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| The Grand Turk | |
| Turkish prosecutor: Police foil New Year's eve attack | |
| 2015-12-31 | |
| [AlAhram] Turkish police on Wednesday detained two 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.... holy warriors who were believed to be planning suicide kabooms during New Year celebrations in central Ankara, officials said. The two men were detained in a raid on a cell house in the low-income Mamak neighborhood of Ankara, where police also seized a boom jacket armed with a bomb, an bomb that was fortified with ball bearings and metal sticks and placed inside a back-pack as well as bomb-making equipment, according to the Ankara Chief Prosecutor's office. The two Turkish nationals, identified by their initials M.C. and A.Y., were being questioned by anti-terrorism police. The prosecutor's office said the men had staked out possible locations in Ankara, where they could carry out the attacks. The state-run Anadolu Agency, quoting unnamed police and judiciary officials, said the would-be-attackers were planning to detonate the bombs at two locations near bars and a shopping mall near ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire.... 's central Kizilay district during the celebrations. "They were caught before they had the opportunity to take action," the prosecutor's office said. The private NTV news channel, quoting security sources, said the two had "frequently" moved in and out of Syria and that security officials had been monitoring their movements for the past month.
...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire.... 's biggest city Istanbul, 15,000 police will be deployed to ensure security over the New Year, including 5,000 in the area around the central Taksim Square, the city's deputy police security chief Zafer Baybaba said. European capitals have also beefed up security after the coordinated attacks in Gay Paree which left 130 people dead and hundreds more maimed on November 13. Austrian police said Saturday they had stepped up security in Vienna and other cities after receiving a warning of possible attacks during the holiday season. And Moscow's Red Square, traditionally a place where people gather to ring in the New Year, will be closed to revellers on December 31 amid mounting security concerns. | |
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