Turkey warned of Al-Qaeda airplane attacks - report

Posted by Robert on July 27, 2004 6:56 AM

More rage and threats at Turkey, despised by the radical Muslims for its secularism. From [1] AFX, with thanks to Jeffrey Imm:

ANKARA (AFX) - Turkey has received intelligence that the al-Qaeda network may try to carry out attacks in the country similar to the Sept 11, 2001 attacks in the US, the Milliyet newspaper reported.

Citing "an important source" the newspaper said Turkey received information on July 16 that Al-Qaeda may be planning to either hijack a plane and crash it into a target on the ground, or blow up a plane in the air using homemade explosives.

Milliyet said the interior ministry convened an urgent meeting of security and air authorities last week and ordered security measures at airports be raised to "level yellow", the highest state of alarm after the top "level red".


Article printed from Jihad Watch: http://www.jihadwatch.org/2004/07/turkey-warned-of-al-qaeda-airplane-attacks---report.html

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