You see, I think the showrunners are not only plotters, they're ending-focused plotters by design.
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"Obviously, there are coup plotters, and the coup plotters need to be held accountable and they will be," Mr. Kerry said on ABC.
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Many of us use modern hobbyist plotters like the Makeblock or AxiDraw while others use vintage hardware from the '80s, usually HP brand plotters that were actually used for e.g.
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The identity of the plotters, and their motives, remain murky.
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The plotters planned to carry out their attack on Nov.
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Plotters usually accomplish this with a predictable set of steps.
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Accused of being one of the plotters behind the Sept.
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Tellingly, the coup-plotters asked their American contact for encrypted radios.
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Erdogan accuses Germany of harbouring plotters behind the 2016 coup attempt.
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Turkey accuses Germany of harboring plotters behind the 2016 coup attempt.
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"I've got bad news for the coup plotters," a friend joked.
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But again, word got out and the plotters held their fire.
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By 4 A.M. , the coup plotters were running for their lives.
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Erdogan accuses Germany of harboring plotters behind the 2016 coup attempt.
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Momentum turned against the coup plotters as the night wore on.
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Anchor says she read the coup plotters' statement under gun threat. pic.twitter.
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"We aren't criminals, nor crazy, nor coup plotters, nor abducted," he said.
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That may have led the plotters to strike before they were ready.
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In that job I learned CAD and how to work with plotters.
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Erdogan blames the West for helping alleged coup plotters and their sympathizers.
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But the question that the plotters can't answer easily is, Then what?
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Coup plotters cold-heartedly opening fire on civilians...still claim it's staged?
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But holding multiple meetings with the plotters begins to look like collaboration.
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The crackdown was nominally intended to target the plotters of the putsch.
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Of the 178 jihadist plotters and perpetrators, 86 were U.S.-born citizens.
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His absence apparently created what the coup plotters perceived as an opportunity.
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The danger comes not just from plotters but also from their ideas.
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Then there are plotters, people who plan everything before they start writing.
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Brunson had been detained since 2016 after being accused of helping coup plotters.
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Over 50,000 people have been jailed on charges of association with the plotters.
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They claimed Osmayev and other plotters were linked to a Chechen rebel warlord.
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But he ruled out any link between the suspected plotters and the insurgency.
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The administration decided not to help the plotters, and the coup plans stalled.
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In Ankara, closed-door hearings were held for some of the accused plotters.
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"Our nation hunted coup plotters instead of Pokemons last night," one journalist tweeted.
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Some of the plotters had brutally shot demonstrators and comrades who opposed them.
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Ongoing investigations have not shown that any Saudi money flowed to the plotters.
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The chief of the military General Staff, Hulusi Akar, who was held hostage by the plotters on the night of July 15, condemned the plotters on Sunday as "cowards in uniform" who had greatly harmed the nation and the army.
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Coalition airstrikes have successfully targeted five top ISIS external plotters within the last month.
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He has accused Western nations of siding with coup plotters and of harbouring terrorists.
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During the coup attempt, Erdogan said Akar had been held hostage by the plotters.
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The plotters were intent on committing suicide during the attacks on the passenger jets.
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Among the dead were 104 coup plotters killed, and 2,839 military members were detained.
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Erdogan accuses Germany of harboring plotters behind last year's bloody coup attempt against Erdogan.
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HUD secretary Ben Carson blames "neo-Marxist" plotters for subverting the traditional heterosexual family.
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In the old days, we might have had a room filled with pen plotters.
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A helicopter allegedly stolen by coup plotters was shot down by an F-16.
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The suspected coup plotters stormed the state radio and television headquarters around 4 a.m.
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Coups are usually driven not solely by individual plotters, but also by structural factors.
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"The U.S. general stands on the coup plotters' side with his words," he said.
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He has accused Western nations of siding with the coup plotters and harboring terrorists.
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Government officials have publicly said that capital punishment might be reintroduced for coup plotters.
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American officials eventually decided not to help the plotters, and the coup plans stalled.
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But Mr. Nemtsov's supporters doubt that the authorities will bring the plotters to justice.
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As reports of violence against coup plotters spread, European leaders were also getting increasing jittery.
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Erdogan has just suffered an attempted coup in which the plotters tried to kill him.
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"They have pointed the people's guns against the people," he said of the coup plotters.
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Along with all of Turkey's mainstream media, CNN Turk had sided against the coup plotters.
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Plotters appear to have honed their craft, scoring a nearly 20143% success rate after 2003.
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First, there will be a major crackdown on the coup plotters and the Gulenist movement.
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The attempt, and the government's response, ended with dozens killed and the plotters in jail.
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The would-be coup plotters did not emerge with "any action items," Mr. Ryan said.
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The plotters used helicopters, tanks and air force jets to bomb institutions, including the Parliament.
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The Socialist Party blasts protesters as dangerous coup-plotters and held a separate march on Wednesday.
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He phoned Erdogan on Tuesday as the Turkish government began a crackdown on suspected coup plotters.
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Speaking to state-run broadcaster TRT in Brussels, Cavusoglu said all the soldiers were coup plotters.
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Terrorist recruiters or virtual plotters 28500,6900 miles away continue to inspire our citizens to commit attacks.
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Dems cannot make a deal with coup plotters and expect anything good to come of it.
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Perhaps most importantly, the coup plotters did a very poor job of getting their message out.
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Maduro blames an "economic war" waged by U.S.-backed coup plotters seeking to bring him down.
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The government blames the crisis on opposition coup-plotters, backed, it says, by the U.S. government.
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Others were low-level militants; some were suspected terrorist leaders, including accused plotters of the Sept.
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According to statements from some of the officers involved, the plotters asked Akar to join them.
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He said that figure included 47 civilians, 41 police officers, two soldiers and 104 alleged coup plotters.
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U.S. authorities have focused in recent years on investigating possible Islamic State-inspired plotters across the country.
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The countries say rapid withdrawal of the plotters by fast boats indicated understanding of the geographic area.
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The North Carolina evangelical pastor was detained two years ago after being accused of helping coup plotters.
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Some plotters point out that they are well prepared for the conference, with lots of sensible delegates.
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A crackdown on suspected plotters has led to the arrests of tens of thousands of Turkish citizens.
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And he struck a harsh tone when referring to the alleged plotters who have yet been sentenced.
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ISIS operatives in Syria have provided virtual direction to plotters in the UK through online encryption apps.
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The plotters had struck in classic fashion, while the president was away by the seaside on holiday.
