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The Grand Turk
Day 4: Istanbul nightclub killer 'was sneaked into Turkey by sophisticated ISIS network under a secret codename and hidden in a safe house' before carrying out Turkish massacre
2017-01-05
[DailyMail]
  • The still-unnamed killer is codenamed 'Abu Muhammed Horasani'; his ISIS handler is codenamed 'Teacher Yusuf'

  • The three families in the Konya ISIS cell were detained after they fled to Izmir: 27 men and women and 20 children. Eleven men and nine women were subsequently arrested

  • Konya cell members hail from Syria, Dagestan, Xinjian/East Turkestan
    ...homeland of most of the Uighurs...
    and Kyrgyzstan

  • After the attack the killer took a taxi to a Uighur restaurant, where he was given money for the fare

  • Seven Uighurs have been detained for questioning
Posted by:trailing wife

#2  I have a sense of 'too many moving parts'.

I prefer a two stage scene of:
1) simple walk-on execution
2) elaborate staging by authorities of artifacts and events to coincide with the event
Posted by: Skidmark   2017-01-05 13:53  

#1  Sneaked in and sneaked out. This was no suicidal whack job. This guy expected to get away with it and so he did.
Posted by: Abu Uluque   2017-01-05 12:41  

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