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Two Turkish Hezbollah sadists killed
2002-03-08
  • Turkish security forces killed two members of the radical Islamic organization Hezbollah in a major operation in southern province of Adana. During the operation, nine police officers were also injured when the pair, refusing to surrender, threw hand grenades at them. Before dawn, anti-terrorist police surrounded a house and killed two of them. The dead Hezbollah members were identified as Habip Dag, 42, who was one of the group officers in charge of the military wing of the organization in the province of Mardin, and Arif Keser, 37, who was an officer in charge of the military wing in the province of Gaziantep.

    In recent years Hezbollah, which wants to replace Turkey’s secular government with an Islamic one but has no connection with the Lebanese organisation of the same name, has begun to pose a threat to the Turkish government.
    This is a pretty nasty group. There were suspicions that its genesis was helped along by the Turkish government as a counterweight to the Kurdish nationalist movement in southern Turkey. Huseyin Velioglu, the group's founder and leader, was a sadist who videotaped over fifty grisly torture-murders. He was bumped off by a sniper in a raid in 1997, but his successors seem to be continuing the tradition.
    • Posted by:Fred Pruitt

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