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Al-Qaeda chief Ayman al-Zawahiri The Coordinator 2015 Part 17-57-The Deep Battle against the West

Now that Islamism and its extreme form, terrorism, have become familiar to the world, one must anticipate what’s coming next. This is especially true for the West, home to many easily radicalized expat Muslims.

Oct 14, The Islamic State (IS) militant group on Tuesday called for a jihad against Russia and the US for there "crusader's war" in the Middle East. In an audio message, the group's spokesman Abu Muhammad al-Adnani said, "Oh Muslim youth everywhere come on for jihad against the Russians and Americans, because it's a crusader war against the Muslims; the war of the atheists and idolaters against the believers," Xinhua reported. The message came just a day after the Al Qaeda-affiliated Nusra Front called for attacks against Russia. Leader of Nusra Front Abu Muhammad al-Jolani urged the extremists in the Caucasus to "kill the Russians" in retaliation to the Russian airstrikes in Syria. Al-Jolani urged all of the jihadi factions on ground to stop their infighting and "postpone the differences until the break of the crusader Western and Russian war on the Levant land (Syria)". In the statement, over 41 rebel groups, including the powerful Ahrar al-Sham Movement, deemed the Russian military intervention in Syria as an "occupation", and urged regional countries to form a coalition in order to face the Russian-led group which also includes Iran, Iraq and Syria.

The Ankara bombing was a bad ending of one part of the Turkish Islamists' willing dance with the devil. The dance is not over yet.

Two weeks after 102 people were killed at an Ankara rally and as snap elections near, the government is feeling the heat

Amid the confusion, President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Thursday pinned responsibility for the Ankara bombing on a “terror collective” comprising not only IS, but also Turkish and Syrian Kurds and the Syrian intelligence service.

Oct 24, The government said Kurdish rebels or Islamic State militants were likely responsible, while mourners accused President Recep Tayyip Erdogan of fomenting violence to gain votes for the ruling party ahead of the November 1 elections. The Turkish prime minister said that Kurdish militants and ISIS were possible suspects. Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu on Monday said Turkey was investigating the Islamic State (ISIS) group as the prime suspect in the bombings on a weekend peace rally in Ankara that killed 97 people.

"We're close to a name, which points to one group".

The pro-government Takvim daily has claimed that the deadly Ankara bombing which claimed 102 lives on Oct.10 was planned during a meeting attended by German spies in Berlin in late September.October 22, 2015, Thursday/ 12:56:02/ TODAYSZAMAN.COM / ISTANBULIn his column titled “Secret meeting in Estrel Hotel” on Thursday, Takvim Editor-in-chief Ergün Diler said the bombing that hit a peace rally of pro-Kurdish and leftist activists outside Ankara's main train station and killed 102 people and wounded more than 500, was planned to "keep the pro-Kurdish People's Democratic Party (HDP) strong" in the upcoming Nov.1 elections and to ensure Turkey is governed by a coalition government.Diler, who is known for conspiracy theories in his columns, said he contacted an American friend to find out “who was laughing while the Turkish people were hurt,” and the American friend -- whose name was not disclosed in the column -- prepared a file for Diler after interviewing "influential figures" in the Pentagon and CIA.

