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The Grand Turk
Turkey announces arrest of 12 foreign ISIS members attempting to enter Syria
2021-01-28
[AlMasdar] On Wednesday, the Ottoman Turkish Ministry of Defense announced the arrest of 12 snuffies belonging to the Islamic State
...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that they were al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're really 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 western pols talk they're not really Moslems....
(ISIS/ISIS/IS/ISIS), including five Russians, on the border with Syria.

The Ottoman Turkish Ministry of Defense issued an official statement saying: "On December 31, 2020, 12 terrorist Lions of Islam were arrested at a checkpoint near the city of Rikhanli in the Ottoman Turkish province of Hatay."

The statement added: "The Lions of Islam tried to enter the country by crossing the Syrian border illegally, and it was found that five of the snuffies have Russian nationality, four from Uzbekistan and three from Kyrgyzstan."

In addition, the Ottoman Turkish security authorities have recently arrested large numbers of ISIS members who have European nationalities during Operation Peace Spring carried out by the Ottoman Turkish forces last month in the northeastern region of Syria.
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