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| Turkey to issue arrest warrant for Shaboob leaders | |
| 2014-06-03 | |
| Turkey will apply to INTERPOL following a court in Ankara’s ruling to issue an arrest warrant for five al-Shabab leaders in relation to a suicide attack in Somalia. Ankara’s 6th Penal Court has ruled to issue an arrest warrant on five Ethiopian al-Shabaab leaders as part of a probe into a suicide attack on the Turkish Embassy, which killed an embassy personnel in Mogadishu in July last year. Ankara’s public prosecutor will also apply to INTERPOL to issue a red alert on the suspects after determining that the attack was held upon their leaders’ instructions. On July 28, al Qaeda-linked al-Shabaab militants staged a suicide attack on a Turkish Embassy annex, killing one Turkish guard and wounding three others. The court ordered the arrest in absentia of Ahmed Abdi aw-Mohamed, the leader of the terrorist organization, Sheikh Mukhtar Robow, the deputy leader, a senior commander Fuad Mohamed Khalaf, the spiritual leader Hassan Dahir Aweys and Hassan Abdullah Hersi al-Turki, another senior leader. During the attack police officers who guarded the Turkish Embassy annex, housing Turkish diplomatic staff, managed to kill two assailants but a third attacker detonated a vehicle laden with explosives.
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| Posted by:Steve White |