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According to the script shared by the Takvim editor-in chief, which supposedly came from his American friend in a question-and-answer format, individuals hold meetings and carry out plans to keep the HDP strong and to form a coalition government as a result of the upcoming Nov. 1 election which is to be held after coalition efforts failed when the ruling Justice and Development Party (AK Party) failed to secure enough seats to rule alone.Diler said in an attempt to support the HDP, a special meeting was held in Germany on Sept. 25 and a special guest that came from Turkey was hosted in a special room in the Estrel Hotel. The guest was transported to the hotel by a specially made vehicle owned by Germany's Federal Intelligence Service (BND) and entered the hotel from a special entrance. Two agents assigned by Federal Minister of Special Affairs Minister Peter Altmaier, who is responsible for the BND, were also allegedly at the meeting at the hotel, a location which Diler quoted his American friend as saying is "the center of the BND.”During the two-hour meeting, every detail of the attack was reportedly discussed, as, the American friend alleges, happened in the case of the Suruç bombing that killed 34 pro-Kurdish activists in the southeastern province of Şanlıurfa on July 20.Diler reported that bombing a Kurdish association in Turkey and Germany was also planned in the alleged meeting, but the Germans may either have waited to carry it out or canceled the attack. Citing his anonymous American friend, Diler stated that the main aim of the “circles” involved is to have Turkey be governed by a coalition government for at least a term, and the main target behind these plans is President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, who has been seeking to have 400 deputies favorable to him placed in Parliament to change the Constitution and switch Turkey to a presidential system in which he would enjoy more executive powers.According to the column, Diler's American source also warned him not to think that only Germany is responsible for taking down Erdoğan, as “310 First Street NE 20003 -- most probably referring to Republican National Committee -- the United Kingdom, Israel and Iran,”also started to take respnsibility in the plan targeting Erdoğan.Diler's column came in the same week in which three suspects, including former aide to President Erdoğan Muhammed Taha Gergerlioğlu, are standing trial on charges of espionage. Gergerlioğlu, Ahmet Duran Y. and German national Göksel G. were arrested in December 2014 on charges of espionage. In May, the German federal attorney-general filed charges against the trio for spying for Turkey's National Intelligence Organization (MİT). The Turkish spies are said to have been ordered to spy on President Erdoğan's opponents in Germany, including members of the Kurdish minority, the faith-based Gülen movement and other Turkish nationals in the country who are critical of the Turkish president.

GROUND ZERO FOR JIHAD OCT 21 2015 BY KHALED AHMED A. Majeed—AFP JASON BURKE’S NEW BOOK IS ESSENTIAL READING FOR PAKISTAN.Now that Islamism and its extreme form, terrorism, have become familiar to the world, one must anticipate what’s coming next. This is especially true for the West, home to many easily radicalized expat Muslims. Jason Burke’s thought-provoking latest book, The New Threat from Islamic Militancy, lays out the scenario while analyzing the recent experience of Europe. Unfortunately, most cases link up with Pakistan as the training ground or inspiration for acts of terrorism in Britain and France.Burke explores many reasons for Islamic expat militancy: the rise of Islamic revolutionary Iran challenging the ‘crusading’ West and ‘Jew-loving,’ hegemonic America; the emergence of Afghanistan as a set-piece battle between Islam and the West; the expat Muslim facing identity crisis in the West and reaching out to his or her “home” country





undergoing radical Islamic revival; the availability of information technology in a globalized world encouraging introversion in socially isolated Muslim youths in the West; and the outreach of the radical cleric into multicultural Western societies.Alas, Pakistan becomes ground zero for terrorist training and an ideological funnel for the battlefield of Afghanistan, where the actual jihad is unfolding. The big trauma for Britain was the 2005 attack on the London Underground. Why was Britain, with a Muslim population of 2.7 million, targeted, but France, with a Muslim population of 5 million, spared? The reason was France’s opposition to Israel’s policy toward the Palestinians and its refusal to fall in line behind the U.S. while Britain stayed close to its transatlantic partner. But France caught up later as the conditions in which the Maghreb Arabs lived there ghettoized them and made them isolated and angry. Also, compared to Britain, France carried out better intelligence surveillance over an expat population that no longer integrated.

Generated by Jihad The Balkans, too, provided inspiration, as seen in the person of Ahmed Omar Saeed Sheikh, radicalized as an aid worker in Bosnia, where Muslims were being murdered by Serb nationalists. Born in England to Pakistani expat parents, Sheikh’s next stop was Pakistan, which was then fighting its covert war against India in Kashmir. He was caught and put in jail in India after violent acts of extraordinary daring but was sprung from prison through a plane hijacking. He was implicated in the murder of American journalist Daniel Pearl in Karachi, where the latter had gone to interview the much-pampered terrorist-spiritualist Mubarak Ali Gilani alias Mubarak Shah, head of a semi-jihadist outfit called Al Fuqara, whose member Richard “Shoe-bomber” Reid, a converted Briton, had attempted to blow up an American airliner in 2001 after being trained in Afghanistan and Lahore.Sheikh was deeply involved with Al Qaeda and was prized for his contacts within the Pakistani establishment. Historian Ayesha Jalal in her latest book, The Struggle for Pakistan: A Muslim Homeland and Global Politics, writes: “Two days after America started cluster-bombing the hapless Afghans, Musharraf ousted [Lt. Gen. Mahmud Ahmed], chief of Inter-Services Intelligence. There have been allegations that the move became unavoidable once India supplied evidence to the Americans confirming links between the World Trade Center hijackers and the ISI chief. The go-between was Sheikh, a British national and graduate of the London School of Economics who was one of the three militants released by India after the Kandahar plane hijacking. Sheikh had allegedly wired $100,000 to Mohammad Atta, one of the 19 hijackers on 9/11, at the alleged behest of the Pakistani spymaster.”