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He not only defeated the coup plotters, but also arrested tens of thousands of Gulen supporters afterward.
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The prime minister's officer said at least 161 civilians and at least 20033 coup plotters were killed.
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The coup plotters waged airstrikes on the Parliament building, shut down bridges and seized top military commanders.
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Semih Terzi, who was one of the most prominent plotters and was killed during the coup attempt.
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Brussels was the hub of the plotters who carried out the meticulously coordinated Paris attacks on Nov.
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When he tried to fly to Iran, they abruptly halted the investigation and had the plotters arrested.
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René Schneider, and the agency later sent money to help some of the plotters flee the country.
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Postwar France was politically unstable; the city churned with Communists, fellow travelers, Gaullist plotters and foreign spies.
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The trial for men charged as plotters of the 9/11 attacks was set Friday for Jan.
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The police now say the blast was the result of plotters trying to make a truck bomb.
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Some mystery writers are plotters; they outline, they plan, they know exactly where their stories are going.
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Yet the coup plotters appear to have overestimated the support they would find within the military ranks.
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Of the prisoners left at Guantanamo, 10 face charges in military commissions, including alleged plotters of the Sept.
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MORE: The real tragedy of Turkey's coup attempt Who were the coup plotters and why didn't it work?
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By Monday, the death toll was at 232, including 24 "coup plotters," according to Prime Minister Binali Yildirim.
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In the midst of this bloody year, plotters tried to overthrow the president, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, in July.
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Today they risk being thrown behind bars, indicted as coup plotters and possibly attacked by pro-government goons.
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"I will never be held hostage by conspiracy plotters, anarchists, racists who hijack a social movement," he wrote.
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Ortega has denied any responsibility for the killings and accuses those seeking his exit of being coup plotters.
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Lesser sentences were given to another three people for helping the plotters or failing to report a crime.
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In an apartment the London plotters had rented to serve as their bomb factory, they mixed the chemicals.
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"Some countries have engaged in behaviour that protects coup plotters and knows no laws or justice," he said.
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Broadcaster NTV reported that Turkish fighter jets brought down a helicopter used by plotters in a coup attempt.
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Though seemingly well organised at first, the plotters seemed to represent only a minority faction of military officers.
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He eventually returned to Germany and later crossed paths with one of the accused plotters of the Sept.
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"Some countries have engaged in behavior that protects coup plotters and knows no laws or justice," Erdogan said.
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"We are not criminals, madmen or coup plotters — just ordinary people who simply want to vote," he said.
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Alleged 193/219 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammad and four other accused plotters will go on trial on Jan.
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The plotters appeared to be young, low-ranking officers who did not seem to have a meticulous plan.
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Workers demolish a hotel that was allegedly the meeting point of the plotters who planned the failed coup.
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Shakespearean populists—men like the plotters in "Julius Caesar" or the crowd-pleasing tribunes in "Coriolanus"—also dehumanise opponents.
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Many Turks, including those who are no fans of Mr Erdogan, suspect the Europeans wanted the plotters to succeed.
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Aware that secessionist plotters wanted to prevent Lincoln's inauguration, army soldiers were dispatched along Pennsylvania Avenue as additional security.
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The government also announced that the death penalty might be reinstated in order to deal with the coup plotters.
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Yildirim, speaking in parliament, also said the coup plotters were not soldiers but terrorists who had targeted the parliament.
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Maduro alleges he is fighting well-financed coup plotters with links to the United States and hostile foreign media.
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Confiscated plans, Bajwa said, reveal that the plotters intended to free 100 prisoners, including Sheikh, and kill 35 others.
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General Staff head Hulusi Akar was held hostage for hours by the plotters, but refused to join their coup.
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After the civil war, Stalin watched with trepidation as European governments were overthrown by small groups of determined plotters.
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Although there have been non-lethal attacks and foiled plots in which the plotters communicated with ISIS militants abroad.
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The entire parliamentary opposition and what was left of the free media, which Mr Erdogan despises, denounced the plotters.
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The information, which is being shared with allies, could help direct battlefield operations and keep plotters from entering Europe.
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He returned to Germany and later crossed paths with one of the accused plotters of the 9/11 attacks.
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The pages are believed to contain descriptions of alleged connections between the Saudi kingdom and the 9/11 plotters.
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Another 2628 of the plotters were legal permanent residents, most of whom arrived in the United States as children.
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He went on to publicly defy the hard-line conservative plotters of an attempt to seize power in 1991.
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Our correspondent notes that these divisions also have practical security implications that the attack plotters perhaps managed to exploit.
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The coup plotters murdered 249 Turkish citizens, injured thousands more, and bombed and destroyed parts of the Turkish Parliament.
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The police chased the journalists, with some calling them "coup plotters" and threatening to confiscate cell phones and equipment.
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But nationalists and conservatives have embraced it, persuaded that Turkey faces an existential threat from plotters beholden to foreign powers.
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In 23, al-Qaeda killed more than 23 people in Saudi Arabia's capital, Riyadh, and the plotters fled to Iran.
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Maduro and other senior government officials routinely denounce opposition activists as coup-plotters, intent on bringing down socialism in Venezuela.
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Erdogan had started lashing out at Western leader last week when he claimed that they supported terrorists and coup plotters.
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Erdogan said the death toll had risen to 246 people excluding the coup plotters and that 2,185 people were wounded.
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Turkish Justice Minister Bekir Bozdag repeated the accusations in a TV interview, claiming the coup plotters were tied to Gülen.
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The Turkey plotters failed to create this perception, and now they — and Turkish democracy — may end up paying the price.
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Several explosions were reported at Parliament, and a helicopter used by the plotters was blown from the sky, officials said.
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Despite her use of image-editing software, microfilm plotters and light pens, Ms. Schwartz's work is grounded in traditional techniques.
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A former commander of the most secretive part of the prison compound told how the accused plotters of the Sept.
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He had been on the bus and his father was enraged that the coalition had said it carried military plotters.
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But by 2015, investigation records reveal, plotters began tapping the inner core of a network of Islamic State online coaches.
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Those political differences, it is becoming clearer, also have practical security implications that the attack plotters perhaps managed to exploit.
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Meanwhile, in Venezuela, the United States is pursuing a very different approach: threats, intimidation, and clandestine meetings with coup plotters.
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He did not recall the events of February 1993 — the bombing, followed by the frenzied rush to catch the plotters.
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These events are tragic for the country, tragic for the individual plotters and their families and tragic for the GOP.
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A Turkish military commander also said fighter jets had shot down a helicopter used by the coup plotters over Ankara.
