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| The Grand Turk |
| Turkey Detains Japanese 'Seeking to Join IS' in Syria |
| 2016-03-24 |
| [An Nahar] ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire.... has detained a Japanese citizen in the south of the country on suspicion of seeking to cross the border into Syria to join 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.... (IS) jihadists, the Dogan news agency said on Wednesday. The young man aged 24, named as M.M., was detained late on Tuesday in the Nizip district of the southern city of Gaziantep, close to the Syrian border. According to Dogan, he had admitted to wanting to travel to Syria after getting to know an unnamed contact by telephone and then agreeing the cross the frontier. He will be deported from Turkey back to Japan once the investigation is completed, the agency added. It said he was detained during a routine check by the Turkish gendarmerie while being driven towards the border settlement of Karkamis. The official Anatolia news agency said police had confirmed his contacts with jihadists by examining messages on his mobile phone. Long accused of not doing enough to police its border with Syria, Turkey has in the last months tightened controls, detaining dozens of foreign jihadists. The arrest of a Japanese citizen is hugely unusual, as most of those detained seeking to cross the border come from countries with large Muslim populations. Images published by Dogan showed the bespectacled young man kneeling in the middle of the road with his hands above his head, guarded by an armed soldier. Turkish officials said security forces on Tuesday incarcerated I ain't sayin' nuttin' widdout me mout'piece! 10 suspected Islamic State (IS) members at the Syrian border in the Gaziantep region, including a would-be jacket wallah. Their nationalities were not disclosed. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #1 Hari-Kari by drone. A thousand lives for the Caliph! He could have saved money and gone to Aokigahara. |
| Posted by: Shipman 2016-03-24 16:37 |