Saturday, January 01, 2011

Turkey - 10 Suspects Held in Attack Plot - NYTimes.com

"Turkey: 10 Suspects Held in Attack Plot
By SEBNEM ARSU
Published: December 31, 2010

Turkish police officers detained 10 people with suspected links to Al Qaeda in operations conducted in Bursa and Istanbul, following tips that the group was plotting attacks ahead of New Year’s Eve, the semiofficial Anatolian Agency reported. During security operations on Wednesday, the antiterror units in Bursa, a town in the northwest, rounded up eight people, one of whom was the suspected leader of a local Qaeda cell, the report said. "

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