Mesmerized by Martyrdom The first Islamist-terrorist assault came not in the U.K. but in Madrid in 2004 which killed 200, but the one that really shook the world next to only 9/11 was the July 2005 bombing of trains and a bus in London by four suicide-bombers that killed 52. The leader of the four was Mohammad Siddique Khan, born in England to Pakistani expat parents, who went to Pakistan and trained as a killer in its various mujahideen camps. In his charge were two more British-born Pakistanis, Shahzad Tanveer, 22, and Haseeb Hussain, 18. Both also trained in Pakistan. The remains of Tanveer were sent back to Pakistan by a “sympathetic” British government—no one wants to lose the Pakistani vote—to be buried as a “martyr” in his ancestral village in the Punjab. Neither in Pakistan nor in the U.K. did Muslims believe for a minute that the boys had committed terrorism; they believed it was a Zionist-Western conspiracy, like 9/11.Then Rashid Rauf, a Pakistani baker’s son from Birmingham, confessed after being arrested in Bahawalpur that he had brought the London bombers to Pakistan and trained them. Then the plot thickened. Rauf was found to be related through his wife to Maulana Masood Azhar, head of Jaish-e-Mohammed, an Al Qaeda-linked terrorist militia whose





presence in Bahawalpur has been consistently denied by Islamabad. Azhar was rescued from an Indian jail—he had gone to India on a false passport from Sudan, where he had accompanied Osama bin Laden—through a hijacking that also sprang Sheikh, who is today on death row in a Hyderabad jail but can’t be hanged for reasons that remain a mystery. Rauf was allowed to escape in 2007 while being taken from a court in Islamabad to his prison in Rawalpindi: riding in a relative’s car with a police escort, he first got off “for a burger,” then was allowed to dismount “for prayers,” after which he disappeared. He died in a drone attack in 2008 in North Waziristan.

Guide to Ground Zero The case of Muhammad Merah is a dramatic moment in Burke’s book. He took revenge on France by killing a child, a Rabbi’s daughter: “Surveillance footage shows how the gunman chased her, caught her by the hair, put the muzzle of his weapon to her forehead, changed it for another when it jammed, put that gun too to the girl’s temple and killed her.”Merah was a petty offender in Toulouse who graduated ultimately to the status of Soldier of Islam by coming to Pakistan: “In August 2011, Merah flew from Paris to Lahore. The city had long been a favorite destination for young men seeking an entry into Islamic militancy and a center of extremist activism. One of the best-known local groups, based in a sprawling complex just south of the city, was Lashkar-e-Taiba, which had [allegedly] carried out the 2008 attacks on luxury hotels, a Jewish center, a tourist café and commuters in Mumbai. Another was Harkat-ul-Mujahideen. The two groups, which had their origins in the long conflict between India and Pakistan over Kashmir, both had significant training facilities and a history of recruiting foreigners. Elements of both had become significantly closer to Al Qaeda and similar international or transnational groups based in Pakistan since 2001. It is possible that Merah made contact with someone from one of these two organizations who dispatched him 180 miles across the country to Islamabad with an introduction to a mosque in the capital well known for its extremist sympathies.” You can guess the name of this mosque; it helped oust Pakistan’s “secular” military president Gen. Pervez Musharraf in 2008.Then there is the case of Mustafa Setmariam Nasar, alias Abu Musab al-Suri, of Aleppo, today known as the strategist of terror and therefore more important to jihad than even bin Laden and Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi. Driven out by the Syrian regime, he wound up in Pakistan in 1988, supporting local fighters and Arab volunteers in Afghanistan from Peshawar, “where he knew bin Laden and Ayman al-Zawahiri but maintained his distance from both.” The ideologue came into his own with his 1,600-page work, The Call for Global Islamic Resistance. Al-Suri was finally the inspiration of at least a thousand terrorist recruits in the U.K. after the 2005 London attack.

