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2003-11-19 Europe

Guler Announces Names Of Suicide Bombers

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Posted by Steve 2003-11-19 9:02:21 AM|| || Front Page|| [2 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 More details: The daily newspaper Hurriyet, citing police, said Wednesday that the suspects were members of Beyyiat el-Imam, a little-known group formed in al-Qaida camps in Afghanistan. The group's name means "Allegiance to the Imam" in Arabic. Guler said both suicide bombers were from the southeastern town of Bingol, a hotbed of underground Islamic group of Hezbollah, which is not linked to the Lebanon-based group with the same name. It was not clear if the two attackers have had ties with the group.
Al-Qaida claimed responsibility for the bombings Sunday in messages to two Arabic-language newspapers. It was not possible to authenticate those claims. An outlawed Turkish radical group called the Islamic Great Eastern Raiders' Front, or IBDA-C, also claimed responsibility, but Turkish authorities said the attack was too sophisticated to be carried out by that group.
Turkey has been chasing possible links between local Islamic groups and al-Qaida since a notebook containing instructions in Turkish on how to carry out suicide bombings was found in an al-Qaida camp in Afghanistan in 2001. Newspapers reported that the accomplices of the suicide bombers also were two Turks - 27-year-old Azad Ekinci, a schoolmate of Cabuk, and Feridun Ugurlu. Ekinci and Ugurlu fled to Dubai in the United Arab Emirates on Oct. 28 before the bombings, Hurriyet said. Police did not confirm the reports.

Posted by Steve 2003-11-19 9:46:35 AM|| 2003-11-19 9:46:35 AM|| Front Page Top

#2 Another friggin' group? How do they expect us to keep 'em straight? I would think they'd have run out of names by now.

Posted by Spot 2003-11-19 10:00:00 AM|| 2003-11-19 10:00:00 AM|| Front Page Top

#3 Confusion in this area is not a bug, Spot. It's a design feature...

Posted by Ptah 2003-11-19 10:35:23 AM|| [http://www.crusaderwarcollege.org] 2003-11-19 10:35:23 AM|| Front Page Top

#4 Ptah- Design feature, huh? That must mean Microsoft is behind it all.

Posted by Spot 2003-11-19 10:39:11 AM|| 2003-11-19 10:39:11 AM|| Front Page Top

#5 Update: ``One can't say with 100 percent certainty, but the first investigations indicate that these people have traveled a few times to Afghanistan,'' Foreign Minister Abdullah Gul said at a news conference in Stockholm, Sweden. ``I think that we need some more time to better shed light on this issue.''
Eight people, including relatives of two suspected accomplices who allegedly provided the pickup trucks, were under interrogation, private CNN-Turk television said. Police would not confirm the report

But they did send out for a case of truncheon cleaner and a liter of mustache wax.

Posted by Steve 2003-11-19 4:50:34 PM|| 2003-11-19 4:50:34 PM|| Front Page Top

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