Is Al-Qaeda REALLY An 'Enemy of the West' and Its Allies?: Al-Qaeda Suspects 'Allowed' To Escape Turkey - They Had Info On A Corruption Scandal

World Trade Center New York 2001. (Photo by Loco Steve)

Al-Qaeda, we are told, organized the attack on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon on September 11, 2001. They've been designated a 'terrorist organization' by the US State Department, are on 'most wanted' lists and its members have multimillion-dollar bounties on their heads. Yet al-Qaeda members are allowed to reside within Turkey (a member of NATO) and get comfortable enough to get involved in political corruption, and even get enough "protection" to escape when a scandal breaks out - all without a peep from the United States. So was the al-Qaeda 'menace' merely a handy and much needed new boogieman after the fall of the Soviet Union?

From Today's Zaman, İstanbul
Al-Qaeda-linked Yusuf Al Qadi and Osama Khoutub, who are among the suspects in a major graft probe, have reportedly fled Turkey after the Justice and Development Party (AK Party) blocked a police raid on Wednesday as İstanbul police refused to comply with orders of prosecutors to detain several suspects in the second leg of the investigation.

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The İstanbul Chief Public Prosecutor's Office ordered the detention of 30 suspects, including a number of deputies and businessmen. The İstanbul Police Department, which saw an extensive purge of its top officers over the last week, has not complied with the order, however.
News reports suggest that when the list of 30 suspects leaked to media on Wednesday, some of the suspects took precautionary measures to avoid incriminating themselves in the case of a police raid on their homes or offices.

And some suspects fled Turkey, including al-Qaeda Turkey operatives Al Qadi and Khoutub, after government blocked the investigation through newly appointed police chiefs who refused to comply with court decision.

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