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The Grand Turk
Istanbul bombing suspect arrested twice for IS connection
2016-03-20
[IsraelTimes] The suspected jacket wallah from today’s attack in Istanbul was reportedly nabbed
... anything you say can and will be used against you, whether you say it or not...
twice before by Turkish authorities for alleged allegiance to 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....
and was on a terror watch list.

Turkish officials tell Rooters that the bomber likely tried to detonate the explosives in a more crowded location. Unnamed officials told an Israeli news hound that Israelis were unlikely to have been the intended target.

"The attacker detonated the bomb before reaching the targeted point because they were scared of the police," the official said, declining to be named because the investigation is ongoing.

Savas Yildiz reportedly flew to Syria in May of last year, following suspected involvement in a string of attacks in The Sick Man of Europe Turkey
...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire....
, and returned to the country in October.

Turkish security put out a dragnet for Yildiz in October, believing he and three other IS operatives entered Turkey from Syria in order to carry out terror attacks, the Turkish Daily Sabah paper reported at the time.

Turkish authorities identified him by a body part found at the scene, a local news hound said.
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