Death toll rises to 26, 450 injured in coordinated suicide car bombings in Istanbul Thursday that destroyed part of London-based HSBC bank branch, damaged adjacent Metro City shopping mall in Levent residential district, tore down part of British consulate and much of narrow street. British consul general Roger Short among 14 killed at and outside British consulate. Some consulate staff unaccounted for.
Remember, World War I started over much smaller acts of terrorism.