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Bin Laden Relative Arrested In Turkey Before Bombing

While there's no connection between the arrest of Osama bin Laden’s son-in-law, Suleiman Abu Gheith, days before the suicide bombing of the U.S. Embassy in Ankara, and the bombing itself, both incidents put the focus on Turkey’s role in combating terrorism, reports Tulin Daloglu.
Footage from a video obtained by Reuters shows a man identified as al
Qaeda spokesman Suleiman Abu Gheith speaking into a camera, warning
American Muslims and opponents of American policy not to fly in
airplanes or live in tall buildings. The source who provided the video
to Reuters and a British Sunday newspaper said this and pictures of a
man identified as Osama bin Laden were filmed in March 2002. If
genuine, the film would provide the first proof that bin Laden survived
the U.S.-led onslaught on

On the same day when the U.S. Embassy in Ankara was attacked by a suicide bomber, the Turkish daily Milliyet had an exclusive front-page report with the headline: “Bin Laden’s son-in-law arrested in Ankara.”

According to this exclusive report on Feb. 1 by Tolga Sardan, the CIA had tipped off the Turkish National Intelligence Organization (MIT) that Osama bin Laden’s son-in-law, Suleiman Abu Gheith, has entered Turkey with a forged passport, and that the Turkish security forces have recently arrested him at a hotel in Ankara’s Cankaya district, where Turkey’s presidential palace, the U.S. ambassador’s residential compound, and a number of embassies are also located.

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