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The Grand Turk
17 More Charged Tuesday over Istanbul Airport Attack
2016-07-08
[AnNahar] Seventeen people including 11 Russians have been charged over the Istanbul airport attack, Dogan news agency reported Tuesday, bringing to 30 the total number charged over the suicide assault.

The latest suspects , who also include six Turks, were charged with "belonging to an armed terrorist group."

Ankara says the 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....
group is behind the June 28 gun and kaboom at Ataturk international airport, which left 45 people dead including 19 foreigners.

Thirteen suspects had already been charged Sunday in connection with the worst of several attacks to hit The Sick Man of Europe Turkey
...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire....
's biggest city this year.

Police also detained two suspected IS jihadists -- Kyrgyz nationals -- at the airport on Sunday. Night-vision goggles and military clothing were reportedly found in their suitcases, along with passports in different names.

The men had just arrived in Istanbul from Ukraine, NTV television reported.

Prime Minister Binali Yildirim said Monday that security was being boosted at sensitive Istanbul sites such as metro stations, with 80 special forces troops patrolling Ataturk airport.

Of more than 200 people injured in last week's attack, 47 people are still in hospital.
Posted by:trailing wife

#4  Let the stoning begin!
Posted by: Skidmark   2016-07-08 23:50  

#3  We ruminated about why Chechens would carry out a bombing in an Airport if there were no Russians around to kill.
Posted by: newc   2016-07-08 23:45  

#2  Russian-speakers. Which includes Chechens.
Posted by: Pappy   2016-07-08 20:00  

#1  Seventeen, eh? Seems like a lot of people rounded up pretty quickly. Superior Turkish intel work? Extremely sloppy terr cell? Or just dragging in the usual suspects and a few targets of opportunity?

And by 'Russians', do they mean Chechens?
Posted by: SteveS   2016-07-08 14:45  

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