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| Turkish police seize bomb-making materials in attacks probe | |
| 2003-12-23 | |
| Turkish police have seized a large quantity of bomb-making materials, including fertilizer, as part of their investigations into last months’ deadly suicide bombings in Istanbul, press reports said on Tuesday. They’ve been very busy rolling the bad guys up. The materials include potassium nitrate fertilizer, explosives and electronic detonators, the newspapers Vatan and Sabah reported. They were found in the attic of a house in the city. The discovery followed a confession by Osman Eken, who has been taken into custody following the suicide attacks on November 15 and 20 in which 62 people were killed, including the four bombers. Nitrate-based bombs were used in the attacks against two synagogues, followed by the British consulate and offices of the London-based HSBC bank five days later. Sabah newspaper quoted Eken as having told police that the chemical fertilizer seized by police was to have been used for future attacks in the city. Eken has been singing like a bird.
I thought they had fled to Iran? Their identities and details have been passed on to the US authorities by Turkey’s security services, the newspaper added. About 30 suspects have been charged over the four suicide bombings in Istanbul for which the Al Qaeda network and the radical Islamist IBDA-C group have claimed responsibility. | |
| Posted by:Steve |
| #2 Turkish bombing have identical MO to Oklahoma City? Murrah=Murat? Can't be! |
| Posted by: john 2003-12-23 10:29:56 PM |
| #1 Most of the Turkish al-Qaeda (or at least those directly involved in the Istanbooms) beat it for Syria or Iran after the attacks. The Syrians were said to have repatriated a couple dozen, but it looks like some slipped through the cracks and the Medes and the Persians tossed a few PKK Ankara's way to assuage their concern about Iranian involvement in the Istanbooms. |
| Posted by: Dan Darling 2003-12-23 12:13:02 PM |