Thursday, January 06, 2005

Middle East Newsline -TURKEY SITS ON 'ISLAMIC TIMEBOMB'

"TURKEY SITS ON 'ISLAMIC TIMEBOMB'

WASHINGTON [MENL] -- Turkey, said to have enabled at least 1,000 of its nationals to fight Russian troops in Chechnya, might be the target of an Islamic blowback.
A report by the Washington-based Jamestown Foundation said many of the Turkish fighters who fought in Bosnia and Chechnya could return to Turkey where they were expected to organize sleeper cells. These cells could combine Al Qaida-inspired doctrine with the military capabilities of the Turkish combat veterans."

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