Bloody hell is all i can say. 4 bombs in less than a week. This has to stop. I mean more innocent people are dying than their intended targets. :rolleyes: This is just appalling.
Its all so disgusting. Out of words to condemn terrorists, may Allah swt help the victims and their families.
The timing is so suspicious.. just when the sympathy of the British public is most needed, a bomb targets British..
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The timing is so suspicious.. just when the sympathy of the British public is most needed, a bomb targets British..
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3rd post into it, nice.
I know it seems cynical, but outrages like these will probably boost Bush's popularity and his war-mongering campaign. Which will in turn boost Al Qaeda and the circle of violence will continue. You have to feel sorry for places like Turkey which get caught up in the middle.
for any crime committed you have to ask yourself..
- who is capable
- who benefits the most from it or 'motive'
Turkey by not sending troops should be in the good books of all those who want the US out of Iraq... why should acts of terrorism be conducted at it's soil now??
British facilities have been targeted before in Turkey. Do you blame the attacks of the synagogues this past Saturday on Jews?
Valid or not UTD soggy does have a point. Nothing is cut and clear in politics and everybody knows that the US has used dirty tactics before. No matter who committed it it is just plain wrong. Btw the boycott is over?
"why should acts of terrorism be conducted at it's soil now??"
This has nothing to do with Turkey, other than the fact that there are enough sympathizers in Turkey who will shelter these guys. Thus the attacks happen, similar to Bali. Next month it will be somewhere else.
Pandora's box has been opened, and things now have a momentum of their own.
Well IMO, whoever did it, Al-Qaeda, or anybody else, needs to stop this non-sense of killing innocent civilians Muslim or Non-Muslim.
it definitely has something to do with Turkey.. why not blast bombs when Turkey was deciding to send troops to Iraq.. that would have been the best time to deter them and get them fighting terrorism at their own soil.. why now. and why British people and not American.. afterall America is supposed to be enemy no. 1 for these people..
the timing is just like those Saddam/OBL speeches that emerge just when people are about to go on with their lives and getting a little less afraid and questioning huge amounts of money being spent in fighting the war on terrorism.
The Truth!
Well! I have two options for you….
- The recent bombings in turkey are carried out by AL-Qaeda suicide bombers, who want to deter any “secular” Muslim democracy to flourish..
- The recent bombings in turkey are carried out by the CIA (B&B ..Bush in Britain, and Thursday was the day for demonstrations against bush), secondly the media is playing it up as what will the “Secular Muslim democracies” do, this threat is against them too!!!
I am totally confused please help me choose…>>>>>:konfused:<<<<<<
Is it option 1 or Option 2.
The CIA is AL-Qaeda which are puppets of the Jews. Have that as the third option and I think we'll have a runaway winner.
^^ I wont go that far …?
PS: Still 
So you think (possibly) the bombing took place via CIA so the protests wouldn't occur or so the media won’t focus on the demonstrations taking place but rather the bombing?
Let me add my sympathies to the innocents in Turkey who were murdered in these latest terrorist attacks. Add them to the list of Muslims and non-Muslims killed several days ago in Turkey (wasn't there two bombings near synagogues??). Add them further to the list of primarily Muslims and Arabs in Saudi Arabia killed by terrorist bombs during Ramadan. Tears and condolences are appropriate for all of these innocents.
Even among those who still cling to the belief that these terrorists started from a foundation of legitimate grievances, it has got to be clear that they are totally out of control. Apparently, their modus operandi to get at the US (if you believe that is their objective) is to cause chaos, fear, death and destruction among all people under the belief they can achieve their ultimate objective by first destablizing the entire world.
Can there be any clearer examples that the war against terrorism is not US against YOU. It is US and YOU against THEM.
i thought the ‘war on terrorism’ was supposed to make the world a safer place. Who can claim to be surprised by this atrocity? For New Year’s eve, it might be some other city on the hit list. So much for the world being a more stable and less dangerous place to reside in. 
This remiands me of an outbreak of smallpox or ebola. There is an early point in time where the treatment personnel have an opportunty to encapsulate the outbreak, and limit the spread of the outbreak.
What we are witnessing today in Turkey is that horrible stomach wrenching realization that the moment of opportuntiy for containment has passed, and that the disease will run it’s course.
The events in Turkey completely eclipsed the following:
Four dead in Kirkuk explosion
Thursday 20 November 2003, 15:20 Makka Time, 12:20 GMT
The offices of the PUK were headed by Jalal Talabani
At least four Iraqis were killed and 37 were wounded when a bomber blew up a car packed with explosives in the Iraqi city of Kirkuk.
The dead, apart from the bomber, were a man, a schoolmistress and two pupils, said the director general of Kirkuk General Hospital.
Most of the wounded, seven of whom were in critical condition, were children attending a school with both primary and secondary classes.
The target of the attack was the offices of the two main Kurdish factions - the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan and the Kurdistan Democratic Party.
Al-Qaida blamed
An estimated 200kg of explosives was crammed into a Nissan pick-up which was completely destroyed, said a police chief.
The windows of the PUK’s offices were blown in by the force of the blast, an AFP correspondent on the scene reported.
Five of the wounded were from the PUK, local commander Jalal Jowher said.
He accused Islamic fighters from either the Kurdish group Ansar al-Islam or al-Qaida of being behind “this cowardly act”.
Ramadi car bomb
Meanwhile, a car bomb killed several people at the house of a leading tribal chief in Ramadi on Wednesday.
US forces are fiercely opposed in
Ramadi
The attack at the house of Majid al-Ali Sulayman, shaikh of the al-Dulaim tribe, also left others injured, Aljazeera’s correspondent said.
No further details on the casualties were reported, as Iraqi police prevented people from entering the hospital where they were transferred.
US forces surrounded the site, imposing a curfew on the area.
Ramadi is in a part of the country where resistance to the US-led occupation is strongest.
Attacks on US soldiers and Iraqi targets seen as linked to the occupying forces are common.
US forces are planning to hand over security responsibilities in the town to Iraqi police early next year.
School explosion
In another incident, two Iraqi children were killed and two were wounded when an explosion ripped through a classroom near Karbala, medical staff said on Thursday.
“One of the wounded suffered serious injuries. The children were 11 or 12,” the director of Al-Hussein Hospital, Abbas Musa al-Tamimi, said.
Police said they had opened an inquiry into Wednesday’s blast at Al-Abid school, two km west of the city.
It was not immediately clear whether the explosion was the result of a deliberate attack, or one of the children had brought an unexploded device into the school as a toy.
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What we are witnessing today in Turkey is that horrible stomach wrenching realization that the moment of opportuntiy for containment has passed, and that **the disease will run it's course.
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It could be because those who claimed to have been treating the disease, have infact aggravated it.
There are those who also thought that AIDS was the biblical retribution for Homosexuality.