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Read: Un-su Kim's "The Plotters," about a Korean assassin, is one of nine new books we recommend this week.
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President Recep Tayyip Erdogan of Turkey, for example, has spent the past year calling journalists criminals, terrorists and coup-plotters.
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"The investigations show there were another 8 to 10 people who attended meetings with the other plotters," the source said.
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Instead, the coup plotters seem to have switched to the far more secure WhatsApp by the time they launched their putsch.
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In 1964 the military plotters feared, not without reason, that Goulart was planning his own coup against congress and the governors.
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On January 3rd, the opening day of the new Congress, the plotters hastily agreed to leave the OCE alone after all.
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The central government supported the move "to punish, according to law, the main ... plotters of the illegal Occupy (movement)," Lu added.
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Alexander's research reveals the myriad roles women have played within these movements — from the plotters to the travelers to the supporters.
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After a day and night of frayed nerves, with rumours of a coup and sightings of troop movements, the plotters struck.
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Were they built by the terrorists themselves, as was the case with the London plotters, or did someone else build them?
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The coup crumbled on Saturday as supporters of President Tayyip Erdogan took to the streets in defiance of the coup plotters.
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Another of the plotters was recently photographed standing beside Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov during the latter's official trip to Serbia.
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According to the deputy chief of staff, at least 194 people, including 104 "coup-plotters", had been killed in the fighting.
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What's more, the West responded with a combination of halfhearted condemnation of the coup plotters and a wait-and-see realpolitik.
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One of the plotters of the London Bridge attack, Khuram Butt, was radicalized a few blocks to the north, in Ilford.
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Under criminal law, a defendant who has entered a criminal conspiracy can be charged based on the actions of other plotters.
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That the plotters had gone to such lengths to cover their tracks showed just how much evil there was to hide.
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Send to the fires of hell all the envious and the plotters who wish, and do, harm to Islam and Muslims!
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Indeed, it seems that the plotters staked their operation on capturing or killing Erdoğan and persuading General Akar to join them.
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Her mother and sister admitted helping her, making the case Britain's first involving an all-female cell of Islamic state-inspired plotters.
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Ankara is angry with Berlin for giving asylum to alleged coup plotters, while German authorities fret over Erdogan's influence over Germany's Turks.
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Kassim encouraged and guided plotters to launch attacks, even bringing together individuals who did not know each other to form attack cells.
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The government says it has acted justifiably against threats from militants at home and abroad, including plotters behind a failed 2016 coup.
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In a March 2006 post titled "Flashback: September 30, 2001," Reid's blog notes that the US government identified the plotters suspiciously soon.
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Maduro has intensified a crackdown on subversives and "coup plotters" in the weeks following a failed military uprising attempt on April 30.
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Iranian officials said that the bomber and other plotters were Pakistanis, and that the attack was planned and launched from Pakistani soil.
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Altan, his brother and four other journalists were sentenced this month for aiding plotters of a 2016 failed coup, charges they deny.
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The case study here was Holder's attempt to prosecute Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and other alleged 9/11 plotters at a Manhattan court.
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Turkey has been holding almost daily mass rallies since July 15 in support of democracy and the government and against the plotters.
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One of the lead plotters, who has since become a government witness, revealed that he fought alongside Russian forces in eastern Ukraine.
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Official and popular outrage, however, whipped up by new footage of the coup-plotters' violence against civilians, has focused on the cemaat.
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It is like a contract that all must sign, the plotters as well as those who are the targets of the plot.
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All this lends some justice to a remark by John McDonnell, the shadow chancellor, that the anti-Corbyn plotters were "fucking useless".
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The trio of alleged plotters were seized as they stopped their automobile at the point where the collapsible boat touched the shore.
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Big plans with multiple plotters who chat and can be monitored are easier to foil than low-tech ones by lone wolves.
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Turkish officials say their response is appropriate considering that the plotters have been accused of trying to kill or capture the president.
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By July, Ortega started claiming victory over "terrorists" and "coup-plotters" and told foreign media that the country's "normalization" was proceeding apace.
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He denied taking part and said that he was handcuffed in a room on the base by the plotters the whole night.
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In recent speeches, he has argued that those who vote against him will have by default taken the side of the plotters.
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Mr. Prayuth, who was army leader when the coup plotters struck, was welcomed by President Trump to the White House in October.
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Obama's swift decision to back Erdogan against the coup plotters comes despite his concern at the Islamist leader's growing intolerance for dissent.
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Those are the dates that government officials say the coup plotters originally intended to overthrow Mr. Erdogan before changing to July 15.
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One of Mother—amazing how merciless the camera is—made her look like a Roman matriarch, one of those poisoners and plotters.
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In this unfolding tragedy, Scaramucci is Horatio to Trump's Hamlet, scouring the shadows for plotters and whispering rumors of deceit and betrayal.
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Police say assets worth about $40 million belonging to the bombers and plotters linked to the April 21 attacks have been frozen.
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He did not elaborate on what type of rockets the plotters planned to use or what evidence for the plan had been uncovered.
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Mr Erdogan and his prime minister, Binali Yildirim, have threatened opponents of the new constitution by comparing them to terrorists and coup plotters.
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Most continents' success rates also hover around 50 percent, except for Europe, where only 33.3 percent have worked out for the coup plotters.
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"My august nation gave the best answer to the coup plotters," he said Sunday and told his followers to keep up the pressure.
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Akin Ozturk -- a highly decorated Four Star General who commanded a NATO forces in Afghanistan -- has been accused of leading the coup plotters.
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Despite his frustration with the plotters of the failed coup, he said he's hopeful Turkish people can move on after Friday's bloody night.
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The plotters struck after weeks of turmoil and intrigue over who will succeed Mr Mugabe, a president whose health and faculties are failing.
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Last month, Turkey sentenced six other journalists, including two prominent brothers, to life in jail for aiding plotters of the 2016 failed coup.
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With the government's blessing, prosecutors linked to the movement staged a series of show trials to purge the army of suspected coup plotters.
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The first thing to understand about Turkey's coup, according to Singh, is that the coup plotters didn't put up scorched-earth military resistance.
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By the afternoon, after a standoff in Ankara, the capital, the government had wrested back an army headquarters building held by coup plotters.
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A helicopter landed at the offices of CNN Turk, and soldiers, apparently coup plotters, tried to seize the station during a live broadcast.
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Woody: What were the consequences for the Pinochet regime and its plotters, and what effects did the attack have on Chile more broadly?
