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Turkey arrests 2 ISIS suspects at airport, seizes 150 passports
[AlAhram] Turkish authorities detained two suspected Islamic State...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allaharound with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not reallyMoslems.... Lions of Islam (ISIS) at Istanbul's main international airport carrying at least 150 original European passports, an official said Thursday. Counter-terror police detained the suspects, a Syrian and a Turk, at Ataturk Airport after they flew in from a European country, finding they had stuffed the passports into pizza ovens, media reports said earlier. "Airport police... found at least 150 fake passports among their personal belongings," a Turkish government official, who asked not to be named, told AFP. The private Dogan news agency said the police seized a total of 148 European passports hidden inside "five mini-pizza ovens". The suspects have been taken to the anti-terror headquarters of Istanbul police for questioning, it added. Two hidden cameras, scores of memory cards and SIM cards were also seized, it added. Dogan had said that the passports were all original. Long criticised for not doing enough to stem the flow of holy warrior fighters across its volatile border with Syria, ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire.... has stepped up fight after a number of deadly attacks on Turkish soil blamed on ISIS, which is also called ISIL or Daesh [Islamic State], making almost daily arrests of would-be holy warriors. "Today's arrests exemplify how effective the anti-ISIS measures have been," said the official. "We look forward to working more closely with source countries to keep ISIS fighters away from Syria." Interior Minister Efkan Ala said Thursday that Turkey has imposed entry bans on 33,746 terror suspects from 123 countries since the Syria conflict began. In addition, 2,783 holy warrior suspects from 89 countries have been detained in Turkey and deported. Posted by: trailing wife 2015-12-18 |
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