Remote SeductionOthers who provided inspiration were Omar Bakri Mohammed—a Syrian-born cleric who came to the U.K. in the mid-1990s creating two lethal organizations that were to poison life in Pakistan—and Anwar al-Awlaki, who established a global Internet outreach and caused people to kill, from Africa to Boston and Texas. Bakri fathered the Hizb ut-Tahrir and Al Muhajiroun organizations in the U.K. and penetrated all levels of society in Pakistan, including the Army.Brig. Ali Khan, director of rules and regulations at the Army’s General Headquarters, Rawalpindi, was court-martialed in 2011 along with four other Army officers “for having links with Hizb ut-Tahrir propagating the setting up of an Islamic caliphate.” The case of Col. Shahid Bashir—Commanding Officer of Shamsi Air Force Base used by the American force in Afghanistan—was worse. He was apprehended by the military police in 2009 for “links with this banned pan-Islamic political outfit, Hizb ut-Tahrir.”Burke also refers to a 2010 case when a member of British Parliament was knifed in the





stomach by a young British-Pakistani woman angered by his support for the Iraq war. Roshanara Chaudhry later told police that she had carried out the attack because as Muslims “we’re all brothers and sisters and we should all look out for each other and we shouldn’t sit back and do nothing while others suffer.” She had spent hundreds of hours taking in video lectures by al-Awlaki, the Yemen-based extremist American preacher. She was sentenced to life imprisonment amid shouts of “Allah-o-Akbar,” “British go to hell” and “Curse the judge” from the public gallery of the court.Al-Awlaki was killed in 2011 along with Samir Khan, the Pakistani editor of Internet magazine Inspire, which has spawned many killers, including Boston marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev and a Pakistani boy inspired to violence by this e-source of jihad. Last May, police shot dead Nadir Soofi—a Pakistani-American born to a conservative, religious Pakistani father from a “military family”—and his accomplice, Elton Simpson, as they launched a Kalashnikov attack on a blaspheming-cartoon contest in Garland, Texas. Soofi was brought up normally by his white mother but, growing up, discovered his Muslim roots in Inspire and the Internet harangues of al-Awlaki.Today, British Muslim girls are abandoning their schools to go for jihad and romance in Syria where “brave and handsome” Muslim boys are fighting a civil war in the name of jihad. The irony is no longer lost on a frightened world: Syria is expelling refugees into Europe that the U.K. will have to share with other EU members. As the new refugees settle down, their children will likely repeat the routine of radicalization, ending in violence and long-distance jihad. Meanwhile, Pakistan is coping, not too successfully, with the loss of internal sovereignty it allowed as the price for becoming the ground zero of jihad. From our Oct. 17-31, 2015, issue.

ISIS training ring for children discovered in Turkey's capitalNATASHA BERTRAND0 OCT 20, 2015, 12.28 AM

A screengrab of an ISIS propaganda video portraying a training camp for children.

An ISIS training camp for children has reportedly been discovered in Istanbul, according to the English-language Turkish newspaper the Hurriyet Daily News. Turkish police raided about 18 different homes in Istanbul's Pendik and Basaksehir districts over the weekend, detaining at least 50 people with suspected links to ISIS. Around 24 of them were children of Tajik and Uzbek origin who had been receiving militant training in basement apartments. "The suspects, mostly Uzbeks, who were detained in the Oct. 18 raids were reported to have lectured children on the basics of ISIL as well as how to live in an Islamic state," the Hurriyet reported. The Uzbekistan Islamic Movement, once affiliated with al-Qaeda, pledged its allegiance to ISIS in August.The Turkish security forces' anti-terror sweep comes in the wake of a suicide bombing at an Ankara peace rally on October 10 that killed over 100 people and injured scores more.The attack drew Turkey's ISIS problem into sharp focus and angered many who believed it could have been prevented had police done more to crack down on the jihadis - especially since the suspected bombers were reportedly on authorities' radar long before they carried out their attack.Turkish media has reported that the suspected terrorists - Yunus Emre Alagoz and Omer Deniz Dundar - were on a list of 21 suspected would-be suicide bombers





and appear to have been linked to a known ISIS cell in the southeastern city of Adiyaman. Turkey has long been accused by the international community of adopting a risky "wait-and-see" approach when it came to the jihadists crossing back and forth between Turkey and Syria. Since 2011, militants have been taking advantage of Turkey's loose southern border to cross back and forth between Turkey and Syria. The open border policy, which ended in 2014, was meant to enable foreign fighters who wanted to help topple Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad, but it ended up facilitating the creation of a potentially vengeful ISIS network within Turkey's borders. After Turkey bombed ISIS for the first time on July 23, ISIS released a video denouncing Erdogan as a "traitor" and calling on Turkish Muslims to take back Istanbul from "those crusaders, atheists and tyrants." The video heightened fears that another Suruc-style attack - or worse - was imminent.

