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ISIS 'New Year suicide bombing' suspects arrested in Turkey
[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] An Ankara court on Saturday remanded in jug pending trial two Turkish men suspected of belonging to ISIS and planning a double suicide kaboom in the capital on New Year's Eve.Musa Canoz, 28, and Adnan Yildirim, 40, who were detained in a raid on Wednesday, were tossed in the calaboose Drop the gat, Rocky, or you're a dead 'un! on charges of "possessing kabooms" and "membership of a terrorist organization", the Anatolia news agency reported. They were sent to the Sincan prison in Ankara, it added. It was not clear when a trial may start. Turkish officials said the pair were planning to strike an area in the centre of the city that was expected to be packed with revellers on the night of December 31. In the end, the celebrations passed peacefully. ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire.... is on a high security alert after 103 people were killed on October 10 when two jacket wallahs destroyed a crowd of peace activists in Ankara in the worst attack in modern Turkey's history. The Hurriyet daily reported that the pair had left Ankara in 2013 to join up with IS forces in Syria, where they received bomb-making training. They then crossed back into Turkey in September this year, renting an apartment in the Mamak district of Ankara where they were detained. It said they had been given final instructions over the Internet by an IS handler, an Arab with the codename Ebu Enes, on the day they were detained. A third suspect, named as Z.A., has been detained on suspicion of providing logistical and transport support, it added. The suspected bombers are believed by Sherlocks to have been acting on the orders of IS headquarters in their self-declared capital in Raqa, Syria, rather than independently, it added. Long criticised by its allies for taking too soft a line against jihadists, Turkey is taking firmer action against the IS group on the border with Syria after being shaken by attacks on its soil and the Gay Paree assaults on November 13. Posted by: Fred 2016-01-03 |
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