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He certainly wasn't debonair — he was a violent man, one the other plotters seem to have been quite scared of in many ways.
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Of the 59 prisoners remaining at Guantanamo before the latest transfer, 10 face charges in military commissions, including alleged plotters of the Sept.
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The European Union's intelligence agency has since stated that it believes the coup plotters included various secularists and opportunists as well as Gulenists.
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The coup plotters raided the state broadcaster, T.R.T., early in the evening but did nothing about most of the country's private television channels.
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And while the plotters tried to seize Mr. Erdogan, few attempts seem to have been made to round up other important government figures.
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It has also insisted on the need for wide-ranging investigations and purges to remove coup plotters and Gulen supporters from government institutions.
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As in "Sin City" or "A Confederacy of Dunces," plot is pointedly unimportant to "The Plotters," mostly a medium for satire and repulsion.
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If the transfers go according to plan, 41 or 42 prisoners would be left at Guantanamo, including 10 alleged plotters of the Sept.
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"There were also two people among that group of plotters who are experts in bombs and those two are dead now," Wickramaratne added.
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At the news conference, General Bajwa presented a handmade map of the prison, which he said the plotters had drawn with the constable's help.
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He moved to reclaim the fractured Philly family from John Stanfa, one of the plotters in the execution of [his old boss] Angela Bruno.
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It seems unlikely that Fernando's resignation will end the questions and recriminations over why authorities failed to act more effectively to stop the plotters.
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Nazli Ilicak was sentenced to life in prison along with five other journalists last February for aiding plotters of a 2016 failed coup attempt.
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Ultimately the U.S. "did not provide material support, and the plans unraveled," per the Times, and dozens of the coup plotters have been arrested.
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The president argued that exposing Stellarwind, which was meant to intercept the communications of suspected foreign plotters, would invite another 9/11-style attack.
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Clashes occurred Sunday between security forces and coup plotters resisting arrest nearly 200 miles south of Ankara at Konya Airbase, a source told CNN.
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In September he claimed, without evidence, that the plotters of a failed bombing on the Tube had been "in the sights of Scotland Yard".
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The parliamentary system, which the coup plotters designed to keep a lid on popular demands, tends to produce short-lived and unstable coalition governments.
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The plotters intended to place an improvised explosive device on board an Etihad Airways flight -- many of which can carry more than 500 people.
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She cannot exclude that some of the plotters were Gulenists, she adds, but accuses Mr Erdogan of using the coup to mount a witchhunt.
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According to Singh, the failure of Turkey's coup likely wasn't determined by the coup plotters' military strength, or even their support inside the military.
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In the wake of July's failed military coup, many Turks have accused American soldiers on the Incirlik air base of being among the plotters.
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A device meant to detonate inside a theater in Alexandria blew up in the pocket of one of the plotters, setting his clothes afire.
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The alleged plotters also referenced an ISIS attack on a concert venue in Paris in 2015 that killed 130 people and wounded hundreds more.
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Yildirim said 232 people were killed in Friday night's violence, 208 of them civilians, police and loyalist soldiers, and a further 24 coup plotters.
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It is also far from clear that ISIS' communication online with plotters played a key role in driving the threat inside the United States.
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Still, the plotters deployed large numbers of troops and heavy armour in both Istanbul and in Ankara, where their aircraft bombed the national parliament.
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Seven of the plotters, anticipating the dictator's route, split up in three cars, which they stationed along the coastal road leading to San Cristóbal.
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On Friday night, as bombs dropped by the coup plotters fell on the Parliament building, members of the assembly gathered defiantly in its chamber.
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And trying to assert control was President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, targeting plotters in the previous night's coup and other perceived enemies of the state.
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Officials said the main plotters were from the gendarmerie, a military-style police force; the air force; and some elements of the land forces.
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They were "political careerist plotters", whose cases showed that officials' political problems were no less a threat to the party than corruption, Chen wrote.
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A few days after the failed coup, his name appeared on a list of journalists suspected of supporting the plotters—a claim he denies.
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The recordings also suggest that the plotters aimed to please one man: Recep Tayyip Erdogan, then the prime minister of Turkey, now the president.
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Earlier Monday, an Ethiopian government spokesman said that security forces were hunting General Asamnew but that a number of other plotters had been arrested.
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Some differentiate between young men who might be caught browsing terrorist material online and hardened plotters, who have spent years immersed in extremist ideology.
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By Saturday afternoon, CNN Turk reported that security forces had completed an operation against coup plotters at the headquarters of the military general staff.
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Mr. Tsipras said he could not interfere with the courts deciding their fates, but added that Greece did not want to harbor coup plotters.
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Since then, Mr. Erdogan's crackdown has rounded up not only the suspected coup plotters, but also purged thousands of political opponents, academics and journalists.
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The discovery of the explosives raises the possibility that a string of bomb attacks was being planned in the city involving a group of plotters.
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The treasure trove of information that investigators gained from the interrogations and the data extracted from the phones may help authorities better identify future plotters.
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But the Turkish plotters also failed to seize key government buildings and allowed Erdogan to address the nation and coordinate with still-loyal military units.
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As the coup unfolded, Erdogan said the plotters had tried to attack him in Marmaris, bombing places where he had been shortly after he left.
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"Tremendous progress has been made toward apprehending those plotters but I don't think the story is over yet," Ambassador Alaina Teplitz said in an interview.
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One poll found that 84% of Turks believe that the coup-plotters received help from abroad; more than 70% suspect America of having a hand.
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The number of Islamic State prosecutions over all has slowed since January; officials believe a spate of prosecutions late last year may have deterred plotters.
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" Saying the comments amounted to standing beside the coup plotters, Mr. Erdogan also referred to Mr. Gulen, saying: "The coup plotter is in your country.
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The Paris plotters slipped easily in and out of Europe, then hatched their plans in one country, Belgium, before carrying them out in another, France.
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On the Bosphorus Bridge, where coup plotters had parked tanks to stop cars crossing to Europe from Asia, pro-government protesters allegedly beheaded a soldier.
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The two countries also halted issuing visas for months after locally hired U.S. consular staff were detained on suspicion of links to alleged coup plotters.
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That would mean the return of border controls and passport checks so that Belgium-based plotters can no longer gain easy access to foreign cities.
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To disrupt a terrorist plot, law enforcement and intelligence agencies need intelligence: an informer with knowledge of the plot, intercepted communications between the plotters, etc.
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Establishing a clandestine channel with coup plotters in Venezuela was a big gamble for Washington, given its long history of covert intervention across Latin America.
