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      Bombs Damage UK's HSBC Bank Branches in Turkey as Blair Is Due
      May 17 (Bloomberg) -- Bombs damaged four branches of British- owned
bank HSBC Holdings Plc in Istanbul and in the Turkish capital, Ankara, on
the eve of a visit by U.K. Prime Minister Tony Blair, police and HSBC
officials said.
      Two bombs went off at 10:20 p.m. local time yesterday in two branches
on the Asian side of Istanbul, police said in phone interviews. Nobody was
injured. The explosions caused minor damage, such as shattering windows, the
police said. Around midnight, explosions caused similar damage at two
branches in downtown Ankara, a spokesman for HSBC Turkey said.
      Suicide bombers killed 62 people in November in Istanbul in attacks
that targeted two synagogues, the British Consulate- General and the head
office of HSBC's Turkish unit. Turkey's government blamed local terrorist
cells linked to the al-Qaeda network for those. There was no immediate claim
of responsibility for last night's attacks.
      Blair is scheduled to visit Ankara today for talks with Turkish Prime
Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan and President Ahmet Necdet Sezer. Blair's
visit comes as the European Union is debating whether to start membership
talks with Turkey. The U.K. has been among Turkey's most ardent backers for
EU membership. France leads opponents of Turkey's membership.
      Earlier this month, Turkish prosecutors charged nine people with
plotting to bomb a North Atlantic Treaty Organization summit due to be held
in Istanbul in June. The suspects are accused of planning a suicide attack
on world leaders, including U.S. President George W. Bush, at the June 28-29
summit.
      The four explosions last night were all caused by ``sound bombs,''
police officers said. Turkish police use the term for homemade devices that
explode with great noise yet have limited damage capacity. Bank branches and
automatic teller machines in Turkish cities were targeted by such bombs
almost daily in the early 1990s by outlawed left-wing groups, who said they
saw banks as the agents of capitalism.
      Those groups have been quiet in the last five years while bomb attacks
by Islamic militants have increased. In March, two suicide bombers attacked
a Masonic lodge in Istanbul, killing a waiter. While al-Qaeda claimed
responsibility for that attack, Turkish police found no proven links between
the attackers and any known terrorist group.
To contact the reporter on this story:
Yalman Onaran in Istanbul at  
yon...@bloomberg.net
.
To contact the editors responsible for this story:
Paul Tighe at  
pti...@bloomberg.net
Last Updated: May 17, 2004 03:28 EDT
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      Purtroppo se la scena internazionale è questa................l'AT può
andare a farsi friggere..........

       Two bombs went off at 10:20 p.m. local time yesterday in two
branches
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 *** è di ieri....
A parte il fatto che sono esplose stanotte alle 10.20.........tu ne eri già
al corrente stamattina?
L'ho postata perchè le ns rassegne stampa non ne fanno menzione.............
Anche se, trattandosi di  "sound-bombs", non avrebbero potuto provocare
danni ingenti a cose o persone....perchè non parlarne?