Louai Sakka
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Louai Sakka is a Syrian of turkish background, who security officials in Turkey, suspected played a role in a terrorist bombing.[1] Sakka was represented by Osman Karakan a Turkish lawyer sympathetic to jihadists.[2]
References
- ↑ Karl Vick (2006-02-20). "A Bomb-Builder, 'Out of the Shadows': Syrian Linked to Al Qaeda Plots Describes Plan to Attack Cruise Ship in Turkey". Washington Post. Archived from the original on 2012-08-06. http://www.webcitation.org/query?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.washingtonpost.com%2Fwp-dyn%2Fcontent%2Farticle%2F2006%2F02%2F19%2FAR2006021901336_pf.html&date=2012-08-06. "His real identity began to emerge shortly after 3 a.m. on Aug. 4, when the windows of Apt. 1703 blew out, showering the parking lot with the contents of the kitchen and bits and pieces of the massive bomb Sakka had been painstakingly assembling in the living room. Sakka, who escaped the inferno only to be arrested two days later, turned out to be a senior operative for al Qaeda and intimately linked to major terrorist plots in Turkey, Jordan and Iraq, where he had worked beside Abu Musab Zarqawi, a longtime confederate."
- ↑ Bill Roggio (2012-08-06). "Lawyer who defended suspected al Qaeda militants in Turkey killed in Aleppo". Long War Journal. http://www.longwarjournal.org/archives/2012/08/lawyer_who_defended.php. Retrieved 2012-08-06. "Karahan had defended numerous al Qaeda suspects in Turkey, most notably Loua'i Sakka, a Turkish-speaking Syrian thought to be the planner of the November 2003 truck bombings in Istanbul. Those bombings killed some 60 people in Istanbul during twin simultaneous attacks on two synagogues, an HSBC branch, and the British Consulate."
