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| Three Turks arrested in connection with Kirkuk suicide blast |
| 2003-11-24 |
| 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 |
| #5 Keep in mind that there are also Turkish al-Qaeda ... just like there are American or British al-Qaeda. Also, the KDP had good relations with the Turks prior to the war and even helped them in the war against the PKK. More to the point, al-Qaeda prides itself on its members having abandoned ethnic or tribal ties in favor of Pan-Islamism. The Taliban helped the IMU, for example, despite the fact that a good chunk of the Northern Alliance brass was made up of Uzbeks. |
| Posted by: Dan Darling 2003-11-24 6:31:33 PM |
| #4 RC, I'm sure you have been called "Bob" at one time or another. No doubt Murat sees this as a sinister alias. |
| Posted by: Doc8404 2003-11-24 6:22:34 PM |
| #3 Sorry, I meant kurdish miltants in Iran. |
| Posted by: Super Hose 2003-11-24 5:55:32 PM |
| #2 I don't think the Turks are bombing anyone currently. I suppose Ansar would hold a grudge against the PUK and KDP for assisting in the extermination that the US performed on the rat's nest in Northern Iraq. Turkish passports should not be hard to obtain for Kurdish militants in Iraq. |
| Posted by: Super Hose 2003-11-24 5:54:23 PM |
| #1 What?! How can secularized, infinitely tolerant Turks be involved in suicicide bombings?! BTW, Murat -- you never revealed the information you have regarding my "true identity". Why not? Did you forget? C'mon, don't you remember posting this? Robert Crawford aka Berxwedan use your real name please and be honest to tell everyone that you are a PKK symphatizer. If you don't I will link your post from the KM site. C'mon, Murat. You made an accusation; prove it or be proven a coward. |
| Posted by: Robert Crawford 2003-11-24 5:28:10 PM |