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| Istanbul Governor Says They Name Dead Bus Bomber | |
| 2004-06-25 | |
The person behind a blast on a city bus in Istanbul was a 29-year-old woman who had been wanted by the police for involvement in acts by an illegal leftist organization, Istanbul Governor Muammer Guler said. Guler told a press conference on Friday that they had identified the person as Semiran Polat, born in 1975 in Mazgirt town of southeastern province of Tunceli. Polat who had been wanted by the police for for some time was carrying a false identification card bearing the name ''Behice Catalcam'' born in 1979 in Yatagan town of Mugla, Guler said. In the blast that happened on a city bus at about 3 p.m. on Thursday when it stopped at traffic lights in front of Turkish aid organization Kizilay (Red Crescent) Blood Center in Fatih district of Istanbul, two innocent women and a 65-year-old man were killed along with the bomber and 21 passengers were wounded, he said. ''It has been proven that Semiran Polat who was carrying the sound bomb was a suspect of bombing of a military bus in Halkali district of Istanbul on August 6, 2003 with a remote-controlled explosive and leaving two time bombs at Justice and Development Party (AK Party) headquarters in Istanbul on August 21, 2003,'' he said.
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| Posted by:Steve |
| #1 oh very nice. 2 innocent women and a man. what a guy can't be innocent? *grumbles* |
| Posted by: Dcreeper 2004-06-25 3:04:36 PM |