There is not doubt that the two attacks that targeted the two Jewish synagogues in Istanbul unsettled the Turkish government and brought fear and surprise upon the Turkish people. But what is more striking is the fact that the Turkish security forces reached a speedy solution to identify the parties responsible for the two attacks in less than 30 hours, especially following the statements voiced by officials as far as the presence of a professional international organization behind the two attacks.
| Qaeda 'fessing up did help a bit. So'd the credit claim by the Great Eastern Raiders... |
The amount of data, which was suddenly discovered, contributed to this, question marks have come up. The perpetrators did what they could to have their identities discovered after their suicide. They even used their parents' cars in the bombing operations without changing their plates, and made sure to have their passports on them, so they would be found among the remains.
| That was bright of them. But it's happened before... |
The two attacks, which come at a time when relations between Turkey and Israel are cold, and when those between Ankara and Washington are worse than ever, raise questions as far as the timing of the attacks. It turns to be impossible when we remember that the Turkish Justice and Development Party, which is receiving these strikes, is linked to the Islamic front, even if refused to admit it. Among its executives and leaders, there are some persons who were in the past related to the radicals, or at least supported Jihad's policy in Afghanistan and in Chechnya against the Soviet Union for the past two decades, when the U.S. used to recognize the form of the Jihad. Some were on contact with parties and religious groups and Jihad movements all over the world, why then do 'new strugglers' target 'old strugglers?'.
| Sounds like some sort of Deep Laid Plot™, maybe even a Dire Conspiracy™. What do you think? |
A large part of the Turkish people is still insisting on searching among the remnants of the two Jewish synagogues and the British Council about another secret factor, other than Al Qaeda, which has an interest in influencing the foreign Turkish policy and turning the justice and development government away from its strategy, especially that terrorism is not strange to Turkey, which established the Kurdish Hezbollah and used it against the Kurdistan Labor Communist party in the eighties, before Hezbollah went out of control and started to collaborate with foreign organizations, obliging the Turkish government to eliminate it after detaining Abdullah Ocalan in 1999. Through this experience, Turkish security forces are aware of the possibility that some international intelligence institutions use some terrorist cells without these cells realizing who is really behind them.
| Ahah! Unwitting tools in the hands of... ummm... us? The CIA? The Mossad? That'd be it. |
These scenarios might be exaggerated but this is the general environment in Turkey, which realizes that Israel and U.S. cooperation with it in 1999 to arrest Ocalan was accompanied by a sudden interest in Ankara, expressed by the administration of President Bill Clinton. U.S. President himself interfered with the European Union to accept Turkey as a candidate for membership in December 2000, and held a speech in the Turkish parliament confirming that Turkey is a strategic ally for the U.S. Thus, some persons in Turkey believe that a slap must be addressed to Turkey so that it realizes that it should change its policy and that the idea of regional cooperation is useless as long as its neighbors are organizing terrorist attacks against it.
| Ahah. So that's why we dunnit, using our unwitting tools to... ummm... kill some Jews and a bunch of Muslim passers-by, and bump off the British consul and... ummm... Sorry. It doesn't make any sense. I think it was Qaeda. You and Murat can think what you want. |
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