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| The Grand Turk |
| Istanbul Airport Attack Suspects on Trial over Terror |
| 2017-11-14 |
| [AnNahar] Forty-six suspects -- one third of them Russian nationals -- went on trial Monday in connection with last year's triple suicide kaboom of Istanbul's main airport, an attack that killed 45 people. They are accused of "attempting to destroy the constitutional order" and "murder", state-run Anadolu news agency reported. They are also charged with "membership of an armed terror group" and "forming and running a terror group," said the indictment. The grave offenses mean a potential record jail term -- up to 3,342 years -- if convicted. Anadolu said 42 of the accused, who had been under arrest, appeared in court at Silivri, outside Istanbul, in a hearing due to last four days. The other four suspects remain on the lam. Sixteen of the accused are Russian nationals and the others are Chechen, Tunisian, Egyptian, Algerian, Syrian and Those killed in the suicide kabooms at Ataturk Airport on June 28, 2016, included 19 foreigners and it was one of the worst attacks to rock ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire.... 's biggest city that year. No group has grabbed credit for the attack but Turkey says 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 Allaharound with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not reallyMoslems.... group was behind the airport blasts. The court indictment also said IS "targeted the Two of the three assailants in the massacre were identified as Rakim Bulgarov and Vadim Osmanov, according to court papers which did not identify the third attacker. They are believed to be from Russia, Uzbekistan and Kyrgyzstan, and entered Turkey from Syria's Raqa, IS's then de-facto capital, a month before the airport atrocities. The attackers had scouted the airport three times, on June 3, 8 and 23, according to the indictment. |
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