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...twin bombings took the lives of at least 32 people, almost all Turkish citizens, and wounded more than 450. That was shock enough for the country, but the attacks came on the heels of similarly synchronized blasts just five days earlier at Istanbul's two main synagogues, assaults that had killed 25 and injured more than 300, also mostly Turks. Said Semih Idiz, a veteran columnist for the Aksam newspaper: "It's our 9/11...
...over, London and Washington issued broad warnings of possible imminent attacks against British and American interests abroad. In Muslim countries, the chosen targets have symbolized mainly Western and Jewish interests--Jakarta's J.W. Marriott Hotel, Casablanca's tourist sites and Jewish centers, residential compounds for foreign workers in Riyadh, Istanbul's synagogues and British offices. But a second assault in Riyadh Nov. 8 was on a compound housing mainly Muslims and Arabs. And the locale of all these strikes may contain a grim message for Muslims: Beware, anyone who cooperates with the West--the danger extends...
From Washington to London to Istanbul, politicians and experts were quick to lay the blame on bin Laden's al-Qaeda. Officials noted that last week's bombing spree bore all the hallmarks of the group's operational style: using suicide bombers to launch multiple attacks almost simultaneously at soft targets. An obscure militant group even invoked bin Laden's name in claiming responsibility...
What happened in Istanbul seems to reflect this new face of terrorism. Turkish officials think the double car bombings were the work of homegrown extremists, perhaps inspired and possibly trained by al-Qaeda experts. The Turkish group that first claimed responsibility for both sets of attacks, the Islamic Great Eastern Raiders Front (IBDA-C), is widely believed to be incapable of mounting such a complicated operation entirely on its own. But it seems to have provided the willing bodies--and the cars. The vehicles used in the Saturday and Thursday bombings were apparently bought by the same men. Together with...
...righteous jihad." Jacquard says Saudi intelligence officials told him the Riyadh bombers who struck on Nov. 8 picked their target, knowing the apartment complex housed many Arabs, to send the message that all who resist jihad are fair game. To kill fellow Muslims during Ramadan, as terrorists did in Istanbul and Riyadh, "is an act of unspeakable extremism, and that's how it's supposed to be viewed," Jacquard says. "That's the point...