Shortly after the bombing in Ankara - the worst ever attack on Turkish soil - the leader of the pro-Kurdish People's Democracy Party (HDP) blasted the government for not doing more to investigate the ISIS cell that had produced the Suruc bomber and his brother. Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu announced shortly after the bombing that there was reason to believe the PKK and ISIS coordinated the attack, so both would be investigated. But any links between the PKK and ISIS (who are bitter enemies, due to the fight between the Kurds and ISIS in northern Syria) have never been verified.Critics have since denounced Davutoglu's statement as a political tactic meant to justify the government's continued war against the PKK - a war that, with all of its emphasis on Kurdish insurgents, has allowed violent extremists like Alagoz and Dundar to slip through the cracks. "This was a disaster waiting to happen," Aykan Erdemir, a nonresident fellow at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies and a former member of Turkish parliament, told BI by email. "It is appalling how they missed these guys."

Turkey Still Dances with ISISby Burak BekdilThe Gatestone InstituteOctober 15, 2015Originally published under the title "Turkey's Grisly Dances with the Islamic State."





On October 10, Turkey woke up to the worst single terror attack in its history. The twin suicide-bomb attack in Ankara killed 97 and injured nearly 250 people, with more than 60 of the wounded being treated in intensive care. As of October 14, no one had claimed responsibility, but all indications pointed to the Islamic State (ISIS, or IS)—the same jihadists Turkey's Islamist government once helped logistically, in the hope that they would facilitate Syrian President Bashar al-Assad's downfall and the establishment of an Islamist regime there. In fact, the attack in front of the main train station in downtown Ankara looked like a bigger-scale version of a July 20 attack in Suruc, a small town on Turkey's border with Syria. A Turkish-Kurdish suicide-bomber with ties to the Islamic State murdered 33 people at a pro-Kurdish meeting in Suruc, and paved the way for a spiral of violence that has since claimed hundreds of lives. Actually, since most of the deaths resulted mostly from Turkish-Kurdish clashes, the attacks may have claimed thousands: Kurdish militants' casualties remain unknown. Since July 20, more than 150 Turkish police and military officers have been killed.ISIS felt that Turks had not followed its call to "rise up and fight against these atheists, these Crusaders and these traitors."

One of the two perpetrators of the Ankara bombings now is believed to be the brother of the Suruc bomber. The second suspect also has alleged ties with jihadist groups. On October 10, thousands of pro-peace activists from different NGOs—most of them pro-Kurdish, secular, leftist and opponents of the AKP government—had gathered in front of Ankara's main railway station, to protest the wave of violence sparked by the Islamic State suicide-bombing in Suruc in July. They had no way of knowing that two other jihadists would turn their "peace rally" into a bloodbath. The usual police body searches for weapons or bombs—carried out routinely before every public rally—were omitted this time. Interior Minister Selami Altinok admitted that the body searches were not done, but refused to accept allegations of negligence.The murder of nearly 100 people in a terror attack is shocking wherever in the world it happens, or whoever commits it. But the Ankara attack was hardly a total surprise. This author has mentioned at least a few times the findings of an August 2014 poll, which found that 11.3% of Turks did not view the Islamic State as a terrorist organization. Eleven percent is in no way a marginal figure: If a "mere" 11.3% of Turks thought so generously of ISIS, it meant that there were nearly nine million Turks sympathetic to jihadists. And only 5% of that would mean an army of nearly 450,000. The two suicide-bombers on October 10 were most likely just a two of that big bunch of 450,000 or so sleepers inside Turkey.

