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TURKEY
Savagery in Istanbul
Who bombed the synagogues in Istanbul? Despite initial claims of responsibility from an obscure Turkish Islamic fundamentalist group known as the Islamic Great Eastern Raiders' Front, or IBDA-C, Turkish security sources are pointing the finger at an outside organization such as Al Qaeda. The IBDA-C is a tiny group whose leaders are mostly in jail--in its heyday in the early 1990s it was known for firebombing liquor shops and for a botched assassination of a prominent Jewish businessman. It's unlikely, Turkish security sources tell NEWSWEEK, that the group has the sophistication to mount a coordinated attack like last ...