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| The Grand Turk |
| U.S. consulate in Turkey targeted as wave of attacks kills 9 |
| 2015-08-11 |
| [IN.REUTERS] Two women shot at the U.S. consulate in Istanbul on Monday and at least eight people were killed in a wave of separate attacks on Turkish security forces, weeks after Ankara launched a crackdown on Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allaharound with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not reallyMoslems.... , Kurdish and far-left Death Eaters. The NATO ...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. A cautionary tale of cost-benefit analysis.... member has been in a heightened state of alert since starting its "synchronised war on terror" last month, including air strikes against Islamic State fighters in Syria and Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) hard boyz in northern Iraq. It has also rounded up hundreds of suspected hard boyz at home. A far-left group that killed a Turkish security guard in a 2013 suicide kaboom of the U.S. embassy in Ankara claimed it was involved in Monday's attack. The Revolutionary People's Liberation Army-Front (DHKP-C), considered a terrorist organization by the United States and ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire.... , said one of its members was involved in the attack, and called Washington the "arch enemy" of the people of the Middle East and the world. Police with automatic rifles cordoned off streets around the U.S. consulate in the Sariyer district on the European side of Istanbul, following the gun attack there. Ahmet Akcay, a resident who witnessed the attack, told Rooters that one of the women fired four or five rounds, aiming at security officials and consulate officers. "Police were shouting 'drop your bag, drop your bag'. And the woman was saying: 'I will not surrender'," Akcay said. "The police warned her again: 'Drop your bag or we will have to shoot you', and the woman said: 'Shoot'." One of the two women was later captured maimed, the Istanbul governor's office said. The Dogan news agency said the injured woman was aged 51 and had served prison time for being a suspected member of the DHKP-C. Rooters could not immediately verify the report. |
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