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The Grand Turk
Suicide bomber kills dozens in Turkey near border with Syria
2015-07-21
[TELEGRAPH.CO.UK] A suspected female Islamic State
...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems....
jacket wallah has set off an kaboom near a cultural centre hosting youth activists in a Turkish town near the border with Syria, leaving 31 dead and scores injured.

The blast destroyed the centre in Suruc, just a few miles from the Syrian flashpoint of Kobane - which was itself later hit in a co-ordinated suicide boom-mobileing.

Most of the dead were university students with the Federation of Socialist Youths, who had been planning a mission to help rebuild Kobane, which was retaken by Kurds from Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant
... the current version of al-Qaeda in Iraq, just as blood-thirsty and well-beloved as the original...
(Isil) forces of Evil earlier this year.

If Isil's role is confirmed, it would be one of the Lion of Islam group's deadliest strike on Turkish soil to date.

Recep Tayyip Erdogan
... Turkey's version of Mohammed Morsi but they voted him back in so they deserve him...
, the Turkish president, condemned the attack which left 100 injured as an "act of terror", saying his nation was "drowning in grief".
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