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| Man pretending to carry bomb detained outside US consulate |
| 2015-02-28 |
| [Hurriyet Daily News] Istanbul police have detained a man in front of the US consulate in Istanbul, after he threatened to detonate a bomb he said he was carrying. Turkish police sealed off a street outside the consulate after the suspect was detained. According to initial reports, the man, who is thought to have mental problems, was not carrying a bomb. A U.S. diplomat told Rooters that the consulate had taken precautionary measures following a security alert. Istanbul has been on high security alert since January, when a jacket wallah blew herself up at a cop shoppe in the historic Sultanahmet neighborhood, killing one officer and wounding another. |
| Posted by:Fred |