Shocking? Not really. In August, the Turkish Justice Ministry revealed that there were only 126 people in Turkish prisons on charges of being a member of IS. "Hence the





unnerving threat of IS attacks on Turkish cities, most probably by the group's 'sleeper cells' inside Turkey," this journalist previously warned. IS had recently released a video promising to "conquer" Istanbul by the armies of the Caliph: Soon, Turkey's east will be dominated by the atheist PKK [Kurdish militants], and the West will be dominated by the Crusaders. They will kill children, rape women, and enslave you. O people of Turkey; before [it is] too late, you should rise up and fight against these atheists, these Crusaders and these traitors. You should also repent. You should condemn democracy, secularism, human-made laws, tomb-worshipping and other devils. Apparently, the people of Turkey did not "rise up and fight against these atheists, these Crusaders and these traitors." So they had to be killed by jihadists in suicide-bombing attacks. IS promised to attack, and it did. 450,000 minus two (suicide-bombers) leaves behind too big a number. Turkish cities are unsafe. Turkey's Islamist leaders look appalled to have been attacked by their one-time comrades. They should not. They wanted to dance with the devil in order to "Islamize" the failed state of Syria. The dance has ended up in carnage. It had to.Turkey's Islamist leaders once hoped that they would triumphantly visit Damascus when it would be Sunni Islamist, not Shia and secular. Instead, their former jihadist friends hit them right in the heart of their capital. But Ankara does not learn. Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu, instead of calling a spade a spade, mentioned three other organizations as potential culprits for the attack. In addition to the Islamic State, he said, other suspects were the PKK, the Revolutionary People's Liberation Party-Front (DHKP-C) and the Marxist-Leninist Communist Party (MLKP). These Kurdish and extreme left organizations mentioned by Davutoglu are big enemies of jihadists, not friends with whom to jointly organize a terror attack. Most victims were sympathizers of the Kurdish and leftist groups. Yet four days after the Ankara bomb attack, after the police had already identified the two suicide-bombers as Turkish sleepers linked with the Islamic State, Davutoglu still said that the attackers were linked with both IS jihadists and Kurdish militants. Davutoglu cannot admit that jihadists alone simply murdered people en masse in twin bomb attacks. The Ankara bombing was a bad ending of one part of the Turkish Islamists' willing dance with the devil. The dance is not over yet.Burak Bekdil is an Ankara-based columnist for the Turkish newspaper Hürriyet Daily News and a fellow at the Middle East Forum.

Turkey (AFP 24 Oct ) — Two weeks after more than a hundred people were killed in an Ankara bomb attack, Turkey is still unraveling clues that suggest the Islamic State group was responsible, fueling opposition anger over an apparently enormous security lapse by the government. IS was immediately considered “suspect number one” after twin suicide bombings on October 10 in front of the city’s train station killed 102 people, due to similarities with an earlier bombing blamed on the jihadist organization. Once again, TNT explosives packed with metal ball bearings devastated a pro-Kurdish rally: Ankara seemed a more ambitious version of the bombing in Suruc on the Syrian border in July, which left 34 people dead — and critics say the security forces should have seen it coming. Media reports this week said the national police headquarters had warned in September that IS militants were preparing a large attack in Turkey, such as hijacking a plane or detonating suicide bombs in a crowded location.The post-attack probe focused on some 20 known jihadists and uncovered 11 suicide vests, six Kalashnikovs, 22 hand grenades and explosives, suggesting there were plans in place for another attack on Turkish soil.According to the pro-government news agency Anatolia, the cell had originally planned to attack the headquarters of the pro-Kurdish and liberal Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP), but targeted the peace rally at the last moment. Prosecutors this week formally identified





one of the suicide bombers, Yunus Emre Alagoz, a young Turk from the Islamist militant stronghold of Adiyaman and the brother of the man suspected of carrying out the Suruc attack. Turkish media have identified the second bomber as Omer Deniz Dundar, who had twice been to Syria — and was on a list of dangerous individuals — though some reports say the accomplice may have been a foreign IS member. olice are reported to have arrested one of the men who helped get the two bombers to their targets, who allegedly told investigators he was amazed they had all got through a checkpoint unnoticed.Turkish daily Today’s Zaman claimed the arrested man, named Yakup Sahin, had been tailed by security forces on suspicion of ties with IS, but police lost him and failed to react when he surfaced again in Ankara on the morning of the attack. Amid the confusion, President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Thursday pinned responsibility for the Ankara bombing on a “terror collective” comprising not only IS, but also Turkish and Syrian Kurds and the Syrian intelligence service. Ankara’s chief of police and two other officials were fired in the wake of the attack as details emerged of failures by security services to keep track of suspect individuals, with the government accused of seriously underestimating IS.

