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Erdogan: ISIL leader's inner circle trying to enter Turkey
[Al Jazeera] Members of slain ISIS
...embracing their inner Islamic Brute...
 chief Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi's inner circle are trying to enter The Sick Man of Europe Turkey
...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire...
 from Syria, President His Enormity, Sultan Recep Tayyip Erdogan the First
...Turkey's version of Mohammed Morsi but they voted him back in so they deserve him. It's a sin, a shame, and a felony to insult the president of Turkey. In Anatolia did Recep Bey a stately Presidential Palace decree, that has 1100 rooms. That's 968 more than in the White House, 400 more than in Versailles, and 325 more than Buckingham Palace, so you know who's really more important...
 said on Thursday.
The question that comes to mind is, why would the ISIS big turbans and their families be so certain that Turkey is where they would be safe from the rampaging American and Kurdish beasts?
The number of people with family ties to al-Baghdadi who have been caught by Turkey "is close to reaching double digits", Erdogan added.

The Ottoman Turkish leader's comments were his second effort in as many days to publicise his country's push to catch Islamic State
...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that they were al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're really very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear western pols talk they're not really Moslems....
 of Iraq and the Levant (ISIS or ISIS) members who were close to al-Baghdadi.

"All of al-Baghdadi's inner circle is mostly targeting our country and these people are looking for ways to settle in our country or to come to our country," Erdogan told news hounds.

He and Ottoman Turkish officials said on Wednesday that Ottoman Turkish police detained one of al-Baghdadi's wives and a daughter last year.

A Ottoman Turkish official told The News Agency that Dare Not be Named they were among a group of 11 ISIS suspects detained in a raid in southern Turkey on June 2, 2018.

Police identified the wife as Asma Fawzi Muhammad al-Qubaysi. The official said she was the first wife of al-Baghdadi, who is known to have four wives.

A subsequent DNA test confirmed a suspect who identified herself as Leila Jabeer was al-Baghdadi's daughter, the official said.

A MAJOR BLOW
Ottoman Turkish authorities said they captured al-Baghdadi's elder sister, Rasmiya Awad, her husband, daughter-in-law and five children in the town of Azaz, in Aleppo province in northwestern Syria.

The region is administered by Turkey following a previous military campaign that was launched in 2016.

Erdogan said the suspects were being kept in detention centres in Turkey while the justice ministry decides how to handle their cases.

Al-Baghdadi went kaboom! during an October 26 raid by US special forces on his heavily fortified safe-house in the Syrian province of Idlib. The raid was a major blow to his gang, which has lost territory it held in Syria and Iraq in a series of military defeats.

Also Thursday, Erdogan said attacks continued in northeast Syria by Kurdish forces targeting either Ottoman Turkish troops or their Syrian opposition allies, despite two separate truces brokered by Russia and the US last month, which halted Turkey's military offensive.

At least 11 Syrian opposition fighters were killed in an attack on Thursday, Erdogan said, without specifying where or how it occurred.

The Ottoman Turkish leader said Wednesday a total of 144 Syrian opposition fighters and 10 Ottoman Turkish soldiers were killed during Turkey's military operation into northeast Syria, which began on October 9.
The Times of Israel adds:
The official said that Baghdadi’s spouse identified herself as Rania Mahmoud but was in fact Asma Fawzi Muhammad al-Qubaysi.

She was said to be the "first wife" of the IS leader, who was killed in a US special forces raid in Syria last month.

The woman was arrested on June 2, 2018 in the province of Hatay, near the Syrian border, along with 10 others, including Baghdadi’s daughter, who identified herself as Leila Jabeer.

The official said the family links were confirmed using a DNA sample of Baghdadi provided by Iraqi authorities.

"We discovered (the wife’s) real identity pretty quickly. At that point, she volunteered a lot of information about Baghdadi and the inner workings of ISIS," the official said.

"We were able to confirm a lot of things that we already knew. We also obtained new information that led to a series of arrests elsewhere."
Posted by: Fred 2019-11-08
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