Posted on 06/30/2016 6:58:06 AM PDT by BenLurkin
An unnamed Turkish official confirmed for Reuters news agency the attackers' countries of origin after Turkish media reports.
Some agencies named one of the men as Osman Vadinov, said to have crossed into Turkey from the IS stronghold of Raqqa in Syria in 2015.
Reports that he was a Chechen have been denied by an unnamed police source in the North Caucasus, Russia's Interfax news agency reports.
IS has long recruited members from mainly Muslim parts of the former USSR, with at least 2,200 believed to have come from Russia alone, according to a report last year.
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Yildirim said the three men had wanted to pass through the security system but on seeing the controls "took their weapons out of their suitcases and opened fire at random at the security check".
One attacker detonated his explosives downstairs in the arrivals terminal, Turkish officials said.
The second went upstairs and set off his explosives there while the third waited outside as passengers fled. He then detonated his explosives, causing the most casualties.
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Wow, we have Chechen mohammedan terrorist supporters on FR? Where are they? ANd how can I recognize them?
They are the ones that say every act of islamic terrorism is just Russians dressed up as ragheads.
Yikes, I haven’t run into them.
There were mohammedan terrorists long before there was a Russia....
But aren’t the Chechen terrorist as always musscums First!?!?!
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