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ISIS leadership was involved in planning the Istanbul airport attack.
June,30,2016
Airport Attack;
According to CNN report,Istanbul goverenment official says,ISIS leadership was involved in planning the Istanbul airport attack and the bombers had traveled to Syria.Istanbul airport attackers were from Russia, Uzbekistan, Kyrgyzstan.Turkish official told Thursday,The attackers who carried out Tuesday's shootings and suicide bombings at Istanbul's Ataturk Airport were from Russia, Uzbekistan and Kyrgyzstan.Turkish authorities had previously said they had indications the men were foreigners, but had not said where they came from.Turkish Interior Minister Efkar Ala announced that the death toll from the attacks had risen to 43, according to state news agency Anadolu.While no one has yet claimed responsibility for the airport assault, Turkish authorities have said most signs point to ISIS, and CNN contributor Michael Weiss, author of "ISIS: Inside the Army of Terror," said the nationalities buttress that claim."One of the toughest battalions in ISIS is called the Uzbek battalion," he said. "These were the guys who were essentially on the front lines guarding Falluja, the city they just lost in Iraq."He said,"Ask anybody inside ISIS or who's fought ISIS. People from the former Soviet Union tend to be the most battle-hardened and willing to die."A Turkish official told CNN on Thursday,Authorities have now detained 22 people in connection with the Ataturk Airport attack.Thirteen people were taken into custody in Istanbul and nine in the coastal city of Izmir, the official said. Three of those detained were foreign nationals, state media reported.The terrorists stormed the airport Tuesday night, opening fire and detonating explosives -- two of them at the international terminal building, and the third in a parking lot, according to officials. In addition to the 43 killed, hundreds of people were injured.
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