Police stopped as many as seven trucks in Adana that were carrying weapons and explosives near the Syrian border; the Adana governor’s office said the trucks were on a regular duty for National Intelligence. Foreign Minister Davutoğlu claimed that the Islamic State of Iraq and the Sham is working with the Assad regime in Syria. The opposition CHK party continued to question Prime Minister Erdogan’s alleged close links to US-designated global terrorist Yasin al-Qadi; and to Usama Qutb, the nephew of both Muhammed Qutb, a mentor of al Qaeda emir Ayman al Zawahiri, and Sayyid Qutb, an Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood founder and assassin of Egyptian president Gamel Abdel Nasser.