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American officials did not provide material support, and the plans unraveled after a recent crackdown that led to the arrest of dozens of the plotters.
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The details that were emerging about the victims reinforced what Mr. McCants and others described as the shock value craved by plotters of such attacks.
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According to Muscat's account, after getting the contract to kill Daphne, the plotters first decided to shoot her and bought a rifle with telescopic sights.
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His allies have implied that the march put Mr. Kilicdaroglu and his colleagues in an alliance with terrorists and the plotters of last summer's coup.
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They have been in prison for months with no indictment in sight, and we don't know if they have any links with the coup plotters.
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"Nearly a year ago, the Turkish people - brave men and women - stood up against coup plotters and defended their democracy," Tillerson said, according to Reuters.
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"I fear this is the future of ISIS," said Bridget Moreng, an analyst whose research on the virtual plotters was recently published in Foreign Affairs.
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The FBI moved quickly to arrest many of the Trade Center plotters and they were tried and convicted in federal court and given lengthy sentences.
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Elizabeth promptly dumps cold water on the plotters, telling Mountbatten that her role is to protect the country's unwritten constitution, the prime minister, and democracy.
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In focus are whether the plotters had any foreign help, the sources of funding and if the bombers had any credible link to Islamic State.
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The city returned to its previous, standard self: a place for tourists and seekers of keyif, rather than a target for militants or coup plotters.
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Update: At least 6,000 people in Turkey have been detained in a government crackdown on alleged plotters following Friday's failed coup attempt, The Associated Press reported.
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The attempt to unseat him was short-lived: by midday, most of the coup-plotters had been rounded up and the government was back in control.
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In a sign of how little apparent public support the coup plotters have, even long-standing critics of the Erdogan government have publicly condemned the plot.
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Maduro casts the arrests as a legitimate reaction to "armed insurrection" by violent coup-plotters following a U.S. agenda to take control of Venezuela's oil wealth.
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I can't remember the last time I saw the nightly news cover the ongoing pre-trial proceedings against the alleged plotters of the 9/11 attacks.
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This month, a faction of the military attempted to overthrow the government in an abortive putsch that left at least 246 people dead excluding the plotters.
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In al Qaeda's 2005 attack in London, for instance, the plotters rented an apartment to serve as their bomb factory where they mixed up the chemicals.
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The General Staff said 35 planes, including 24 fighter jets, 37 helicopters, 74 tanks and three ships had been used by the coup plotters, NTV reported.
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The main CHP opposition said the response to the coup attempt must be conducted within the rule of law and that the plotters should face trial.
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Before returning to Europe, both the Brussels bomber and the Paris plotters posed for carefully choreographed scenes, showing the atrocities they committed in Syria and Iraq.
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The coup plotters seemed stuck in the 1970s, having seized, for a time, the state broadcaster TRT, while other news channels continued coverage, opposing the coup.
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Those operations were halted when the Turkish authorities cut off electricity to Incirlik, after it emerged that the base's commander was linked to the coup plotters.
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Seventeen police officers were killed in a military helicopter attack by coup plotters on a police special forces headquarters outside Ankara, Anadolu Agency had reported earlier.
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Maduro says Lopez and Ceballos are dangerous coup plotters intent on toppling his government, and blames them for more than 40 deaths during the 2014 protests.
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The plotters would later take over CNN's Turkish affiliate while it was broadcasting live, though by about 4:30am local time, the station's broadcast had resumed.
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The plotters circumvented a security apparatus that, until last week, had helped Spain avoid attacks like the Madrid train bombings that killed 192 people in 2004.
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The fact that he participated in the committee's work without revealing he was in touch with the Ukraine plotters is at best a profound ethical breach.
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ANKARA (Reuters) - Turkish security forces have completed an operation against coup plotters at the headquarters of the military general staff, broadcaster CNN Turk reported on Saturday.
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Having in recent days labeled Trump a "Hitler" and "imperial emperor" supporting violent coup-plotters in Venezuela, Maduro took aim this time at the Republican's intellect.
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To disrupt a terrorist plot, law enforcement and intelligence agencies need, well, intelligence: an informer with knowledge of the plot, intercepted communications between the plotters, etc.
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He said the plotters had rented a house in Hyderabad and planned to breach the prison with the help of a jail constable, who has been arrested.
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The coup plotters included a former Presidential Guard commander who fled to the US, two US army veterans and a Minnesota-based businessman, all with dual citizenship.
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A source close to the government said there were gunshots around the national television station, but that the plotters appeared to be a small group of soldiers.
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The Turkish efforts to force the return of its nationals aren't limited to coup plotters, say officials and analysts who are following the standoff with growing concern.
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"A coup in a country that has never had a coup before could result in a lot of instability and protest against the coup plotters," she said.
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The discovery that plotters of November terrorist attacks in Paris had been filming the director of Belgium's nuclear research program have sharply focused attention on the issue.
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According to Mr Morgan, Mr Calil offered to betray the other plotters, promising information about the scheme to South Africa in an effort to stave off prosecution.
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As loyal security forces rounded up suspected coup plotters, the government fired several members of the judiciary board, or HSYK, the entity that selects judges and prosecutors.
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But though they succeeded in taking Ouagadougou, the capital, the coup plotters eventually had to give up when it became clear that they had no international support.
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He said it was "shameful" that some in the West seemed more concerned about the fate of the plotters than in standing with a fellow NATO member.
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There have been very few Islamist terrorist plots in the West since 9/11 in which plotters have managed to make HMTD or TATP without overseas training.
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The Turkish government has used these extraordinary powers not just to clamp down on coup plotters but also to crack down on the opposition parties and activists.
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The plotters, one of them a former baggage handler, were a motley quartet from Guyana and Trinidad, and the case led to both Iran and Al Qaeda.
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His father, M. Ameez, who lives in Aluthgama, a town south of Colombo, denied that Aadhil was involved with the plotters and said such "allegations are lies".
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A video clip of three of the coup plotters at the radio station showed that two were armed, and each wore the military fatigues of junior officers.
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Prosecutors believe Mr. Assad's real job in Montenegro was to help coup plotters flee the country after assassinating the country's prime minister, according to senior Montenegrin officials.
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Pictures released in the aftermath of the coup showed some suspected coup plotters - including high-ranking military officers - stripped to their underpants, handcuffed and their faces bruised.
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But none of the most senior generals of the Turkish armed forces could be persuaded to join, which may have left the plotters without a military leader.
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The prosecution at the time said the plotters, including Khan, had discussed attacking the London Stock Exchange as well as pubs in the English city of Stoke.