Unraveling Islamic State’s Turkish recruitment schemeDIYARBAKIR, Turkey — Desperate families searching for their missing sons have helped authorities identify a leading Islamic State (IS) recruiter. **The recent Ankara bombing is being blamed on a suicide bomber unit of the Islamic State, known as Dokumacilar, recruited from Turkey’s southeastern province of Adiyaman.Author Mahmut Bozarslan Posted October 23, 2015The suicide bombers behind the worst attacks in recent months have two things in common: They are all from the southeastern Turkey province of Adiyaman, and they are members of the Dokumacilar Unit of IS. Dokumaci is the last name of their recruiter, Mustafa Dokumaci. In Turkish, Dokumaci means “weaver.” There were reports earlier about the existence of a group called the Adiyamanists, but in the last attack, in Ankara, they were firmly identified as Dokumacilar. One mother from Adiyaman, whose son joined IS and disappeared, blamed Dokumacilar member Seyh Abdurrahman Alagoz, perpetrator of the Suruc bombing in July. Authorities say his older brother, Yunus Emre Alagoz, also is affiliated with IS; he was photographed in Ankara before he allegedly set off one of the bombs there Oct. 10.“Abdurrahman took my son away. I asked him where my son was. He said he was hurting too because his brother had joined [IS] also. [Another young man] and Seyh Abdurrahman seduced my son. My son, who was classmates with Seyh Abdurrahman, in turn deceived one of our relatives to join them. I told Seyh he was responsible for the fate of my son.” She testified to a team from the Republican People’s Party (CHP) that was preparing a report on IS activities in Adiyaman. She didn’t want her name to be used.Another source that testified to the same CHP team was related to Orhan Gonder, who was arrested and charged with setting off a bomb in June at the Pro-Kurdish Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) rally in Diyarbakir.“When our son disappeared, we searched all over. For eight months we went to the border, gave his photograph to the governor. We advertised in newspapers as a missing person 10 times. We spoke with the prime minister at the AKP [Justice and Development Party] provincial assembly. The prime minister said to us, ‘I instructed the MIT [National Intelligence Organization] about your son.’ I spoke with the middle man who took my son away. He promised us he would be back in 18 days. I went to the Akcakale police and gave them his photos. I went to the border crossing and pleaded with the police chief. He took me to [a crossing] where other families were waiting. I knew my son was at Tell Abyad. I stayed at Akcakale six days. I never saw my son,” the source was quoted as





saying in the CHP report. It is estimated that Dokumaci so far has enlisted about 400 people from Adiyaman. About 60 of them are thought to be trained as suicide bombers.Intelligence services have identified 21 of them and released photographs of 19. Some are still believed to be in Turkey. The first stop for those who join IS from Turkey is often Raqqa, Syria, where Dokumaci lives. They are trained as suicide bombers before returning to Turkey. They are chosen for the task because they know the country and can move about easily. Hikmet Durgun of Russian Sputnik Media Group, who has reported extensively on IS, had warned of a possible suicide attack in Turkey before the Ankara bombing. Durgun told Al-Monitor that although the bombers are from Adiyaman, they usually aren't sent back there unless it is necessary. “They go to Ankara, Istanbul and Gaziantep," he said. "The relatives of those who joined [IS] have been complaining bitterly about [Dokumaci]. The two bombers in the Ankara attack were also recruited by Dokumaci." Turks who join IS usually cross over to Syria from Gaziantep. “All those who join [IS] first go to Raqqa. Before, they used to go to Tell Abyad. But when that town fell into YPG [People's Protection Units] hands, they stopped going there. Now they are settled in areas closer to the border. The idea is to use them to mobilize and organize Turkmens who live in that area. There used to be plenty of Turkmens at Tell Abyad. When YPG captured the town, [IS] militants fled to Raqqa,” he added. Abdurrahman Tutdere, a lawyer and member of the CHP team that wrote the report, said IS formed a recruitment system in Adiyaman. “They target children of poor families and work on recruiting them. They take them across in ones and twos. Then they come back and recruit others. They have set up a pipeline system. Those who go to [IS] for training come back and recruit more in Turkey,” he told Al-Monitor. Tutdere said the number of those joining from Adiyaman could have been exaggerated. He noted that after the report was published, CHP didn’t receive any new reports of enlistment in IS.Osman Suzen, the local head of the Human Rights Association, emphasized that the Dokumacilar Unit was exposed by the efforts of families of missing children. Suzen, speaking to Al-Monitor, said the Adiyaman name gained recognition as the birthplace of the suicide bombers. “There is a misperception. There are people who enlist from Hatay, Gaziantep, Diyarbakir, Bingol and Konya. But everyone talks of Adiyaman because the bombing cell was made up of Adiyaman natives. How do you know how many joined from Diyarbakir?" he said. "There are 16 people known as the Dokumacilar Unit. Who knows about 400 recruits? Where are they? Dokumacilar wasn’t known before as a unit, but Mustafa Dokumaci was already identified thanks to efforts of the families searching for their sons. They helped unravel the recruitment scheme. Mind you, their identification did not stop them from coming and going. They come, stay a little and leave. Everyone in Adiyaman knows this." Suzen noted that another key IS recruiter, Kasap Haci, was arrested.

