Posted on 10/15/2021 1:11:30 PM PDT by Conservat1
ANKARA, Turkey (AP) — Turkish authorities have detained eight people, including two alleged Iranian agents, who attempted to abduct a former Iranian soldier back to Iran, Turkey’s state-run agency reported Wednesday.
The Anadolu Agency said the eight were caught in the eastern province of Van, which borders Iran, in a joint operation by Turkey’s police and intelligence agency on Sept. 24. A Turkish government official confirmed the arrests on Wednesday but did not elaborate.
Anadolu said the Iranian agents were sent to Turkey with the purpose of creating a “network” that would kidnap and smuggle the soldier back to Iran. The group reportedly offered money to the soldier's wife to help them kidnap him and threatened to harm family members in Iran if she refused.
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Let’s see. Iran is friends with Syria. Is Syria the enemy of Turkey? Something tells me we should be arming all sides. Just give them the captured AK-47’s we’ve picked up over time.
As in the 1980s Iran-Iraq war?
Rough future for that guy. He needs some ersatz witness protection. A name change, and a move, then another name change and move so the people who helped him in the first name change don’t give him up for some Iranian oil cash. (or these days, for some Iranian Democrat party cash)
Poor turkey. Hopefully that earns him clemency for the upcoming Thanksgiving dinner.
That turkey...
incidentally Butterball recalled...https://www.masslive.com/news/2021/10/recall-alert-butterball-recalling-more-than-14100-pounds-of-ground-turkey-after-customers-find-blue-plastic-in-meat.html
I always find the blue plastic lends a certain crunch to the meal, though.
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