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Those suspecting a false flag operation have suggested that the plotters had two chances to take out Erdogan, and failed to do so both times — once, where the plotters launched an assault on the president's hotel, only minutes after he had already escaped; and a second time, when two F-16 jets piloted by pro-coup officers got a chance to shoot down the president's plane, but did not fire.
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After a failed coup attempt against Erdoğan in the summer of 2016, the Turkish government alleged that some of the plotters had flown aircraft out of the base.
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It now appears that the military rank and file has rallied behind the public against the latest group of coup plotters, who had threatened to undermine impending elections.
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"Those who we imagined to be friends are standing by the coup plotters and by the terrorists," Erdogan had said in a televised speech at his presidential palace.
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In one high-profile case last month, a court sentenced six journalists to life in jail for aiding plotters of the attempted coup, charges the journalists have denied.
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More than 125,000 people accused of links to the plotters, from soldiers and judges to journalists and doctors, have been dismissed or detained over the past four months.
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Colvin said the plotters had been intending to use an "improvised device" to bring down a plane, although he wouldn't elaborate on what type of device it was.
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They see European leaders as quick to condemn widescale purges of suspected plotters, but reluctant to accept the gravity of the putsch and the threat to the state.
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Prime Minister Binali Yildirim called the coup illegal and, in consultation with President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, ordered the police and other security forces to stop the coup plotters.
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They say that some of the coup plotters confessed to being members of the Gulenist cult and acting on its orders, and that decoded messages show their ties.
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A list with the names of the 58 executed plotters was given to a hospital to inform their families but their bodies were not returned, the residents said.
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The plotters seized control of the national radio station early on Monday morning and broadcast a message saying that President Ali Bongo was no longer fit for office.
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Still, the Venezuelan plotters could view the meetings as tacit approval of their plans, argued Peter Kornbluh, a historian at the National Security Archive at George Washington University.
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The main request of the military plotters was encrypted radios, which they planned to use to communicate among themselves in order to capture Mr. Maduro and his lieutenants.
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"The solution is not to bury heads in the sand," added Mr. Shapps, who claimed to have support from around 30 fellow plotters, including five former cabinet ministers.
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Led by Robert Catesby, the small group of plotters — including Fawkes — met for the first time in 1604 at an inn in London called the Duck and Drake.
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Those attacks were plotted by the Saudi-born leader of Al Qaeda at the time, Osama bin Laden, and at least 15 of the plotters were Saudi citizens.
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ANKARA (Reuters) - Turkish security forces clashed with coup plotters resisting arrest at Istanbul's second airport, and at an air base in central Turkey, an official said on Sunday.
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Trump plans to turn the trial into a campaign narrative about defeating "Deep State" plotters, whom he accuses of trying to destroy his presidency and rob 2016 voters.
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At one stage military commanders were held hostage by the plotters and by Saturday evening — 24 hours after the coup was launched — some operations against rebels were continuing.
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Conservatives have their own versions of a mythology portraying opponents as secretive plotters, focusing on such supposed puppet masters as George Soros, Saul Alinsky, and Frances Fox Piven.
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She added that this could mean changing human-rights laws to restrict the movements of suspects and ease their deportation (two of the London Bridge plotters were foreign nationals).
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It has included shutting down social media channels, including Facebook and Twitter, and taking over some 496 companies, some with publicly held units, in the hunt for coup plotters.
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It has included shutting down social media channels including Facebook and Twitter and taking over some 2140 companies, some with publicly-held units, in the hunt for coup plotters.
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"The police headquarters is missing its front and back sides," he said, referring to one of the buildings bombed by the coup plotters during the events of July 15.
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Journalists at mainstream TV channels admit that they have to steer clear of provocative subjects, such as claims that the alleged coup plotters were tortured, which the government denies.
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General Akar has said that during the coup attempt, plotters drugged him and pointed a gun at his head as they tried to persuade him to join their efforts.
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Testimony and evidence obtained from coup plotters point to Fethullah Gulen as the leader of the coup attempt, which was planned and staged by his followers within the army.
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And the plotters usually establish tight control over the media and the flow of public information, quashing any broadcasts that would undermine the sense of inevitable and unchallenged success.
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Hulusi Akar, who was briefly taken hostage by the plotters on the night of the coup, also said the armed forces would continue to perform their duties with determination.
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President Recep Tayyip Erdogan of Turkey has accused the West of supporting the plotters of the failed coup last month, and used it as a pretext for his crackdown.
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GUANTÁNAMO BAY, Cuba — In the months after their arrival at Guantánamo in 22007 from years in C.I.A. detention, Khalid Shaikh Mohammed and the other accused plotters of the Sept.
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The former military officer said the coup plotters appeared to have launched their attempt prematurely because they realized they were under surveillance, something corroborated by other officials in Ankara.
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"Bluff or true, this tone sounds more like coup plotters talking to the leader they want to depose, rather than an open letter with dissenting political views," he said.
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It is also to address the broader, ideological environment in which radicalization takes place, and the international context that allows plotters to seek training, contacts and inspiration from abroad.
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Colonel Duzenli is accused in the indictment of organizing meetings to plan the coup and setting up a contact group of plotters on the encrypted telephone messaging service WhatsApp.
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The plotters included White House officials and the two men charged with safeguarding the secretary's public image — who instead worked to undercut it, according to loyalists of the secretary.
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Mr. Erdogan has ordered the arrests of 50,000 people accused of links to the coup plotters, and organized a referendum that granted him greater powers, including over the judiciary.
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His plan to join the jihad in Pakistan were thwarted soon afterward, and police officers found terrorist propaganda in Abballa's home and those of other plotters, court documents show.
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The former military officer said the coup plotters appeared to have launched their attempt prematurely because they realised they were under surveillance, something corroborated by other officials in Ankara.
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Erdogan, whose Islamist-rooted ideology lies at odds with supporters of modern Turkey's secular principles, said the plotters had tried to attack him in the resort town of Marmaris.
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"He energetically fought against the coup plotters last year and exceptionally contributed in strengthening peace and security during and after elections," Nkurunziza said in a statement late on Monday.
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The conflict has gone on for so long, and with so much overlap among the violent players, that it is often difficult to identify the plotters of an attack.
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" — STEPHEN COLBERT "The president attacking his Justice Department, trusting Putin over his own intelligence community, calling the F.B.I. a bunch of corrupt, deep-state coup plotters is not normal.
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He used the FaceTime video application on a reporter's smartphone to broadcast a message live on CNN Turk, a private TV station which the plotters tried but failed to silence.
