 Turkish police have detained six suspected Al Qaeda militants they say were planning an armed attack in Turkey, the Anatolia news agency reported on Sunday. The six - five Turks and a foreign national - were detained in the southeastern city of Gaziantep in a police raid on a house, the agency said. It did not say when the raid took place, but said police had been watching the group for some time. One of the suspected militants, whom Anatolia identified as Fahad Abdurrahman El Cakmak, had travelled to Pakistan and Afghanistan, the report said.
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Police seized several passports and identification cards and were inspecting a computer used by the militant group. Police in Gaziantep.
More than 70 suspected Al Qaeda militants including a Syrian national are on trial in Istanbul for alleged involvement in a series of suicide bombings that killed 58 people in the city in 2003. The Syrian, Loai Mohammad Haj Bakr al-Saqa, was allegedly the president of an informal court that sentenced British engineer Kenneth Bigley to death in Iraq in 2004. Al-SaqaÂ’s lawyer told reporters on Saturday BigleyÂ’s body was buried in a ditch at an entrance to the city of Fallujah in Iraq. The British Foreign Office said it was investigating the claim. |