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To: MulhollandDrive who wrote (49064)	11/20/2003 10:43:25 AM
From: MulhollandDrive	Respond to of 57110

story.news.yahoo.com Turkish Blasts Kill 26 in Strike at Britain 18 minutes ago Add Top Stories - Reuters to My Yahoo! By Daren Butler ISTANBUL (Reuters) - Suspected Islamist suicide car bombers killed at least 26 people and wounded hundreds in Istanbul on Thursday in a strike against Britain that U.S. and British leaders called a challenge to their war on terror. The bombings wrecked the British consulate and the HSBC Bank headquarters in Istanbul while President Bush (news - web sites)was in London to meet British Prime Minister Tony Blair (news - web sites), his chief ally in the war in Iraq (news - web sites). The mission's chaplain said Consul-General Roger Short, a career diplomat, was among 15 killed at the British mission. The blast left a huge crater. "We knew it was a bomb when an arm came flying through the window," said a doctor at a clinic near the HSBC blast. At both places, men and women wept. Turkey's interior minister said at least 26 people had been killed. A health official said 390 people were wounded. Only five days ago, suicide bombers carried out a twin attack on Istanbul synagogues, killing 25 people. "These were probably suicide attacks," the minister, Abdulkadir Aksu, said on CNN television. British Foreign Secretary Jack Straw said the strikes bore "all the hallmarks of the international terrorism operations practiced by al Qaeda and associated organizations." Washington blames al Qaeda for the September 11 U.S. attacks. WAR AGAINST EVIL Blair told a London news conference with Bush that the "terrorist outrage" showed democracy was fighting a war against evil. Washington has long promoted Turkey, the only Muslim NATO (news - web sites) member, as a model Islamic democracy that could be emulated by other Islamic countries. "I heard a large bang. I thought it was an earthquake (news - web sites)," Adnan Akyildiz, who was working at the consulate, said. "I threw myself out of the window...the scene was horrendous -- the gate, the consulate, the buildings were all demolished. A car was on fire. "Then I looked for my friends, I saw four of the other cleaners dead; two of them were husband and wife." A street that moments earlier was teeming with traffic and pedestrians lay littered with rubble and wrecked cars as thick, black smoke rose into a blue sky. A witness reported a green van with the markings of a food company driving into the gate of the consulate as it exploded, the same devastating technique used five days before in the synagogue attacks. A caller to Anatolian news agency claimed responsibility on behalf of Osama bin Laden (news - web sites)'s al Qaeda network and a Turkish group known as the Islamic Great Eastern Raiders Front (IBDA-C) and linked to Saturday's bombings. The first of Thursday's blasts hit a wide avenue in the financial district, flanked by the towering HSBC building and a popular new glass-fronted shopping mall. The target of the second, the consulate, was set in a narrow street of older stone buildings in an area brimming with shops, bars and restaurants. WASHINGTON ALLY Bush expressed grief over the attacks. "Great Britain and America and other free nations are united...in our determination to fight and defeat this evil wherever it is found." Turkey is one of Washington's closest political and military allies in the Muslim world -- a relationship that singles it out as a possible target for Islamist militants. Its government has Islamist roots but its policies are strongly pro-Western. The attacks shocked world markets, raising fears of more sustained and frequent attacks. European stocks sank and gold, seen as a relatively risk free investment in times of uncertainty, firmed. Turkish Foreign Minister Abdullah Gul said Turkey would not bow to terror. "We will continue our fight against terrorism," he told reporters in Stockholm. "This time it was British, last week it was two synagogues." Western intelligence has long feared militants could launch attacks on "soft targets" in countries such as Turkey. A unit of al Qaeda claimed responsibility for the Saturday attacks and warned that the Islamist network was planning more attacks against the United States and its allies. The attacks could deal a tremendous blow to a Turkish economy struggling with recession and facing huge debt repayments over the next year. A tenuous return of foreign investment could be put at risk by any atmosphere of danger. The Istanbul stock exchange was closed after the explosions, but not before the stock index had dived 7.37 percent amid panic sales. Banks ceased quotes on the Turkish interbank foreign exchange market.

To: MulhollandDrive who wrote (49064)	11/20/2003 11:29:22 AM
From: AugustWest	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 57110

Not sure I've heard of that one unless it was a few or more years ago. seems I do recall some photos of a plane half in a high rise apt complex But I don't recall if there was coke and alcohol involved. It is remarkable though how many commercial pilots used to get rather saucy while flying back in the 70s Before it became a high profile problem. er, at least enough passengers complained about it to make it a problem<G>