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Other technologies are in development, including systems that acoustically identify traps on the seafloor and mark them with "virtual buoys" on fishermen's chart plotters, eliminating the need for surface buoys.
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About 40 percent of Turkey's generals and admirals have been dismissed since the coup, in which Erdogan says 237 people excluding the plotters were killed and more than 2,100 wounded.
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Turkey purged its police after rounding up thousands of soldiers in the wake of the weekend coup attempt and there have been calls to reinstate the death penalty for plotters.
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Maduro, a 54-year-old former bus driver and foreign minister, alleges he is fighting against well-financed coup plotters with links to the United States and hostile foreign media.
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National Police Chief Badrodin Haiti told Reuters that at least five jailed militants were believed to have been in communication with the plotters in the lead-up to the attack.
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Turkey's military said on Friday it had seized power, but the prime minister said the attempted coup would be put down and Erdogan himself later vowed to punish the plotters.
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Academics were banned from travelling abroad on Wednesday in what a Turkish official said was a temporary measure to prevent the risk of alleged coup plotters at universities from fleeing.
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He said Amer Khayat had arrived in Lebanon on July 15, the day Australian police have said the plotters tried to smuggle a bomb onto an Etihad flight from Sydney.
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The coup plotters had detailed plans on who would take ministerial posts and who would act as the head of martial law, Yildirim said in comments after a cabinet meeting.
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Skeptics can point to many horror stories about American military equipment rotting in storage depots or being misused and U.S.-trained officers becoming dictators, coup plotters and human rights abusers.
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Led by 21-year-old Joseph Harmatz, a survivor of the Vilnius ghetto in Lithuania, the plotters sickened more than 2,200 German prisoners, inducing vomiting and other symptoms of cholera.
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An estimated 265 people, including "coup plotters" and civilians, were reported killed during the insurrection, which began Friday night when a faction of the army seized two bridges in Istanbul.
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Turkey closed the base, in part, because they believed a tanker plane from there had been used to refuel Turkish fighter jets that carried out strikes for the coup plotters.
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The government said it had also arrested two other plotters overseas, including Talha Haroon, a 19-year-old American citizen living in Pakistan, and Russell Salic, 37, of the Philippines.
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Mr. Trivett announced that the samples were not from the C.I.A. black sites where the five alleged plotters were held before they were brought to Guantánamo for trial in 2006.
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The authorities linked both assaults to an explosion in Alcanar earlier in the week — a mistake by the plotters, they believe, who had intended to make a powerful truck bomb.
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Taking a page out of the book used by Trump and authoritarians everywhere, state journalists and officials regularly called critical journalists and reporters covering protests "traitors" and "golpistas" (coup-plotters).
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GUANTÁNAMO BAY, Cuba — A military judge responded on Wednesday to a defense lawyer's request to be released on health grounds from the case of the accused plotters of the Sept.
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The indictment against the coup plotters suggests that Turkish intelligence officials were warned about the insurrection at least six hours before it began on the evening of Friday, July 15.
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"It was outside the chain of command which was the biggest handicap for the coup plotters," said Sinan Ulgen, a visiting scholar at Carnegie Europe and a former Turkish diplomat.
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It would be hard to accuse THE PLOTTERS (Doubleday, $25.95), a raucous extravaganza of assassins and lunatics by the lauded Korean writer Un-Su Kim, of conforming to any template.
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His indictment, interviews with his lawyer, and three trial sessions attended by Reuters show the accusations against Brunson center around support for separatist Kurds and connections with alleged coup plotters.
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"It was outside the chain of command, which was the biggest handicap for the coup plotters," said Sinan Ulgen, a visiting scholar at Carnegie Europe and a former Turkish diplomat.
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Two other U.S. officials, also speaking on condition of anonymity, said communications between the plotters in Sydney and members of Islamic State in Syria were intercepted by a foreign intelligence service.
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Senanayake told Reuters on Friday that investigators had established that the plotters had links to Islamic State, but said the authorities were still trying to establish how deep those contacts were.
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In this case, said Spanish police, it is believed that after Es Satty and two other plotters died in the explosion, the rest of the group shifted to the vehicular attacks.
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More than 200 people were killed in the coup attempt, and Turkey has since purged tens of thousands of Turks from public sector jobs for supposed sympathies with the coup plotters.
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Gabon foiled an attempted military coup, arresting several plotters just hours after they took over state radio in a bid to end 50 years of rule by President Ali Bongo's family.
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ISTANBUL (Reuters) - Turkey's decision to ban academics from traveling abroad is a temporary measure prompted by the flight risk of alleged coup plotters in universities, a government official said on Wednesday.
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The plotters are among 97 suspects, allegedly tied to three terror groups, that the military arrested over the last year and a half in a crackdown against militants, Pakistani Maj. Gen.
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Zeid told Reuters he had no sympathy with coup plotters who sought to topple the democratically elected Turkish government on July 15, but voiced alarm at the scale of the crackdown.
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The government of Nicolas Maduro blames private businesses for sabotaging the economy with price speculation and routinely denounces opposition activists as coup-plotters, intent on bringing down socialism in the country.
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The Turkish lira weakened 2111.00 percent as a crackdown on suspected coup-plotters continues, with arrest warrants issued for dozens at the telecoms and capital markets watchdogs, according to CNN Turk.
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President Recep Tayyip Erdogan of Turkey has accused the West of supporting the plotters of the failed coup last month, and used the coup attempt as a pretext for his crackdown.
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Last week Ortega accused bishops of being in league with coup-plotters and allowing weapons to be stockpiled in churches — without offering any evidence — and said they were "disqualified" as mediators.
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The intelligence agency was still working with the armed forces, the police and the government against the coup plotters in ongoing operations in Istanbul and Ankara in particular, the source said.
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This kind of open strategizing is a big no-no in the Bachelor world, and when Sudick brought it up on camera, she immediately threw the alleged plotters' credibility into question.
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Just a week after the coup, Amnesty International published a report containing evidence it says proves the torture and rape of suspected coup plotters in detention—claims the state has denied.
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Joseph L. Votel, the head of the United States Central Command, made similar comments last week, Turkish officials reacted with alarm, saying the comments amounted to sympathy for the coup plotters.
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The broad post-coup crackdown and calls to reinstate the death penalty for plotters drew concern from Western allies who said Ankara must uphold the rule of law in the country.
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The aim of the plotters was to undermine Islamic State's defense of Mosul in the upcoming fight, expected to be the biggest battle in Iraq since the 2003 U.S.-led invasion.
