The Monsters Never Rest

While Americans pay tribute today to those murdered by the Islamofascist animals on 9/11/01, bloodthirsty savages keep plotting and trying to kill innocent people.

Turkish police foil bomb plot

ANKARA (Reuters) - Turkish police foiled a bomb attack in Ankara on Tuesday, the sixth anniversary of 9/11 attacks on the United States, averting what officials said would have been a disaster for the capital.

Ankara governor Kemal Onal said police had found a van packed with explosives in a multi-storey car park in a central district of the city of four million. Shops and offices in the area were quickly evacuated.

"The police efforts prevented a possible disaster...It is too early to say who was behind this but the bomb was big and I do not want to think what might have happened if it had gone off," Onal told reporters.

I don't think it's too early to say who's behind it.

Anyone want to take a guess?

Private broadcaster NTV said police had found about 300 kg of explosives in the van, which had been parked on the second floor of the car park. The state Anatolian news agency said it took bomb disposal experts three hours to deactivate the bomb.

Kurdish separatists, ultra-leftists and Islamist militants have all carried out attacks in Turkey in recent years.

In November 2003, more than 60 people were killed in al Qaeda-backed suicide bomb attacks on two synagogues, the British Consulate and the HSBC bank in Turkey's largest city, Istanbul.

Police threw a wide cordon around the Ankara car park after finding a suspicious minibus. Sniffer dogs were at the scene.

"Police ordered us to evacuate our building. People panicked and started running. Now we are waiting in the bazaar near the car park for permission to return," said Abbas Yuksel, 38, who works for a construction company based in the area.

Onal noted that September 11 and 12 were particularly sensitive days. The world remembers on Tuesday al Qaeda attacks on New York and Washington, while Turkey will mark the anniversary of its 1980 military coup on Wednesday -- a possible focus for leftist groups.

A U.S. air base in western Germany received a bomb threat on Monday evening, prompting a large operation by local police and American forces to secure the site, police said on Tuesday.