Police Arrest 120 members of Al Qaeda

Turkish police arrested 120 members of the group al-Qaeda network in a major anti-terror operation scale. Turkish news agency, Anatolia, Friday (22 / 1), reported an ambush carried out simultaneously in 16 provinces, including Ankara and Istanbul.

Operation performed before dawn after police find documents containing details about the activities of the group network in Turkey. In that raid, police also found equipment for making bombs, identity cards and false passports, as well as camouflage clothes in an ambush them.

One of the arrested person is believed to be the leader of Al Qaeda in Turkey, Serdar Elbasa, which are known to have a code name Abu Zer. Another one arrested was the leader of Al Qaeda in Gaziantep province bordering Syria.

Anatolia, citing officials who are not to be named, reported, a student of a university in the city of Van arrested for allegedly joined the recruitment of students and other people and send them to Afghanistan for training.

Earlier this week, Turkish security forces also arrested 25 suspected members of Al Qaeda group network in an operation.

The view of Al Qaeda does not have much support in Turkey. Armed groups linked to Al Qaeda had made a suicide bomb attack in Istanbul, killing 58 people in 2003.

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Reported from Afghanistan, President Hamid Karzai on Friday, revealed an ambitious plan to persuade Taliban members to lay down their arms and work cash offer. The official announcement will be made about Afghanistan at a conference in London, England, next week.

"We know that the people of Afghanistan, we must have peace in any way," Karzai said in an interview with the BBC. He hoped the plan would have the support of the international community to provide the necessary funds.

Taliban members who approached, continued Karzai, will be given the ability to work, get a job, protection, and mingle again with their communities. Hard-line supporters of the Taliban, also a member of Al Qaeda, will not be accepted.

Taliban gave their volunteers a fee higher than salaries for the Afghan government troops.

Karzai was also optimistic about the future of his country. He estimates that, within five years of Afghanistan could be in control of security forces and could fight corruption and drugs.

Taliban movement continues to increase deadly attacks against the Government of Afghanistan since the U.S. invasion toppled the Taliban government in 2001.

Karzai's plan in accordance with the proposed Washington extremists who tried to restore lower and middle class back into community life.

Taliban spokesperson, Zabihullah Mujahid, insisted would not accept Karzai. "Our goal is freedom and independence of our country." (www.rainbowdiplomacy.com/Kompas daily, January 23, 2010)