Turkey Terror Suspect Warns of Attacks
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By JAMES C. HELICKE
Associated Press Writer
September 13, 2004, 3:11 PM EDT
ISTANBUL, Turkey -- A suspected leader of a cell accused in deadly suicide attacks in Turkey boasted Monday that he was an "al-Qaida warrior" and warned in court of future attacks if Turkey continued to support the United States.
Defendant Harun Ilhan told the court that he and two other suspected ringleaders who remain at large -- Habib Akdas and Gurcan Bac -- were behind the November bombings that left 61 people dead in Istanbul.
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This is a twist and a possible 20 countries involved...
South Africa claims Libya link in WMD probe
13.09.2004 3.35 am
PRETORIA - Arrests in a weapons of mass destruction investigation in South Africa are linked to Libya's abandoned nuclear programme, the country has said, playing down a connection to a global weapons black market.
South Africa made two fresh arrests this week which analysts linked to a worldwide weapons ring the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) says spans more than 20 countries. A local engineer initially charged has been freed with no explanation.
"So far, the evidence that we have ... relates to the Libyan programme," said Abdul Minty, chairman of South Africa's Council for the Non-Proliferation of Weapons of Mass Destruction.
"I don't think that we are one of the major ones (cogs in a global network). It would not be for us to say what the scale of it is," he said, seeking to bury media reports that saw a link to Iran.
Police on Wednesday arrested engineer Gerhard Wisser, 66, a German living in South Africa, and colleague Daniel Geiges, 65, after withdrawing charges against a third man, engineer Johan Meyer.
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