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Police seize Turkish Qaeda leader - report
Reuters UK ^ | Dec. 9, 2006 | Reuters

Posted on 12/09/2006 4:33:29 PM PST by FairOpinion

ISTANBUL (Reuters) - Turkish police have detained a lawyer who admitted he was the leader of al Qaeda in Turkey, Anatolian News Agency reported on Saturday.

Nine other suspects were also held.

Police seized bomb-making material and a compact disc set to explode when inserted into a computer -- the first time Turkish police had got hold of such a device -- the state-run agency said.

They also found maps of an oil refinery owned by the Tupras group in the house, the agency said.

Police could not confirm the report.

CNN Turk said the leader was a 25-year-old lawyer and two of the suspects were also members of the Great Islamic Eastern Warriors Front (IBDA-C), Anatolian said.

That group claimed joint responsibility with al Qaeda for two bombings at Istanbul synagogues and attacks on a British consulate and the HSBC bank in November 2003, in which more than 60 people were killed.

IBDA-C, on the European Union's terrorist list, is made up of Sunni Muslims seeking to create an Islamic state in Turkey.

The police swoop in Istanbul, Ankara and the western province of Izmir came after a year-long investigation and was carried out at the end of November, when Pope Benedict was visiting Turkey, private television NTV reported.

But no plans or information were found to suggest an attack was planned against the Pope, whose historic trip to Turkey was his first official visit to a Muslim country and was seen as a bid to improve relations between Christians and Muslims.

NTV had earlier this month reported several al Qaeda-linked detentions during the Pope's visit, without giving details.

Mainly Muslim but secular Turkey has arrested several al Qaeda suspects in recent years.


TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Front Page News; News/Current Events; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: alqaeda; alqaida; cd; cdbomb; compactdisc; globaljihad; jihad; terrorism; turkey; wot
Other articles mentioned that they captured some Al Qaeda terrorists, but not that one of them was their leader in Turkey.

This is another major victory in the War on Terror, that the MSM is downplaying. We ARE WINNING the War on Terror -- if only the MSM and leftists around the world would stop supporting them.

1 posted on 12/09/2006 4:33:33 PM PST by FairOpinion
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To: Cindy

PING -- the general news has been around, but this is the first info I've seen that they captured the Al Qaeda leader.

Also note the exploding CD.


2 posted on 12/09/2006 4:34:45 PM PST by FairOpinion
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"compact disc set to explode when inserted into a computer "

Is TSA going to ban taking CDs and computers on airplanes, instead of profiling?

Just goes to show you, they should stop focusing on objects and start focusing on the terrorists.


3 posted on 12/09/2006 4:36:23 PM PST by FairOpinion
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To: FairOpinion

Windows Vista?


4 posted on 12/09/2006 4:37:35 PM PST by xcamel (Press to Test, Release to Detonate)
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To: FairOpinion

Thank you FairOpinion for the ping:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1747324/posts?page=419#419


5 posted on 12/09/2006 4:40:25 PM PST by Cindy
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To: FairOpinion

Someones life is about to get very..interesting....and not in a pleasant way.
Don't quote me, but I don't believe Tutkish prisons have cable TV.


6 posted on 12/09/2006 4:57:07 PM PST by Valin (History takes time. It is not an instant thing.)
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Don't quote me, but I don't believe Tutkish prisons have cable TV.

And how long until the ACLU sues to convert ours to Satellite TV..

7 posted on 12/09/2006 5:10:27 PM PST by JohnBovenmyer
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To: JohnBovenmyer

Don't give them any idea!


8 posted on 12/09/2006 5:18:13 PM PST by Valin (History takes time. It is not an instant thing.)
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To: FairOpinion

Hopefully they'll waterboard the crap out of him until he fesses up to where Osama is! http://sacredscoop.com


9 posted on 12/09/2006 8:09:51 PM PST by CottShop
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To: FairOpinion
By what method will the Turks skin him alive to extract information?

Paring knife?

Potato peeler?

Cheese grater?

10 posted on 12/09/2006 8:15:10 PM PST by Thumper1960 (Unleash the Dogs of War as a Minority, or perish as a party.)
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