Baki Yigit, one of the accused in Al Quaeda case, told the court on Monday that he met Osama bin Laden and Abu Hafs al-Masri, but denied any involvement in last year's bomb attacks.
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72 virgins suspects, who were alleged to be involved in bomb attacks between November 15th and 20th, last year in Istanbul, were under trial today. Yigit told the court that he and Habib Aktas met Abu Hafs al-Masri and Osama bin Laden in Kandahar, Afghanistan. ''We told him that we will not do homage to Al-Quaeda, but we wanted them to help our friends who have gone to Chechnya. They said they thought of an action in Turkey, but we said we opposed to the action and turned down the offer.'' Yigit said, ''I am supporting jihad in Bosnia, Chechnya and Falluja, but no decision for an attack was taken as a result of this meeting.''
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''We just talked... We didn't form any organization since we're Muslims and can't agree on anything,'' he said, adding that he and Aktas later had a disagreement and he returned to Turkey. Yigit insisted he had nothing to do with the November 2003 attacks targeting two synagogues, the British Consulate and a London-based bank. |