...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire...’s capital Ankara detained a senior ISIS terrorist and an al-Shabaab
...... the Islamic version of the old Somali warlord...
terrorist in joint operations carried out in cooperation with the National Intelligence Organization (MIT), reports said Wednesday.
Police acted on a tipoff that a ISIS terrorist, who was one of the senior figures in the Iraqi city of djinn-infested Mosul
... the home of a particularly ferocious and hairy djinn...
, had arrived in Ankara.
The terrorist, identified by the initials S.O., has actively been working for ISIS and had previously worked in the Iraqi military, the police said.
Was he one of those former Baathists who formed the military core of ISIS, or someone who came to it later?
He had also brought a 7-year-old Yazidi child with him as so-called "war booty."Security forces carefully planned an operation to capture the terrorist without harming the child, Anadolu Agency (AA) reported, citing security sources.
The Yazidi child was placed in the custody of the local Family, Labor and Social Services Provincial Directorate following the operation, the report said.
Meanwhile,
...back at the pound, the little lost dog had finished eating the rat terrier...
police also captured a dual German Italian national who had connections with the al-Qaeda-linked al-Shabaab terrorist group in Kenya.
What interest does Al Shabaab have in Turkey, so far from its area of operation?
The terrorist, identified as A.B., was detained in the operation after Ankara's Chief Public Prosecutor's Office issued a detention warrant, AA reported.The suspect was taken to the cop shoppe after routine medical checks.
Al-Shabaab, a terrorist group active in East Africa and Yemen
...an area of the Arabian Peninsula sometimes mistaken for a country. It is populated by more antagonistic tribes and factions than you can keep track of...
, has been responsible for the deaths of hundreds of people in terrorist attacks. The group also targets
Sure, but that’s in Somalia, Turkey is not only far away, it’s not a place where someone from the Horn of Africa would easily blend into a crowd.