Wednesday - July 09, 2008
Six dead in US consulate attack in Istanbul
As baseball is to Americans and football and golf is to westerners in general, so killing for fun is to muzzies.
And we are NOT killing them fast enuff or in great enough numbers.
Turkey shooting: Six dead in US consulate attack in Istanbul
Last Updated: 12:02PM BST 09/07/2008Three policemen and three unidentified gunmen have been killed during a 15-minute gun battle at the United States consulate in Istanbul.
Four gunmen stormed a guard post near the main entrance of the high-walled compound at around 11am local time, reportedly shooting a Turkish police officer in the head.
A gunfight then broke out at the heavily-guarded compound, ending in the deaths of three of the assailants.
The city’s governor, Muammer Guler, said one police officer had died at the scene and two others had died of their wounds in hospital shortly after the attack.
Witnesses said the battle lasted for at least 15 minutes as the assailants, who had driven to the consulate, apparently tried to gain access.
Television pictures showed bodies lying on the pavement, with trails of blood and weapons around them.
Witness Yavuz Erkut Yuksel said the attackers got out of a white vehicle and surprised the officer at the guard post. “One of them approached a policeman while hiding his gun and shot him in the head,” he said.
Another witness described the attackers as “terrorists, with beards and long hair.”
“They [the assailants] were four people. Three of them got out of the car and fired at the police. I saw them dead afterwards lying on the ground and many more dead among the police,” said Enis Yilmaz, who was going to the consulate for a visa application.
The fourth assailant escaped in the vehicle, he added, and police confirmed they were searching for the vehicle.
Turkey has seen armed attacks from a variety of groups over the years, including Kurdish separatists and Islamist militants.
The US consulate building was fortified after home-grown Islamic militants linked to al-Qa’eda bombed two synagogues, the British Consulate and a British bank in Istanbul in 2003, killing 58 people.
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