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11 ISIL suspects arrested over Istanbul club attack
[Hurriyet Daily News] Police have locked awayYez got nuttin' on me, coppers! Nuttin'! 11 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.... Iraq and Levant (ISIS) members in connection with a deadly attack on an Istanbul nightclub in the early hours of the new year, a police official said Jan. 26. The suspects are women of foreign nationality, the official said on condition of anonymity due to restrictions on speaking to the media. Police said the women possessed fake passports, false Syrian identities and were planning terror attacks at tourist locations in Izmir. The women are among 21 suspects who were detained Jan. 4 by counter-terrorism officers at four addresses in the Bornova and Buca districts of Izmir. Investigations are underway on the remaining 10 male suspects. All 21 suspects are believed to have lived in the Central Anatolian province of Konya with the suspected attacker of the Istanbul club, Abdulkadir Masharipov, according to officials. Police seized 41 foreign passports, considered fake, and 15 false identity documents issued to foreign nationals in ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire.... , during the Jan. 4 operation. Police said they found a GPS device at one address that was used in conflict areas, adding that ISIS members determined meeting points by positioning each other with the device. The suspects were in contact with ISIS in conflict areas, according to police. They also gave the impression that they had rented a house with their families and were living a normal life in Izmir, police added. Night vision equipment, a sniper scope, an ammunition belt and other military equipment were also found during the raids, according to police. At least 39 people, including a police officer, were killed when Masharipov allegedly shot up the Reina nightclub in the Ortaköy neighborhood at about 1:15 a.m. on Jan. 1. Masharipov was captured last week on the outskirts of Istanbul late on Jan. 16. Posted by: Fred 2017-01-28 |
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