Report: Terrorist Notebook Found "written in Turkish" (Turks trained in al-Qaida camp)

AP via Yahoo! News ^ | Saturday November 17 11:41 AM ET | SELCAN HACAOGLU

[Pericles]

Saturday November 17 11:41 AM ET

Report: Terrorist Notebook Found

By SELCAN HACAOGLU, Associated Press Writer

ANKARA, Turkey (AP) - A notebook written in Turkish and containing instructions on how to carry out various types of terror attacks has been found in a deserted al-Qaida camp in Afghanistan, according to a television report Saturday.

The private Turkish television station, CNN-Turk, said the notebook was found in the Darunta training camp near the eastern Afghan city of Jalalabad, an area until recently under Taliban control.

The notebook was the first indication that Turks may have been trained in Osama bin Laden's terrorist network, CNN-Turk said.

Turkish authorities would not comment on the report.

Like Afghanistan, Turkey is predominantly Muslim but not Arab. Most Turks consider bin Laden a criminal but a few hard-line Muslims support him.

The handwritten notes were apparently taken during a class and include a section on how someone on a motorcycle can assassinate a person riding in a car.

Diagrams show men riding a motorcycle and firing on a car.

The notebook also includes details of how to carry out suicide bombings.

A Turkish intelligence official, speaking on condition of anonymity, said the instructions were highly professional.

CNN-Turk aired footage of the notebook while NTV placed a frozen image of the notes on its Web site.

The notebook, written in fluent Turkish, was discovered by a BBC reporter who visited the camp after it was taken over by anti-Taliban groups this week, private NTV television said.

Meanwhile, two Turks thought to be linked to al-Qaida were captured near the Afghan border by Pakistani border guards, NTV said Saturday.

Muhammed Besir Han Vezir, a Pakistani border security official, said the Turks were captured along with four Albanians and a group of Pakistanis, NTV said.

Last month, 12 Turks were arrested on their way to Afghanistan. Police said the 12 are members of the banned Wahhabi Islamic movement. The movement, which originated in Saudi Arabia, is said to have served as an inspiration for bin Laden, the prime suspect in the Sept. 11 attacks in the United States.

Turkey, NATO's sole Muslim member, supports the U.S.-led military campaign in Afghanistan. It is allowing the United States to use its southern Incirlik air base as a transport hub by cargo planes taking part in the operation in Afghanistan. U.S. jets also use the base for flights to monitor Iraq.

[Pericles]

Many Turks have given Bin Laden a warm welcome in and out of the government: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/fr/561192/posts

In addition 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.

Those terrorists must have gotten a nice tan in Turkish Cyprus.

Nice to see the Albanians represented too.

[Pericles]

Testing "dirty nukes" in Turkish occupied Cyprus under the nose of 30,000 Turkish Troops is worth noting. I think it is not a RADical thing to mention that fact.

[Pericles]

Bin Laden In Turkey Twice

[Arkinsaw]

Nations opposed to Turkey would get a lot more traction here in the US if they were at least 10% as supportive of the US as the Turks have been over the years.

[Pericles]

Recent polls indicate that 80% of Turks oppose our war in Afghanistan. I trust those nations that tell you what they feel to your face much more.

[Pericles]

Post it.

[meridia]

Frankly, I won't be surprised if they eventually learn that some AMERICANS trained in al-Qaeda camps. There were report that young Germans were seen at some of the terrorists' training camps, as well as groups of young men from Scandinavian countries.

Almost sometimes seems as though al-Qaeda was some bizarre modern rendition of the primitive "Coming of Age Ceremony."

[Pericles]

Blondes...like in Bosnian Muslims? The Balkan Branches of the Terror Network "in search of blond Moslems"

FILE--Unidentified Muslims march in Sarajevo in this March 2000 file photo during a protest organized by local Islamic youth organizations to demand the world community put a stop to Russia's offensive in Chechnya. The banner reads "Allah is the only one, and Muhammad is his envoy on earth." As the United States widens its war against Osama bin Laden, signs that a radical fringe is trying to stir up Bosnia, one of the largest Muslim areas in Europe, are being taken seriously. (AP Photo/Hidajet Delic)

They found notes written in Bosnian too OKLAHOMA BOMBING LINKED TO BIN LADEN (Captured Chemical Notes Say in Bosnian ‘Was used in Oklahoma’)

[Pericles]

Read more about it @ BIN LADEN GATE

[Pericles]

I wonder what Rome was to the PLO? Bonn? let us not forget London and Paris!

