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...nearly simultaneous blasts sent waves of horror through the crowded streets of Turkey's largest city. Glass exploded from windows, cars burst into flames, debris and choking smoke filled the streets. Stopping an insistent woman from moving closer to the carnage, a police officer told her, "Sorry, beyond this you will be walking on bits of people." Inside the consulate, the body of Short's husband Roger, 58, a career diplomat, was buried under a six-foot pile of wreckage. A rescue worker, cloaked in dust as he frantically dug, reported, "We're not pulling anyone out intact...
Coinciding dramatically with President George W. Bush's state visit to Britain, the violence served up a taunting reminder that his war on terrorism is far from won. Indeed, Turkey appeared to be the newest front in a wave of terrorism strikes that have spread across the Muslim world in the past six months from Iraq to Morocco to Saudi Arabia to Indonesia, making this Ramadan holiday a bloody season. Fearing the campaign was not 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...
Rather than being defeated by the U.S.-led war on terrorism, Islamic militants seem to be methodically widening their holy war against the U.S. and its allies. Turkey made an obvious target. Even under the current Islamic-party government, democratic Turkey has remained staunchly secular and pro-Western. It was the first Muslim nation to recognize Israel, and cultivates extensive ties with the Jewish state. Long a faithful U.S. ally and member of NATO, Turkey aspires to join the European Union. Although its populace bitterly opposed the war in Iraq and its Parliament refused to let the U.S. deploy soldiers...
...successfully attacked in Yemen in 2000, terrorists, since the message went out, have struck the three others. But a former U.S. counterterrorism official says that much as terrorists like to hit targets with such high symbolic value, they plan first with an eye to operational success. "Going after Turkey because of its relationship with Israel or the U.S. is secondary or tertiary," he says. "They went after Turkey because there were available targets. They act where they can--and then go for a message...
...changeover reported 3,000 cases of counterfeit euros last year. This year, they've seen 15,000, mostly originating in Bulgaria, says Erich Zwettler, an anticounterfeiting investigator in Vienna. Next door in the German state of Bavaria, police also report an increase in forgeries from Lithuania, Italy and Turkey (mainly coins). Some 7,500 cases are awaiting trial in Bavaria alone. Police say that the most commonly faked euro bills - 50s, 20s, 100s and 200s, in that order - could become so widespread that vendors will refuse to accept them. Seven years ago, the U.S. Treasury was compelled to release redesigned...