Hakkari paramilitary teams on Sunday found 10 gas tubes packed with a large amount of explosives on a road between the villages of Geçitli-Pinarca. Hakkari Mountain Commando Brigadier Commandership teams defused the ready-to-explode gas tubes. Hakkari Governor Erdogan GÌrbÌz told reporters at his office that commando teams, patrolling in region, found 10 gas tubes surrounded by TNT explosives. Police initiated an investigation into the incident. Turkish police seized 23.66 metric tons of trinitrotoluene (TNT) in the southern Turkish town of Kirikhan in the province of Hatay.
| 23.66 metric tons? Holy sh*t! |
| Now, that's a boom! Blood-thirsty little bastards, aren't they? |
One hundred kilograms of C-4 plastic explosives along with 10,050 bullets were intercepted on Friday in a truck entering from Iraq in the southeastern Turkish town of Silopi near Sirnak.
Terrorist attacks by the PKK have increased recently in the southeastern region of Turkey following the ending of the unilateral PKK/KONGRA-GEL ceasefire on June 1, which had lasted six years. The separatist activities of the outlawed PKK/KADEK terrorist organization claimed nearly 30,000 lives in the region up to the late nineties. However, the activities of the organization declined sharply following the capture of leader Abdullah Öcalan in February 1999.
| Could be the Kurds, the Turks just nailed three of them: The officials said the three "terrorists" killed -- including a local PKK leader known as Seyit Riza -- were Iranian nationals and were suspected of involvement in the killing of a Turkish citizen, attacks on a police station and a military vehicle as well as acts of extortion in the region. |
A local Islamic extremists cell linked with Al Qaeda carried out four suicide bombings against British and Israeli targets in Istanbul that killed more than 60 people in November 2003.
| Or, it could be these guys. Or both together. |
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