Balkans: June 11, 2003

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This didnt get a lot of press attention, probably because no one was hurt. Still, its a terror attack inside Turkey on US assets. Turkish police arrested a man (identified as a Turkish citizen) who tossed two hand grenades at the US consulate in Adana, Turkey. (The town is near the big NATO airbase at Incirlik.) The man was stopped by security personnel as he approached the consulate.