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Turkish Suicide Bombers the result of Turkey’s tactical alliance with Islamicists
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The family of Gokhan Elaltuntas buried him in the dead of night, waiting until 2 a.m. Saturday to inter what bits remained of the soft-eyed young man after he detonated a truckload of fertilizer and petroleum outside an Istanbul synagogue seven days earlier. "We want to cleanse our surname, because we don’t want people to know us as terrorists," said his uncle, Rifat Elaltuntas....
"We want it to be a surprise..."
But in Bingol, many people want answers, not from the shaken families of the accused, but from the government. Until four years ago, Turkey, a Western-leaning, avowedly secular country, had tacitly encouraged Islamic extremism in this region, judging it a useful tool in a sometimes dirty war against Kurdish separatists. A brutal religious underground group known as Hezbollah received guns from government arsenals, according to official investigations, and several thousand killings widely attributed to the group were officially ignored.
I didn’t know that Turkey had used the Islamists against the Kurds. It hadn’t been reported in any newspapers, any magazines, etc. Perhaps the US govt. (under both Clinton and Bush) had been trying to keep it quiet as a favor to Turkey. Well... Damm!

You'll find the charge made in most discussions of Turkish Hezbollah. It was another Frankenstein monster...

Posted by: mhw 2003-11-24
http://www.rantburg.com/poparticle.php?ID=21702