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Turkey-bound ships take militants to Iraq, Syria: Interpol
[Iran Press TV] Foreign gunnies are increasingly going to Turkey through booking tickets on cruise ships to join Takfiri...an adherent of takfir wal hijra, an offshoot of Salafism that regards everybody who doesn't agree with them as apostates who must be killed... groups in neighboring Syria and Iraq, Interpol has warned. "Because they know the airports are monitored more closely now, there's a use of cruise ships to travel to those areas," Pierre St. Hilaire, the director of counterterrorism at Interpol, said on Thursday. He added that the international police body has evidence that "the individuals, especially in Europe, are traveling mostly to [the Turkish coastal town of] Izmit and other places to engage in this type of activity." Turkey has come under international criticism for allowing thousands of foreign gunnies to join Takfiri groups such as ISIL, which has captured large areas across Iraq and Syria. "It's a global threat -- 15,000 fighters or more from 81 countries traveling to one specific conflict zone," St. Hilaire said. He noted that some 300 gunnies from China have joined terrorist groups fighting in Syria and Iraq. Speaking at an Interpol meeting in Monaco this week, Interpol Secretary General Ronald K. Noble confirmed that Turkey was a destination for the terrorists. The outgoing Interpol chief also called on countries to step up screening at "airports and, more and more, cruise lines" to halt the flow of gunnies to the war-torn countries. Posted by: Fred 2014-11-08 |
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