Turkey detains 8 Europe-bound ISIS suspects 'posing as refugees'.....

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    So Turkey is beefing up its security, huh? About time, and do you think they know the spotlight is on them even moreso now?



    Turkish police detained eight suspected members of the ISIS extrtemist group, state media said Wednesday, adding they were planning to sneak into Europe posing as refugees. Counter-terror police detained the suspects in Istanbul's Ataturk Airport after they flew in from the Moroccan city of Casablanca Tuesday, the official Anatolia news agency reported.

    The police found a hand-written note on one of the suspects detailing a migration route from Istanbul to Germany via Greece, Serbia and Hungary, including smuggler boats across the Mediterranean Sea, as well as several train and bus journeys.The eight men told police that they were just tourists who had been planning to spend a few days in Istanbul and had booked rooms at a hotel, but no reservations were found under their names.

    Turkey was long criticized by its Western allies for failure to take robust action to stem the flow of ISIS militants across its porous border. But Ankara has stepped security measures in recent months after a series of deadly attacks blamed on the extremists, including a twin suicide bombing in Ankara that killed 102 people last month.

    According to official data released to AFP last week, in the first half of 2015 over 700 foreign suspected extremists were detained and deported from Turkey whereas for all of 2014 the figure was 520.....snip~

    http://www.dailystar.com.lb/News/Mi...e-bound-isis-suspects-posing-as-refugees.ashx
     
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    Well the Turks know that Daesh are using the refugees as a cover. Why can't BO and Team Democrat figure that out.
     
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    So what do you think, did Turkey catch 700 suspected foreign extremists?
     

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