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Three Turks arrested in connection with Kirkuk suicide blast
Ain't that interesting...Three Turkish nationals were arrested on suspicion of involvement in a suicide bombing that killed five people in Kirkuk last week, an official of the Kurdish faction that runs the city said. "Our militia in coordination with Kirkuk's bureau of investigation have arrested three Turks suspected of involvement in the attack," said Patriotic Union of Kurdistan (PUK) official Ramadan Rashid Muheidin. "They had Turkish passports and satellite phones when they were arrested," he said, adding that the two had been apprehended next to the PUK offices. Thirty-seven people were also wounded, most of them schoolchildren, in Thursday's bombing which police said targetted the offices of the PUK and the Kurdistan Democratic Party but was foiled 200 metres short. At the time, PUK local commander Jalal Jowher accused Islamic militants from either Kurdish-based group Ansar al-Islam or Osama bin Laden's al-Qaeda network of being behind the bombing. The same day, two suicide bombings hit the British consulate in Istanbul and a British-owned bank killing 27 people, less than a week after attacks on two synagogues in the Turkish commercial capital left 25 people dead. Ankara and London fingered members of al-Qaeda. Posted by: Fred Pruitt 2003-11-24 |
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