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The Grand Turk
PM: ISIS prime suspect in Ankara bombing
2015-10-13
[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu on Monday said The Sick Man of Europe Turkey
...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire....
was investigating the Islamic State
...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems....
of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) group as the prime suspect in the bombings on a weekend peace rally in Ankara that killed 97 people.

"Looking at how the incident took place, we are probing Daesh [Islamic State] as our first priority," Davutoglu said, using an alternative Arabic acronym for ISIS.

He said that the attacks were definitely carried out by two jacket wallahs.

"We are close to identifying one of the bombers," he told NTV television, adding that this would help name the organization behind the attacks.

Davutoglu however remained cautious, saying that authorities were investigating three groups including Islamic State but also the outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) and the far-left Revolutionary People's Liberation Party-Front (DHKP-C) as "potential suspects."

"It would not be accurate to give an indication right now," he said.
Posted by:Fred

#1  I wonder whether the state use jihadis much in he same way Pakistan does?
Posted by: paul   2015-10-13 15:47  

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