Thursday, April 14, 2011

Turkish police arrested 52 suspected members of Al Qaeda

A raid in Istanbul has resulted in the arrest of 42 people, allegedly members of the Al Qaeda in Turkey and the Turkish Hizbullah band (not related to the Lebanese movement of the same name). Late on Tuesday, ten others arrested in the Kurdish city of Van in southeastern Turkey, were added to the list.

Official information has allowed only know that among those arrested is Bayancuk Halis, alleged ringleader of the Turkish branch of Al Qaeda, but the Turkish Hizbullah member and son of one of the leaders of this band, Haci Bayancuk responsible for a murder 2001. Halis is 26 and according to Turkish press has been studied in the Egyptian religious university of Al Azhar.

Had been arrested in 2008-the prosecution called more than 15 years in prison, but released in 2009. The police operation and the arrest of Bayancuk seem to show the 'transfer' of Turkish Islamist Hizbullah to Al Qaeda, but now put back to their ties with the structures of the 'Deep State', as is known in Turkey informal network of military intelligence units, illegal counter-terrorism, gangs and extremist organizations.

Today it is satisfied that the Turkish Hizbullah was used during the nineties by the Turkish state, possibly even created, but in any case, trained and financed, to persecute, torture and murder of activists or sympathizers of the PKK, the PKK. One of the commanders of the period, Arif Dogan, now in prison, says even he founded the band as a sort of Turkish GAL.

In 2000, many of its members were arrested, but 18 leaders were released last January without trial. It has not transcended if those arrested are located. The apparent connection between Hizbullah and Al Qaeda also revives suspicions about possible links between certain areas of government and Al Qaeda: since last year, the Office investigates a retired Turkish general for their alleged involvement in the terrorist attacks.

Ensures that the documents were military maps marked in red the two synagogues estambulíes bomb victims of Al Qaeda in 2003.

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