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Turkish police kill suspected Islamic State suicide bomber in capital
[REUTERS] Turkish police rubbed out a 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.... bad boy overnight who was believed to be planning a suicide kaboom in the capital Ankara, the city's governor said on Wednesday. It was the latest in a series of counter-terrorist police operations coinciding with a ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire.... -backed rebel operation in Syria to drive the jihadists away from its southern border. Turkish security forces have meanwhile stepped up action against Kurdish bad boys, killing 14 Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) fighters in eastern Turkey in recent days, the interior minister said. Police tracked the Islamic State suspect to the ninth floor of a building on Ankara's outskirts, where he was killed in a shootout around 3 a.m. after opening fire in response to a call to surrender, the state-run Anadolu Agency said. "The terrorist is judged to have been planning to carry out a suicide kaboom and carried out reconnaissance around the old parliament building and Anitkabir," Governor Ercan Topaca wrote on Twitter, referring to the mausoleum of modern Turkey's founder Mustafa Kemal Ataturk. The suspect may have been targeting ceremonies to be held there on the Oct. 29 anniversary of the Turkish Republic's foundation or on Nov. 10 to commemorate Ataturk's death, Anadolu cited Topaca as saying. Police found kabooms including sticks of dynamite and ammonium nitrate at the scene, the governor said. Posted by: Fred 2016-10-20 |
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