 Istanbul, 10 May (AKI) - A suspected al-Qaeda cell has been broken up and its members arrested in Turkey. Among those detained was Abdolhalim Sad, an Iranian, who the Turkish authorities believe is the new leader of the global terror network in Turkey. The cell was dismantled by the Turkish security forces who had been put on the trail by the American secret service, the CIA. The operation dates to two weeks ago but the news of the arrrest of Abdolhalim Sad and other members emerged only on Tuesday. | Turkish Truncheon Team has been working on him for two weeks, sounds...painful |
Turkish intelligence services say that the militants were preparing an attack against the military base at Incirlik which is home to divisions of the US airforce. | That's the target the last group was supposed to hit. They decided it was too hard and killed a bunch of civilians instead. |
The other three arrested were Turkish citizens; Mehmet Yilmaz, Mehmet Belut and Murat Estenleg, who according to Turkish media reports had attended a military camp run by al-Qaeda in Iran, near the border with Iraqi Kurdistan. |