Officials name US embassy bomber
Sunday 03 February 2013
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EmailTurkish officials said today that the suicide bomber who attacked the US embassy had already spent several years in prison on terror charges.
Ecevit Sanli killed himself and a Turkish security guard on Friday at the US embassy in Ankara.
The self-declared Marxist-Leninist DHKP/C claimed responsibility for the attack.
Mr Sanli spearheaded hunger strikes against maximum security prisons in the 1990s, leading to the deaths of dozens of inmates.
He was release on probation in 2001 after being diagnosed with a malnutrition-related brain disease.
Authorties said Mr Sanli used six kilos of TNT - enough to blow up a two-storey building - and a hand grenade in the attack.
Radical newspaper said DHKP/C has recently revived its interest in "regional issues" - such as anti-US and anti-Nato stance - and taken on a "more pro-(Syrian President Bashar) Assad position."
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