[Excerpt: It said the home-made explosives, studded with nails and containing powdered potassium, were found in the garden at the entrance to the bar near the Incirlik Air Base.....Workers at the bar spotted the package containing the explosives on Tuesday night and informed paramilitary police who cleared the premises.....They called police bomb disposal experts who defused the bomb and took it to a laboratory for examination.]
http://www.reuters.co.uk/newsArticle.jhtml;jsessionid=YJMJ3CDHVTX4OCRBAEOCFEY?type=worldNews&storyID=665712 Turk police defuse bomb near airbase Wed Feb 2, 2005 10:14 PM GMT Printer Friendly | Email Article | RSS ISTANBUL (Reuters) - Turkish bomb disposal experts have defused a four-kilogram bomb found at a bar next to an airbase in southern Turkey used by U.S. forces, the CNN Turk Web site and other media reports say It said the home-made explosives, studded with nails and containing powdered potassium, were found in the garden at the entrance to the bar near the Incirlik Air Base. Workers at the bar spotted the package containing the explosives on Tuesday night and informed paramilitary police who cleared the premises. They called police bomb disposal experts who defused the bomb and took it to a laboratory for examination. State-run Anatolian news agency said that based on eyewitness accounts, police are looking for one man and one woman in connection with the explosives. Kurdish separatists, far leftist groups and Islamic militants have all carried out bomb attacks in Turkey in the past. More than 60 people were killed in a series of suicide bomb attacks in Istanbul in November 2003. Officials have said militants linked to al Qaeda were responsible for those attacks. enditem UNRESTRICTED ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> Give underprivileged students the materials they need to learn. Bring education to life by funding a specific classroom project. http://us.click.yahoo.com/FHLuJD/_WnJAA/cUmLAA/TySplB/TM --------------------------------------------------------------------~-> -------------------------- Want to discuss this topic? Head on over to our discussion list, [EMAIL PROTECTED] -------------------------- Brooks Isoldi, editor [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.intellnet.org Post message: osint@yahoogroups.com Subscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] *** FAIR USE NOTICE. This message contains copyrighted material whose use has not been specifically authorized by the copyright owner. OSINT, as a part of The Intelligence Network, is making it available without profit to OSINT YahooGroups members who have expressed a prior interest in receiving the included information in their efforts to advance the understanding of intelligence and law enforcement organizations, their activities, methods, techniques, human rights, civil liberties, social justice and other intelligence related issues, for non-profit research and educational purposes only. We believe that this constitutes a 'fair use' of the copyrighted material as provided for in section 107 of the U.S. Copyright Law. If you wish to use this copyrighted material for purposes of your own that go beyond 'fair use,' you must obtain permission from the copyright owner. For more information go to: http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/107.shtml Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/osint/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
