WORLD KNOWN AS "TERRORISM"? OR JUST POLITICAL RIVALRY TERRORIZING EACH OTHER?

WORLD NEWS:

In all areas of the world there lies the so-called terrifying "TERRORISM" pointed to AL QAEDA, MNLF, ABU SAYAFF ETC..

The world has been disturbed by many bombing, endless death of innocent civilains, damaged of vast tract of properties and so on and so forth..But what is behnd all these? Are these all politically motivated?

Examples are posted below how a "TERRORISM" is more like a POLITICAL FIGHT!

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SOURCE : ABS CBN/ REUTERS

Reuters

ISTANBUL  - Bombs killed 14 people and wounded 140 in Istanbul late on Sunday, just hours ahead of a court case over banning the ruling party that has plunged Turkey into political turmoil.

 Officials said one loud blast brought people into the streets of a busy shopping area, then a larger bomb hidden in a rubbish bin exploded a few minutes and a few metres away, tearing through the crowds.

"This is a terror attack," city governor Muammer Guler told reporters at the scene, in a pedestrianised street where families gather in the evenings to dine, sip tea and stroll.

Television showed ambulances taking away the wounded in the Gungoren district of Turkey's biggest city, near the main airport. Among the rubble and glass of broken shop windows, men carried away the wounded and children cried.

"First a percussion bomb exploded and then a bomb in a garbage container," Deputy Prime Minister Hayati Yazici told reporters.

One witness said: "Tens of people were scattered around. People's heads, arms, were flying in the air."

Turkish media put the toll at 14 dead and 140 wounded. Earlier, officials confirmed 13 dead and more than 100 wounded.

"I condemn those who carried out this bombing, which shows us terrorism's inhumane desire for cruelty and violence without discriminating between men and women, young, old and children," President Abdullah Gul said in a statement.

Kurdish separatists, far-left groups and Islamists have all carried out bombings in Istanbul in the past.

Turkey has been plunged into political and economic uncertainty by the court case over banning the ruling party that begins on Monday.

The Constitutional Court will deliberate on whether the AK Party has engaged in Islamist activities and should be closed.

Police have also been widening an investigation into a suspected ultra-nationalist group accused of seeking to overthrow the government. So far 86 people have been arrested.

Turkey's military has been active in a campaign against Kurdish separatists in the southeast, saying earlier on Sunday its fighter jets had hit 12 rebel targets.

Governor Guler said the "heinous attack" in Istanbul was not a suicide bombing. The city straddles Europe and Asia. Gungoren is on the European side.

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IRAQ

The wife of Iraqi President Jalal Talabani escaped a bomb attack on Sunday in central Baghdad, but four of her bodyguards were wounded, security officials said.

The motorcade of Hero Ibrahim Ahmed was passing near the National Theatre in central Baghdad's Karrada district when it was hit by a bomb at around 10:00 am (0700 GMT), her head of security Adel Khawis told newswire AFP.

A source close to Talabani's office said the last vehicle in the motorcade was hit by the blast, wounding her four bodyguards.

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'Well equipped' terrorists

Mr Straw said everyone had to be "alive" to terrorism, but he had "personally seen no evidence which immediately links the al-Qaeda organisation to this outrage".

"We are assessing all the indications that there are and if there is a firm indication, we will make a public announcement about that."

Mr Straw added: "We have to be alive to the fact that there are appalling terrorists around the world, well organised and sadly, well equipped, capable of perpetrating this kind of outrage and this is what they have done today."

Speaking after Thursday's Cabinet meeting, Labour party chairman John Reid said: "Our thoughts are with all the families and this is an action that is to be utterly condemned by all civilised people and nations."

SOURCE: REUTERS/ABS CBN/ BUSINESS.COM/BBC