[Patria One]

Or more about Turkey

http://www.thirdworldtraveler.com/New_World_Order/PowerBloc_TurkeyIsrael.html

[Turk2]

Your source stabs you in the back with thos one. The facts stated are ok but the comments stated display the words of a traitor that does care the least bit about American interests.

It is within Turkish, Israeli and American interest to have a strong cooperative relationship.

How else would Turkey have been able to arrest the terrorist Ocalan? He would still have been living in the villa the Italian government gave him in Rome or in Athens or Moscowb or the Greek Embassy in Nairobi, Kenya where he was given refuge during his attemp at escaping justice. (Notice that all the countries above have very strong domestic communist and anti-American influences)

How else would Israel have been able to gain invalueble flight training and intelligence gathering capabilities without its use of Turkish airspace.

How else would the US have been able to garantee the persistence of the only two democracies in the region?

[Patria One]

My interest is in the facts not the commentary.

[Patria One]

"How else would the US have been able to garantee the persistence of the only two democracies in the region?"

As these democracies impact the Kurds and Palestinians?

[Shermy]

What about British Al-Qaeda? and even some American ones? It's a problem all over.

[Turk2]

The truth about the conflict in Southeastern Anatolia is not what is being portrayed by the European media. The truth is that a marxist terrorist organization has set out to destroy Turkish sovereignty in the region to create a puppet Kurdish state which will give Russia and certain European countries access to Iraqi oil reserves as well as influence in the Middle East and weaken the Turkish state. The group started out as a Soviet backed Marxist terrorist guerilla organization to weaken NATO's southeastern flank. With financial and military support from several European countries such as Greece, Germany, Belgium and Italy as well as Turkey's Middle-eastern neighbors (Syria and Iraq, later Iran) that wanted to gain control over Turkey's water resources, it became a major threat to Turkey, costing the lives of over 30,000 Turkish miltary personnel as well as, civilians, civil servants and school teachers of Kurdish and Turkish ethnic origin. Other sources of finance for their heinous acts include drug-smuggling, money laundering, arms trade and threatening Kurds abroad for donations (which they kill if they do not cooperate).

Their cover of human-rights violations to weaken Turkey's struggle against them - a tactic they were taught by their Armenian brothers-in-arms - has unfortunately proven to be rather effective. They have succeeded in raising the impression that they are freedom fighters. Could you imagine that G.W.Bush would sit down and negotiate with Osama bin Laden? Negotiating with terrorists is the greatest service that can be done for them.

Turkey, Israel and the United States are not ruled by cowards and therefore do not negotiate with terrorists! They deal with them in the only manner that they deserve and can understand: the use of force. You can not allow the impression to be spread that if you kill thousands of people, legitimate democratic states will crumble at your feet and grant your every wish.

[Leonora]

The truth is that a marxist terrorist organization has set out to destroy Turkish sovereignty in the region to create a puppet Kurdish state ..

Really? Isn't that what Albanian KLA wanted to do with Kosovo? I guess someone's terrorists are other people's freedom fighters..

[Turk2]

Terrorists are terrorists. If you define other peoples terrorists as freedom fighters they willl, sooner or later, backfire into your face. The KLA should be irradicated as well as the Serbian paramilitary forces that (as far as aI know) begun the attrocities there. I know that the KLA has hit Serbian civilians and forced them out of their homes too and I do not support such uncivilized acts. Neither does Turkey which has more than enough problems on its hands. Turkey opposed the attrocities of the Serbian militia on the Albanians there as did the rest of the civilized world. It did not support attrocities commited by Albanians and is actively participating in efforts to suppress the terrorist activities of the KLA in FYR Macedonia through military training, supplies and active participation in the NATO forces working to disarm those terrorists.