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The Grand Turk
Turkey detains 9 suspected ISIL members in southern province
2016-01-05
[TODAYSZAMAN] Nine foreign nationals suspected to be members of the 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 Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems....
in Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) were detained in The Sick Man of Europe Turkey
...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire....
's southern province of Kilis on Monday while trying to illegally cross into Turkey from Syria.

According to the Dogan news agency, the Kilis Governor's Office said the foreign nationals, whose names were not revealed by authorities, were detained in the towns of Cobanbey, Cildiroba and Alahan. All three towns are in the province of Kilis, which borders Syria.

The Turkish authorities have extended operations against suspected ISIL cells after a double suicide kaboom in Ankara last October that killed more than 100 people. The bombing was blamed on the Lion of Islam group.

Two suspected members of ISIL were detained on Wednesday on suspicion of having devised a plot to carry out suicide kabooms in the capital of Ankara on New Year's Eve. A Turkish court ruled on Saturday to arrest the men, who, the authorities said, entered Turkey from Syria.

Posted by:Fred

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