today, shepard. now, a contact at fox turkey tells us that he actually had to go through two roadblocks before he got to the security point at the embassy where he blew himself up, and it s not clear how he got that far, but the state department is describing the point where the bomber detonated his vest as the first security point on the embassy compound. in any event, the guard was killed outside, but on the other side of that glass, two staffers were injured, not badly, and that particular point, shep, is about 20 yards from the main embassy compound. shepard: what more do we know about this group, amy he? reporter: well, this group, it s called the revolutionary peoples liberation hardy front, and it s on the u.s. and eu terrorist list. very anti-american, very anti-nato. they attacked turkish military and security installations. at some point that switched and
presence in turkey. we ve seen the group target u.s. military in the past. in fact, one of the telltale signs of the group is it targets u.s. deployment in turkey whenever the united states sends troops and hardware into turkey. reporter: experts add that more u.s. support for turkey would likely result in more violence. shep? shepard: but it s not like support for turkey s going away. reporter: no, because turkey is a very key nato ally and a key partner in the middle east. if you look at the region, it kind of makes sense. you ve got u.s. military action in that region that turkey has supported. they ve provided air basees for u.s. jets. turkey also serves as kind of a buffer zone to help stop terrorism and islam i can extremism. if you look at the u united stas chess board, turkey is ary region. turkey is the only country that borders both iran, iraq, and syria. whatever the u.s. policy is,
protect itself. less than a week ago nato reported that at least one of those missile systems was operational and ready to go. trace gallagher live with an update for us. trace, the u.s. sending weapons to turkey tends to generate, well, resistance. reporter: as we saw here, shep, along with those pa patrit missiles, the u.s. sent 400 troops to help man the missiles. since the syrian civil war began, the u.s. and turkey s relationship has gotten even closer. turkey has long been a recipient of u.s. arms. in the past 60 years, we ve given turkey nearly if $15 biln in arms and military aid. to expound on what you and amy colorado log were talkinkellogge group thought to be behind this has gotten smaller over the years but experts say they re very active, very anti-u.s. listen. it opposes the u.s. presence in turkey. it has always opposed the u.s.
they went after u.s. diplomats and u.s. military. they were particularly active during the gulf war, and they ve killed dozens of people since the 70s. they finance themselves by robberies and extortion. experts don t rule out they may have been subcontracted by another group. in fact, i was reading the newspapers a short while ago, shep. there was an article that said this was a splinter group of a larger organization backed by iran and syria. now, we don t have any confirmation of that, but again, there s always the possibility that they were subcontracted by someone else, the u.s. saying that they re following turkey s lead at this point but so far, turkey is just saying that it was this leftist group. shepard: amy kellogg in london. thanks so much. experts call ankara one of the safest cities in the region but consider turkey s neighbors, iran to the east, syria to the south and united states among the countries sending powerful patriot missiles to help turkey
american embassy in turkey, killed a turkish security guard in what the white house describes as a terrorist attack. the turkish prime minister said a marxist group likely carried out the attack, a group with anti-american and anti-nato gruesome, and the group is considered a terrorist organization. all of this months after militants in libya assaulted our post there in benghazi and killed four americans including our and. amy kellogg with the news. what do we know about the guy suspectesuspected of doing this. reporter: hi, shep. we know he was about 40 years old. he had been part of this marxist outlawed group that the prime minister talked about today. he had been involved in the late 90s o 90s in attacks. he had been put in jail. he had gone on this massive hunger strike and then he became very sick and he was released, and he had gone under the radar screen until this point, until