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...suspected of having dispatched a dozen locally recruited radicals from Germany to Iraq to carry out suicide attacks against U.S. troops; four men were arrested on similar charges in Italy and Germany the week before. Syria handed over 22 suspects sought by Turkey in connection with the November Istanbul terror blasts. French police rounded up four people accused of assisting an al-Qaeda operative last year as he passed through France on his way to London. And British police have detained 21 people (some of whom have since been released) under British antiterrorism laws in the past two weeks...
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...
...Those who bloodied this holy day and massacred innocent people will account for it in both worlds. They will be damned until eternity." RECEP TAYYIP ERDOGAN, Prime Minister of Turkey, condemning the bombings of the British consulate and a British bank in Istanbul that killed 29 people...