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Cafer Yilmaz was at work in his bakery on a broad boulevard in Istanbul's modern new financial district at about 11 a.m. last Thursday when a tremendous bang shook down the building's windows and walls. Across the street, yellow smoke poured from the 18-story headquarters of the British-owned HSBC bank, where a pickup truck packed with homemade bombs had just set off a mighty explosion. "That first moment was not at all like you would imagine from the movies," Yilmaz says. "No one was screaming or running. If you had slapped me, I would probably have...
...twin bombings took the lives of at least 32 people, almost all Turkish citizens, and wounded more than 450. That was shock enough for the country, but the attacks came on the heels of similarly synchronized blasts just five days earlier at Istanbul's two main synagogues, assaults that had killed 25 and injured more than 300, also mostly Turks. Said Semih Idiz, a veteran columnist for the Aksam newspaper: "It's our 9/11...
...over, London and Washington issued broad warnings of possible imminent attacks against British and American interests abroad. In Muslim countries, the chosen targets have symbolized mainly Western and Jewish interests--Jakarta's J.W. Marriott Hotel, Casablanca's tourist sites and Jewish centers, residential compounds for foreign workers in Riyadh, Istanbul's synagogues and British offices. But a second assault in Riyadh Nov. 8 was on a compound housing mainly Muslims and Arabs. And the locale of all these strikes may contain a grim message for Muslims: Beware, anyone who cooperates with the West--the danger extends...
...suicide bombings of British targets in Istanbul trigger a Europe-wide crackdown? Eleven terror suspects were taken into custody in Western Europe last week - three in Italy, seven in Britain, and one in Germany - as a top Italian antiterror official told time that terror groups "are trying to move closer to [striking in] European territory." Security agencies were on high alert; Italian officials even discussed closing the Rome and Milan metros in the final 48 hours of Ramadan. But authorities say last week's arrests were the culmination of long investigations, not hasty responses to the Istanbul blasts. And some...
...Turkey tries to recover from the bombings in Istanbul, investigators are homing in on several obscure Islamic militant groups, notably Turkish Hizballah, a senior police official tells TIME. Security analysts say Hizballah, not to be confused with the Lebanese organization that shares its name, is a loose association of some 20,000 Islamic extremists based in Bingol, an impoverished province on the Iraq border. Officials say three of the four bombers who carried out the suicide attacks - and many of their accomplices - called the province home. If Turkish authorities are right, Hizballah may be the latest group to have joined...