Why is Turkey not hitting ISIL? The bomb in Suruç exploded on July 20. Turkey opened İncirlik airbase to the United States with a telephone conversation between U.S. President Barack Obama and Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan on July 22. Following a series of unilateral small scale aerial attacks against Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) targets in Syria, the results of which we are not sure about, it took more than a month to have the necessary protocol with the U.S. to join the whole-scale coalition attacks against ISIL. The signatures came on Aug. 24. The Turkish Foreign Ministry issued a statement five days later on Aug. 28, declaring that Turkish planes had joined the attacks against ISIL targets in Syria. I realized the first oddity reading the news that came after this statement. Turkish newspapers were full of stories on how Turkish planes had





inflicted damage on ISIL and how seven ISIL targets were hit north of Aleppo. But in the coalition attacks reports coming from CENTCOM, only one aerial attack was seen to be have taken place in that region. In the report dated Aug. 28, apart from Kurdish regions, there was only one aerial attack north of Aleppo. The same for the Aug. 29 report. On Aug. 30, I forwarded a written question to CENTCOM: “Does that list include the aerial attacks that Turkish planes conduct in the framework of the coalition?” Nikolaj Thide, the spokesperson of CENTCOM, answered me in written form and said, “Yes, it includes [such attacks].” Then I tried to clarify this: Did Turkey really conduct those aerial bombings but was not included in CENTCOM reports because they were unsuccessful? I asked this question many times. But as the issue is about relations with an ally country, the Pentagon did not clarify this. And that’s where I was stuck.And then, as you know, came a long period of silence on ISIL. And we left ISIL aside after the news that came at the end of August and started to read about Turkey’s aerial bombings against the outlawed Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK). Exactly one and a half months later came the Oct. 14 statement of Josh Earnest, the spokesperson of the White House that clarified all the developments:“We’ve also seen, just in the last 24 hours or so, Turkey step up their activity inside of Syria. And we had reports overnight that the Turks, for the first time, successfully struck a mobile ISIL target inside of Syria.”Turks objected. “We did not hit it, the U.S. hit it,” they said. And with this effort to create a contradiction they tried to conceal the most crucial detail in Earnest’s statement. Why? Because this came to the surface with Earnest’s statement, behind which the U.S. administration still stands. The attack in Suruç took place. Turks joined the coalition against ISIL. They said “We hit it.” Yet, it was revealed they hit no target within the framework of the coalition. And while Turkey was not targeting ISIL, and focusing on other things, names related to ISIL conducted the biggest bombing attack in the history of the Turkish republic. That’s why the answer to the question of why Turkey hit ISIL targets for the first time on Oct. 14 within the framework of the attacks by the coalition it joined on Aug. 28 is important to this issue. I talked to two different sources at the Pentagon. The first official said, “In the beginning they joined the operation, but then for a long time they did not [participate in it].” In other words, during the month of September, while Turkey earmarked its resources to the fight with the PKK, it did not even try to hit ISIL. But the first initial trials became unsuccessful. The second official pointed to the political dimension of the issue and said, “The priority for Turks is the PKK.” In other words, Turkey on the one hand used in a wrong way its resources by not focusing on ISIL and on the other was unsuccessful in hitting ISIL targets. This has happened before. You have seen how Ankara provided wrong information about the train-and-equip program and how that program failed later. But this is something else. We are facing an administration that cannot protect its citizens and cannot prevent the murder of innocent people. The Turkish government needs to explain to the Turkish public and to the world why it did not hit ISIL.October/19/2015




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