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Source: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/01/22/AR2010012200651.html
Report: 120 Al-Qaeda Suspects Detained in Turkey
(AP/Washington Post) Turkey's Anatolia news agency says Turkish police have rounded up 120 people in 16 provinces suspected of ties to the al-Qaeda terror network. Those detained include a university faculty member suspected of recruiting students and sending them to Afghanistan for training. Homegrown Islamic militants tied to al-Qaeda carried out suicide bombings in Istanbul in 2003, killing 58 people.