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The Grand Turk
Istanbul Reina attacker ‘switched target’ after Raqqa order
2017-01-19
[Hurriyet Daily News] An 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 the Levant (ISIS) Death Eater who killed 39 people while wounding 65 others in a nightclub in Istanbul’s Ortaköy district on Jan. 1 took the orders to stage the attack from an ISIS emir in Syria’s Raqqa, according to Turkish authorities.

Abdulkadir Masharipov, the 34-year-old ISIS Death Eater who was apprehended by Turkish police late on Jan. 16 after two weeks on the run, said he initially went to Istanbul’s Taksim Square to stage an attack, but "there were too many precautions," so he chose the Reina nightclub to attack.
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