 Istanbul police have taken into custody six men of Chechen origin who were allegedly trying to learn how to make bombs from Islamic extremists. The six were detained in Istanbul Tuesday by police in part of a campaign to combat Islamist militants. According to the Anatolia news agency police also seized several electronic devices as well as diagrams showing how to make a bomb ignition switch. It is also suspected that the group was trying to gather material to be used in the making of bombs. Police sources said that the men were planning to conduct activities in Chechnya against Russian forces there. |