Turkey’s military police issued a secret report earlier this month that Syrian al-Qaeda fighters have smuggled 10 cars full of explosives with fake identifying plates into Turkey, apparently in an attempt to blackmail Turkey into recognizing them as a “legitimate” part of Syria’s rebellion.
Turkey has provided aid to some al-Qaeda linked factions and is openly backing the rebellion, but has declined to endorse the al-Qaeda fighters publicly.
Car bombs in Turkey have so far mostly targeted border crossings, with an effort by Syrian rebel factions to target the crossings held by rival factions, which are transit points for Turkish aid.
The report comes less than a week after a similar report of four “rigged cars” smuggled into Lebanon by al-Qaeda in Syria, in that case with an eye on attacking Shi’ite neighborhoods. In both cases the cars remain apparently at large, with the timing and target of the attacks unknown.
biting the hand that feeds…sounds like prince bandar's balckmail tactic. It should be a warning how these folk can be used in future when is comes to their socalled backers…
This is a predictable consequence of my (US) Government's providing a "safe haven" for Al Qaeda terrorists in Syria for the past two years. It is amazing that US media have totally missed (or deliberately refused to recognize) the fact that — although US media daily report the existence and exact location of self-proclaimed Al Qaeda affiliates (including but not limited to Al Nusra and the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria) openly operating in and occupying cities, towns and villages throughout Syria — THERE HAVE BEEN NO REPORTED US DRONE OR OTHER MILITARY ATTACKS ON AL QAEDA IN SYRIA FOR THE PAST TWO YEARS. Since we know that the US Government deems itself free to attack Al Qaeda groups anywhere on the planet — and we also know that President Obama personally meets with top advisers every week to update and reprioritize a "terrorist hit list" — it surely cannot have escaped the attention of President Obama that the various Al Qaeda terrorist groups openly operating in Syria are obvious candidates to be at the top of the "terrorist hit list." So why have notorious and easily targeted Al Qaeda terrorists in Syria been spared US drone or other military attacks?
This is a predictable consequence of my (US) Government's providing a "safe haven" for Al Qaeda terrorists in Syria for the past two years. It is amazing that US media have totally missed (or deliberately refused to recognize) the fact that — although US media daily report the existence and exact location of self-proclaimed Al Qaeda affiliates (including but not limited to Al Nusra and the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria) openly operating in and occupying cities, towns and villages throughout Syria — THERE HAVE BEEN NO REPORTED US DRONE OR OTHER MILITARY ATTACKS ON AL QAEDA IN SYRIA FOR THE PAST TWO YEARS. Since we know that the US Government deems itself free to attack Al Qaeda groups anywhere on the planet — and we also know that President Obama personally meets with top advisers every week to update and reprioritize a "terrorist hit list" — it surely cannot have escaped the attention of President Obama that the various Al Qaeda terrorist groups openly operating in Syria are obvious candidates to be at the top of the "terrorist hit list." So why have notorious and easily targeted Al Qaeda terrorists in Syria been spared US drone or other military attacks?