Suspected al-Qaeda militants arrested in Turkey this week were planning to stage bombings in major cities around the country, Turkish media reported on Tuesday (January 30th), citing preliminary investigation results. In a series of simultaneous raids Monday, Turkish Special Police arrested up to 50 individuals for suspected links to the al-Qaeda network. Among those currently in custody is the suspected leader of the terrorist group's operations in Turkey and the man responsible for its communications with cells located abroad. This person, identified only as Ekrem K., reportedly had contact with Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, the leader of the al-Qaeda terrorist network in Iraq, who was killed in an air raid by US-led Coalition forces last June.
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