Free Republic

ANKARA, Turkey, Nov. 29 — Police arrested a man suspected of ordering one of four deadly suicide bombings earlier this month, officials said Saturday. THE MAN was brought to the wrecked Beth Israel synagogue early Saturday, police spokesman Halil Yilmaz said. He said the man, whose identity was not released, made plans for the attack and ordered it. The suicide truck bombings on the Beth Israel synagogue and another synagogue on Nov. 15, along with the Nov. 20 bombing of the British Consulate and a British bank, killed 61 people and injured 712. The four bombers were among the dead....

This Shabbat, there were no prayers uttered at the Beth Israel Synagogue. Instead, workers bricked up the front of the gutted house of worship, one of two struck by truck bombs in Istanbul last Saturday. In the Beyalu neighborhood on Shabbat, the bombed-out Neveh Shalom Synagogue was also bereft of worshipers. Twenty-three were killed in the dual terrorist attack attributed to the Great Eastern Islamic Raiders' Front, a local Islamist group affiliated with al-Qaida. Taking extra security precautions, the Istanbul Jewish community kept secret the location of alternative sites for weekend services. At Beth Israel, what furniture that could be...