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| Turkey asks Iraq to keep an eye out for hard boyz |
| 2005-07-13 |
| Turkey has asked Iraq's government to extradite two men on suspicion they took part in a string of al Qaeda-linked bombings in Istanbul in 2003, the Turkish foreign ministry said on Wednesday. Burhan Kus and Sadettin Akdas, both Turkish nationals, fled from Turkey after the four suicide bombings in Istanbul and are being held by the U.S. military in an Iraqi prison, authorities have said. "Iraqi authorities are continuing examination and evaluation of the files we have presented, and our ministry and Baghdad embassy is closely following the situation," the foreign ministry said in a statement. A Turkish cell belonging to Osama bin Laden's al Qaeda network claimed responsibility for the truck bomb attacks on two synagogues, the Turkish headquarters of London-based bank HSBC and the British consulate in Istanbul. More than 60 people, including the bombers, were killed and hundreds were wounded. |
| Posted by:Dan Darling |