Turkey Bombers May Have Afghan Ties

[Socialist Christian]

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=535&ncid=535&e=10&u=/ap/20031119/ap_on_re_mi_ea/turkey_synagogue_bombings


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ISTANBUL, Turkey - Two Turks identified by DNA tests as the suicide bombers in last weekend's deadly synagogue attacks previously traveled to Afghanistan (news - web sites), the foreign minister said Wednesday, as police pursued the bombers' suspected Turkish accomplices


Istanbul's governor said DNA tests identified the bombers as Mesut Cabuk, 29, and Gokhan Elaltuntas, 22, both Turks, and said the attacks against the two synagogues, which killed 23 people and wounded 300 others, resembled al-Qaida operations.


"One can't say with 100 percent certainty, but the first investigations indicate that these people have traveled a few times to Afghanistan," Foreign Minister Abdullah Gul said at a news conference in Stockholm, Sweden. "I think that we need some more time to better shed light on this issue."


The daily newspaper Hurriyet, citing police, said Wednesday that the two bombers and two Turks suspected of being their accomplices were members of Beyyiat el-Imam, a little-known group formed in al-Qaida camps in Afghanistan. The group's name means "Allegiance to the Imam" in Arabic.

[hippiechick]

1. I'm sorry ... but the title of this thread is hilarious !

I think I'm on holiday overload already ... :silly:


:hippie:

[proud patriot]

2. I sorry but the first this I thought of when reading your subjuct line

was the WKRP thanksgiving episode where they
dropped turkeys out of an airplane . :crazy:

[ignatius]

3. I'm sorry also, but I was wondering what an Afghan tie looks like.