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Ankara Governor Gur: No Security Gap
2004-03-15
Ankara Governor Yahya Gur said on Friday that there was not any security gap in Ankara.
Just between your ears.
Gur and Ankara Police Chief Ercument Yilmaz visited the court house after a resonant bomb exploded on the fifth floor of the building.
I’ve never found a good definition of just what a "resonant" bomb is. Since resonant normally is used in reference to sound, is it a big noise maker?
Following their meeting with Chief Prosecutor Huseyin Boyrazoglu, Gur told reporters that windows shattered as the bomb left under a bench in the corridor of the fifth floor of the court house exploded around 5.05 p.m. Gur said that nobody was injured in the blast and noted that experts investigated the type of the bomb. Ankara Governor Gur said that nobody had claimed responsibility for the blast yet.
Give it time.
Noting that some people with wicked intentions chose the court house as their target, Gur said that Ankara had no security gap.
"Maybe a yawning yoid, but not a gap."
Meanwhile, security officials said that according to preliminary investigation, the resonant bomb which exploded in the court house was similar to that exploded in the Justice Ministry’s Center of Education for Trainee Judges and Prosecutors in August 2003 which wounded 17 security officials. A bomb had exploded in the garden of the Justice Ministry’s Center of Education for Trainee Judges and Prosecutors on August 1, 2003 when policemen were examining a suspicious bag. Seventeen policemen had been injured in the blast.
Memo to Turkish police, when investigating a suspicious bag, let one guy do it and keep your distance.
Posted by:Steve

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