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Turks warned of al-Qaeda glider attack | |
2004-07-03 | |
Turkish authorities received a warning that al-Qaida was planning to use a bomb-laden glider in a suicide attack targeting world leaders at the NATO summit in Istanbul, the city’s police chief was quoted as saying. In an newspaper interview published yesterday, Istanbul police chief Celalettin Cerrah said the intelligence came from foreign sources and described such a plot as farfetched. "To tell you the truth, we did not find it very realistic," Cerrah told the daily newspaper Hurriyet.
Bush, British Prime Minister Tony Blair, French President Jacques Chirac, and German Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder were among the world leaders who attended the summit, which took place amid extremely tight security. More than 23,000 police were mobilised, F-16 warplanes patrolled the skies and AWACS early-warning planes dispatched by NATO helped monitor a no-fly zone over Istanbul. Police spokesman Ramazan Er revealed on Friday that authorities found and defused explosives in a garage at Istanbul’s airport only hours before the arrival of Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan last week. Another police official said a small Marxist group was believed to have been involved. The group, MLKP-FESK, claimed responsibility for a small blast last week in Ankara outside the hotel where Bush had been scheduled to stay. | |
Posted by:Dan Darling |
#6 Glide for Effect! Quick!!! Cue up Flight of the Valkyries!! |
Posted by: Alaska Paul 2004-07-03 7:54:33 PM |
#5 LOL MarkO 2+ is a barrage! |
Posted by: Shipman 2004-07-03 6:23:06 PM |
#4 Gliders of Doom™? |
Posted by: beer_me 2004-07-03 5:14:29 PM |
#3 Okay, so now we have two definitions to work with (along with an observation from a while back): Terrorist Guided Missile: Bomb laden splodey-dope on a glider Terrorist Artillery: 2+ splodey-dopes and a trampoline Mark |
Posted by: MarkO 2004-07-03 4:13:15 PM |
#2 Deadly AQ glider infantry... Seriously, since Eben Emanuel or whatever it was has there ever been a successful glider attack? |
Posted by: Shipman 2004-07-03 3:55:09 PM |
#1 With all that coastline, Ol' Erdogan should be worrying about those amphibians... |
Posted by: .com 2004-07-03 3:50:32 PM |