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and urged residents to comply with the
:'in~tructions of resist~nce." The group
IShnked to the Jordaman terrorist Abu
Musab al-Zarqawi and was responsible
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for the beheading on Tuesday of a South
Korean work,èr who had been kidnapped
near Falluja.
American officials have said that Za-
, rqawi was also behind the threat issued
• in a s~atement on Wednesday to assas- '
sinate,Allawi. In April, the same group
staged a bold daylight assault on the
main police station in Falluja.
If the attack in Baquba was the work
of the group, it would be the first time it
had taken part in an assault outside the
Falluja area.
Bullimore said he did not know'
whether Zarqawi or any group linked to ,
him was behind the strike. "I always
thought of him as :an up-and-coming
worldwide terrorist," he said.
Many of the insurgents wore black,
clothing with red headscarves wrapped
~l't!1nd their faces. An American pla-
~~nleader, Lieutenant T. J. Grider, said'
the enemy used complex tactics that he
had not seen guerrillas here employ before.
For example, he said, they set up
ambushes in w4ich they fired on Americans
after setting off roadside bombs.
The battle began after a night in
which an American sniper team killed
two insurgents trying to set up a roadside
bomb south of the city center, Bullimore
said. A platoon of Bradley fighting
vehicles returning from that mission
ran into heavy fire in the Mufrek
district.
The New York Times
Bomb in Istanbul kills 4
abe"ad of NATO summit
By Susan Sachs
"The bus was not the target," said
Muammer Guier, the governor ofIstanbu
l, after visiting the hospital in a res-,
idential district on the European side
of the city where some of the wounded
were being treated. "The bomb was being
carried from one place to another:'
ISTANBUL: A small bomb exploded
Thursday on a crowded public bus
here, killing 4 people and wounding at
least 14, as security officials prepared
to close off swaths of the city in advance
of the NATO summit meeting on
Monday.
Earlier on Thursday, a small percusrhe
Turkish authorities said they be- sion b9mb exploded outside an Ankara
lievèd the bomb was in the lap of a hotel where President George W. Bush
young female passenger who was prob- is scheduled to spend Saturday night
ably on her way to detonate it in anoth-', before meetings with the president and
er part of the city. prime mini,ster of Turkey. .
Their conclusion was apparently Two poh~e officers, memJ:>ers of, a
based on the discovery of a young" larg.e secunty force that was already
woman in her mid-20s, her body cut in " se~tmg .uI? a,round the .hotel, suffered
two at the waist who was found in the mmor mJunes, accord mg to reports
mangled bus after the explosion, wit- f~om private Turkish television stanesses
said.
tIons.
The hotel, a Hilton, is located at the
junction of a large public park and several
busy café-dotted streets in the center
of the Turkish capital.
A White House spokesman said
there were no plans to cancel the pres,c
ident's trip to Turkey,
'
Turkish security forces have been es~
pecially active in the last few weeks
preparing for the two-day sùmmit
meeting, which b;is already provoked a
handful of anti-rÎfATO and anti-American
demonstrations across Turkey.
,',Antiterrorism police officers said
earlier this week that they had broken
up a radical Islamic terrorist cell that
had been training to carry out suicide
bomb attacks at unspecified locations.
But the two bombs that exploded on
Thursday were attributed to obscure
leftist forces.
"Taking into account similar explosions
that have recently occurred in
some parts of Istanbul, there's a high
, possibility this is an illegalleft-wing organization
with a Marxist inclination,",
said GuIer, the city's governor.
Turkey, which hopes the NATO meeting
will prove a showcase for its aSi>irations
to join the European Union, has
invested close to $40 million to spruce
up the parks and streets ofIstanbul and
to provide security.
Officials have said that ships carrying
hazardous cargo will be banned
f~om the normally.b~sy Bosporus shippmg
lane that divides Istanbul into
Asian and European sectors.
Parts of the center of the city, on the
European side where the bus explosion
occurred, will be, sealed off; public
transit will be rerouted or shut down in
some areas; and many government offices
and factories will close.
Last November, Istanbul was rocked
by four truck-bomb attacks in five days.
Two synagogues, the British Consulate
and the.headquarters of the HSBC ban~
were hit, and the British consul general,
was killed.
The New YorÏ!.Times
,R~ers inside a bus that was hit by a bomb blast Thursday in Istanbul preparing to help
a victim onto a waiting stretcher. At least 14people were hurt in the explosion.
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