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Turkish fundamentalist today in Tribunal: in 1998 planned to detonate an airplane

Ankara, Turkey - He wanted to restore the Muslim Caliphate in Turkey

It will be today before Tribunal, the Turkish fundamentalist, Metin Kaplan, which in 1998 would have arranged a plan to diverted a plane over the Ataturk mausoleum to Ankara and then detonate it. The militant, also called "The Cologne Caliph", yesterday has been extradited from Germany to Turkey, after a legal strenght fight. Kaplan, charged for the attempt to have perverted the constitutional order...

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Rome, Italy, 10/13/2004 18:10
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