended by US President George W Bush and leaders from 45 other countries.

The Istanbul blast came just hours after a small bomb exploded outside a hotel in Ankara where Bush is expected to stay on Saturday night during a visit to the Turkish capital.

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Meanwhile, the bomb in Ankara has been claimed by the illegal MLKP-FESK organization.

The acronyms translate as "Marxist Leninist Communist Party - Armed Forces of the Poor and Opressed."

[a_Turk]

Here's the commie babe who was carrying the bomb, and who must have accidentally set it of on the bus. She was already wanted for another illegal act, and was carrying a forged id.