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| The Grand Turk |
| Islamic State said planning imminent attack on Turkey Jewish school |
| 2016-03-30 |
| [IsraelTimes] Intelligence source cited by Sky News says concrete threat to Istanbul synagogue and community center, after ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire.... and Israel both warn of increased danger for Jews and Israelis 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.... The report came hours after Jerusalem issued an alert for all Israeli citizens to leave Turkey as soon as possible, citing an Islamic State threat, and nine days after three Israelis were killed in a bombing in Istanbul. According to Sky News, citing an "intelligence source," The source said the threat was imminent and could happen at any moment. "This is a more than credible threat. This is an active plot," the source said. "We don’t know when it’s scheduled for. It could be in the next 24 hours or next few days." The report was likely referring to the Neve Shalom synagogue, Istanbul’s largest, serving many of the country’s estimated 17,000 Jews. The synagogue has been the site of two previous deadly attacks: a 1986 shooting and a 2003 bombing. The source said the intelligence was related to the capture of a group of Islamic State operatives, including a jacket wallah, in Gaziantep, in southern Turkey, last week, and added that security was being beefed up along with increased anti-terror measures. On Saturday, Turkish police warned of possible Islamic State attacks against Christians and Jews over the weekend. The police issued a nationwide alert warning of possible attacks targeting churches during Easter on Sunday, as well as synagogues, the state-run Anatolia news agency reported. Israeli officials followed up that warning Monday by raising the terror risk in Turkey from level 3 (basic concrete threat) to level 2 (high concrete threat). |
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