http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2007/01/29/europe/EU-GEN-Turkey-Militants-Arrested.php
46 suspected Islamic militants arrested in Turkey ISTANBUL, Turkey: Turkish police arrested 46 suspected Islamic militants in operations in five provinces across the country, authorities said Monday. The state-owned Anatolia news agency reported that the suspects had ties to al-Qaida, but police in Istanbul would not confirm that information, saying only that 46 militants were arrested in coordinated operations in the cities of Istanbul, Konya, Izmir, Kocaeli and Mardin. In 2003, homegrown Islamic militants with alleged ties to al-Qaida bombed two synagogues, a British bank and the British consulate in Istanbul, killing 58 people. More than 70 Turks are on trial for their alleged roles in those attacks, though police say some suspected ringleaders fled the country and others died fighting U.S. forces in Iraq. Many of those arrested in connection with the 2003 attacks acknowledge attending militant Islamist training camps in Chechnya and Afghanistan, but deny direct ties to the al-Qaida network. The last major publicized crackdown on Islamic militants in Turkey, a 99 percent Muslim country, was in November, when police said they detained 10 militants with bomb-making materials during the visit of Pope Benedict XVI. +++ -------------------------- Want to discuss this topic? Head on over to our discussion list, [EMAIL PROTECTED] -------------------------- Brooks Isoldi, editor [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.intellnet.org Post message: [email protected] Subscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] *** FAIR USE NOTICE. This message contains copyrighted material whose use has not been specifically authorized by the copyright owner. OSINT, as a part of The Intelligence Network, is making it available without profit to OSINT YahooGroups members who have expressed a prior interest in receiving the included information in their efforts to advance the understanding of intelligence and law enforcement organizations, their activities, methods, techniques, human rights, civil liberties, social justice and other intelligence related issues, for non-profit research and educational purposes only. We believe that this constitutes a 'fair use' of the copyrighted material as provided for in section 107 of the U.S. Copyright Law. If you wish to use this copyrighted material for purposes of your own that go beyond 'fair use,' you must obtain permission from the copyright owner. For more information go to: http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/107.shtml Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/osint/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/osint/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
