ISTANBUL -- Turkish authorities have aborted planned bombing of a building housing offices for the central intelligence in the southeast of the country.
"Khabar Turk" website reported on Friday that up to 495 of explosives were set to go off and blow up the building in the province of Shirnak. But police arrested two members of the Workers Party of Kurdistan (the PKK) while the pair were trying to plant the explosives.
The PKK, a group based in the southeast of the country, advocates establishing a separate Kurdish entity.
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“Man is sentenced in bomb-threat hoax”
Published: Saturday, March 29, 2008 12:41 a.m. MDT
ARTICLE SNIPPET: “In January, Dotson pleaded guilty to making a bomb threat. He admitted to walking into the Wells Fargo building on 299 S. Main on July 17, 2007, and asking to speak to the manager.
Dotson said he told the manager he was interested in opening an account and was led into the manager’s office where he told the manager he had 5 pounds of explosives in his backpack and to call 911. He ordered the manager to clear the building.
Eventually Dotson surrendered to police, and a bomb squad detonated his backpack, only to find out his threats were a hoax.”