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    TURKEY-BOUND SHIPS TAKE MILITANTS TO IRAQ, SYRIA: INTERPOL

    Interpol says terrorists use cruise ships to get to countries including
    Turkey to join Takfiri groups in Syria and Iraq.

    Fri Nov 7, 2014 7:21AM GMT
    http://www.presstv.com/detail/2014/11/07/385091/turkeybound-ships-take-militants-to-iraq/

    Foreign terrorists are increasingly going to Turkey through booking
    tickets on cruise ships to join Takfiri groups in neighboring Syria
    and Iraq, Interpol has warned.

    "Because they know the airports are monitored more closely now,
    there's a use of cruise ships to travel to those areas," Pierre St.

    Hilaire, the director of counterterrorism at Interpol, said on
    Thursday.

    He added that the international police body has evidence that "the
    individuals, especially in Europe, are traveling mostly to [the
    Turkish coastal town of] Izmit and other places to engage in this
    type of activity."

    Turkey has come under international criticism for allowing thousands
    of foreign terrorists to join Takfiri groups such as ISIL, which has
    captured large areas across Iraq and Syria.

    "It's a global threat -- 15,000 fighters or more from 81 countries
    traveling to one specific conflict zone," St. Hilaire said.

    He noted that some 300 militants from China have joined terrorist
    groups fighting in Syria and Iraq.

    Speaking at an Interpol meeting in Monaco this week, Interpol Secretary
    General Ronald K. Noble confirmed that Turkey was a destination for
    the terrorists.

    The outgoing Interpol chief also called on countries to step up
    screening at "airports and, more and more, cruise lines" to halt the
    flow of terrorists to the war-torn countries.

    "Originally, our concern about people on cruise ships -- dangerous
    people on cruise ships -- really focused on the classic sort of rapist,
    burglar, or violent criminal," Noble said.

    Interpol has "realized that there are more and more reports that people
    are using cruise ships in order to get to launch pads, if you will --
    sort of closer to the conflict zones -- of Syria and Iraq," he noted.

    Many European countries have called on Turkey to tighten its border to
    block the entry of recruits from European countries into Syria. They
    have expressed concern that home-grown terrorists will return home
    with skills to carry out terror attacks.

    The Takfiri ISIL terrorists currently control parts of eastern Syria
    and Iraq's northern and western regions. They have committed heinous
    crimes and threatened all communities, including Shias, Sunnis, Kurds,
    Christians and Izadi Kurds, during their advances in Iraq.

    DB/NN/KA



    From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress
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