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Turkey Says Bombing Suspects Linked to Syria
(Washington Post) Liz Sly - Twin car bomb explosions in the Turkish border town of Reyhanli on Saturday killed 46 people and injured 155. Turkish Interior Minister Muammer Guler said nine Turkish citizens detained in connection with the blast had ties to Syrian intelligence agencies. "This incident was carried out by an organization...in close contact to pro-regime groups in Syria and, I say this very clearly, with the Syrian mukhabarat." Reyhanli, five miles from a key border post with Syria, has become an important hub for the Syrian opposition, hosting aid outfits, rebel fighters, arms dealers and refugees. But the vast majority of the victims of the blasts, which targeted the post office and the municipal headquarters, were Turkish.