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| November 24, 2003 | Matthews, Owen; Kohen, Sami; Fineman, Howard; Miller, Karen Lowry; Nadeau, Barbie; Pepper, Tara; Patel, Vibhuti; Lindow, Megan; McGuigan, Cathleen; Ali, Lorraine | COPYRIGHT 2003 Newsweek, Inc. All rights reserved. Any reuse, distribution or alteration without express written permission of Newsweek is prohibited. For permission: www.newsweek.com. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)Copyright

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 ...

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