Turkey

Ankara now believes that when it arrested Tunisian Malek Charahili in September, suspected of smuggling al Qaeda terrorists into Iraq, they also nabbed the head of al Qaeda’s Turkey operations. Charahili succeeded Luai Sakka, a Syrian who was in the final phase of planned suicide attacks on Israeli cruise ships in port in Turkey and subsequently arrested.

Bill Roggio is a Senior Fellow at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies and the Editor of FDD's Long War Journal.

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