Posted on 11/02/2001 7:53:08 AM PST by Pericles
Friday November 2 11:19 AM ET
Turkey Police Arrest Five on Al Qaeda Link
ANKARA (Reuters) - Turkish police have detained five suspected Islamic militants attempting to travel to Afghanistan to join the Islamic al Qaeda network, a police spokesman said on Friday.
Saudi-born dissident Osama bin Laden heads al Qaeda and Washington holds both responsible for the September 11 attacks on U.S. landmarks that killed at least 4,800 people.
``The five were arrested last week. They confessed they had attempted to go to Afghanistan obeying al Qaeda's call for Jihad (holy war) against the United States,'' a police spokesman told Reuters.
Turkey, NATO's only mainly Muslim member, said on Thursday it would send a special 90-man military unit to Afghanistan to train anti-Taliban opposition forces. It has allowed the United States to use its air bases and air space since October 7.
The five Turkish citizens were captured in the southeastern city of Gaziantep, where they had returned after failing to cross into Afghanistan through neighboring Iran, he said.
A police statement said the suspects, along with eight others, were under investigation for forming an Islamic militant group called Selefiler (Predecessors) in Gaziantep. Neither the statement nor the spokesman elaborated further.
Overwhelmingly Muslim but officially secular Turkey maintains a crackdown on all types of Islamic movements. The country's most powerful armed Islamic group is Hizbullah, which the authorities hold responsible for killing at least 150 people.
Turkey's Hizbullah is not thought to have links with a Lebanese group with the same name.
Turkey's Islamist press fumes at US for 'crusade' against Islam
Q: Who's side are they on ?
A: USA
We are holding and protecting the civil rights of how many of these guys refusing to talk? Maybe we should bring in some Turkish or Israeli interrogators as "visiting lecturers."
Furthermore, as revealed in the February 2001 East Africa bombing trial testimony of Jamal al Fadl -- an al Qaeda operative in charge of weapons development in Sudan -- uranium used in "dirty bombs" that release lethal radioactive material, had been tested in 1994 by members of the Sudan-based Islamic National Front in the town of Hilat Koko, in Turkish-held northern Cyprus.
ChadGore (great name bytheway) all I said was "It's about time. Turkey has been a major transportation hub for Al Qaeda and other Jihadists for a while now" as my links show.
What we should do with all of the goat humpers arrested here and staying silent is a simple thing!
Tell them that they have one hour to start singing or we will send them on C5A's over to Turkey for questioning, trial and imprisonment and the Midnight Express fun will begin for these goat humpers!
They would start singing in about 60 seconds if a Turk was standing there when they are told what their options are!
When these "suspects" have reached their destination in with the Taliban troops send them a gift wrapped smart bomb for the whole group.
Yeah, yeah, i know...been watching too many spy movies.
Turkish police have detained five suspected Islamic militants attempting to travel to Afghanistan to join the Islamic al Qaeda network, a police spokesman said on Friday.
``The five were arrested last week. They confessed they had attempted to go to Afghanistan obeying al Qaeda's call for Jihad (holy war) against the United States,'' a police spokesman told Reuters.
We need to send all of the al Qaeda suspects here to Turkey for forceful debriefing.
I just can't get past this description. Reuters is despicable.
One modification: don't turn them loose, let them "escape." You know, handcuffs not on quite tight enough, a midnight transfer to a different prison, a van door not shut all the way, guards apparently drunk... I think a prisoner who thinks he has escaped will head for the area he thinks is safest... and likely, where he feels safe is somewhere we want to know about. See, I watch spy movies too!
Nah...I only say that on Thanksgiving. : )
And by the way, I did chuckle at "Turkey Police" instead of "Turkish. "
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