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| Louai Sakka involved in Hariri killing? |
| 2007-03-23 |
| (AKI) - Several Turkish newspapers on Thursday claimed that a British man described by Turkish visa authorities as a United Nations officer secretely travelled to Turkey to meet a convicted Al-Qaeda terrorist serving a life imprisonment in connection with a series of deadly bomb blasts in 2003 against two synagogues, the British embassy and the HSBC bank. The mission is part of a probe by into possible links between the prisoner, Louai Sakka, a Syrian who was allegedly al-Qaeda's point-man in Turkey, and the 2005 assassination of former Lebanese prime minister Rafik Hariri, the reports claimed. The Briton identified in the reports as Alistair MacLeod also allegedly took a DNA sample from Sakka who is being held at Istanbul's Kandira prison. A Turkish man identified as Ahmet Kaya, and also described as a UN officer, allegedly accompanied Macleod during the mission, the newspapers claimed. Sakka was arrested in August 2005 when he was allegedly planning an attack on Israeli cruise ships visiting Turkish seaside resorts. Hariri was killed together with 22 other people in a 14 February 2005 bomb blast in Beirut. A UN investigative panel has implicated Lebanese and Syrian security officials in the attack. |
| Posted by:Fred |