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It was the last in a series of unheeded alerts, including an April 4 warning and an April 11 intelligence memo that warned of attacks on churches and named the plotters.
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He was supposed to use surveillance equipment smuggled into Montenegro from neighboring Bosnia and from Albania to help the plotters avoid the police as they escaped across the border to Serbia.
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The government of President Recep Tayyip Erdogan says the purge is necessary to round up the coup plotters, but critics call the coup attempt a smoke screen to target legitimate opposition.
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Demonizing any opposition as directly or indirectly in cahoots with the plotters of the coup has been Mr. Erdogan's preferred method of eradicating or intimidating critics and mobilizing his conservative base.
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An article on Tuesday about testimony at Guantánamo Bay regarding the C.I.A.'s use of torture misstated the scheduled start date for the trial of the accused plotters of the Sept.
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When the Hyderabad plotters were arrested last summer, they could not so much as confirm the nationalities of their interlocutors in the Islamic State, let alone describe what they looked like.
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Since 9/11, three foreign terrorist organizations have mounted serious plots to attack the United States, and all the plotters flew into the country from South Asia and the Middle East.
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He said efforts were under way to apprehend the coup plotters, who he said attempted to oust Ambachew Mekonnen, the regional government head in Amhara, north of the capital Addis Ababa.
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Erdogan accused the coup plotters of trying to kill him and launched a purge of the armed forces, which last used force to stage a successful coup more than 30 years ago.
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Standing atop a bus in Istanbul on Tuesday, Erdogan claimed the opposition's mayoral candidate Ekrem Imamoglu aligned with coup plotters, without presenting evidence, and later warned of unspecified actors targeting Turkey's independence.
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Two weeks after 257 people were killed by Islamist militants in hotels and churches across the country, police were hunting plotters on the loose as fears grew of ethnic clashes targeting Muslims.
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In a sign of how little apparent public support the coup plotters had, even long-standing Erdogan critics condemned the plot, and all three main opposition parties in Parliament denounced the plot.
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"If you want this to be discussed around (the) table, you will return the coup plotters," Erdogan said, adding he had raised the issue during an EU summit in Bulgaria in March.
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Turkey has been angered by the Western response, viewing Europe as more concerned about the rights of the plotters than the events themselves and the United States as reluctant to extradite Gulen.
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A state of emergency imposed in July to root out coup plotters from the security and civil services has allowed the government to rule by decree, heightening opposition concern about growing authoritarianism.
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Those sentenced were involved with plotters of the coup and had flown unsuspecting military academy trainees to a military headquarters to confront civilians opposing the attempted putsch, Anadolu said, citing the indictment.
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Some opposition leaders and activists have also been jailed on grounds of seeking to stoke violence against the unpopular government of leftist President Nicolas Maduro, who says they are masked coup plotters.
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ISTANBUL (Reuters) - Criticism from other nations about Turkey's treatment of suspected coup plotters amounts to support for the failed attempt to topple the government, Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu said on Monday.
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American officials and a former Venezuelan military commander who participated in the talks told The New York Times that a covert channel was set up between Trump administration officials and coup plotters.
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But a military regime, like the kind a group of coup-plotters tried to bring about on Friday night, would have been not only illegitimate but also far more repressive and bloody.
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Russia's state-owned Rossiyskaya Gazeta newspaper reported that the alleged plotters were planning to blow up the Simferopol-Yalta highway that runs from the regional capital to resorts on the Black Sea.
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ISTANBUL (Reuters) - The Turkish government's work against the plotters of an attempted coup is not over, and it will swiftly carry out a "cleansing operation", Prime Minister Binali Yildirim said on Sunday.
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"In recent weeks, runaway coup plotters have been trying to leave Turkey via routes traditionally used by the PKK to smuggle militants and weapons in and out of the country," he said.
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Turkish officials have been incensed by the concerns expressed by Washington and European capitals about Ankara's subsequent crackdown on suspected plotters, but what they perceive as indifference to the coup attempt itself.
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Legislation passed after 9/11 enabled plotters to be locked up for 15 years or more – long enough, so the thinking went, for them to return to society mellowed by middle age.
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A polarizing figure whose Islamist-rooted ideology lies at odds with supporters of modern Turkey's secular principles, Erdogan said the plotters had tried to attack him in the resort town of Marmaris.
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Maybe you prefer to read thrillers, like JoAnn Chaney's "As Long as We Both Shall Live," about deadly tensions in a marriage, or Un-Su Kim's "The Plotters," about a Korean assassin.
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Erdogan said as the coup unfolded that the plotters had tried to attack him in the resort town of Marmaris and had bombed places he had been at shortly after he left.
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While WhatsApp encryption is harder to crack from the outside than ByLock, the authorities have been able to access messages sent that night by getting their hands on the phones of detained plotters.
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In eight pages of testimony published by the Hurriyet newspaper, he said armed coup plotters tried to force him to join them but he refused, ordering his men to stay in their barracks.
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Mr Calil introduced the plotters to Severo Moto, an exiled priest who was being flown towards Equatorial Guinea on the night the plot was foiled—and would have become president had it succeeded.
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U.S. officials, who spoke to Reuters on condition of anonymity, said a foreign intelligence service had intercepted communications between the plotters in Sydney and members of the Islamic State militant group in Syria.
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The plotters were planning to bring the liquid explosives disguised as soft drinks in hand luggage onto the flights they had targeted, together with other innocuous-looking items that could act as triggers.
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The chief of the general staff, Hulusi Akar, who was held hostage by the coup plotters, has testified that one of his captors offered to put him on the phone with Mr Gulen.
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ISTANBUL, July 20 (Reuters) - Turkey's decision to ban academics from travelling abroad is a temporary measure prompted by the flight risk of alleged coup plotters in universities, a government official said on Wednesday.
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These factors together make it hard for intelligence agencies to detect plotting, because there are fewer points of vulnerability, such as contact with a trained bomb-maker or large numbers of fellow plotters.
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The colonel said that he had been invited to a dinner at the base, and that when he arrived his telephone was confiscated by the plotters and he was locked in a room.
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A spokesman for the United States Africa Command said that American troops in Libreville "had no involvement whatsoever" with either the coup plotters or the Gabonese military and government during the coup attempt.
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And when Erdogan called on his supporters on Saturday, as the coup unfolded, to go in the streets and stop the plotters, they did so at the urging of mosques, chanting religious slogans.
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News of the American meetings with the coup plotters has already been a propaganda boon for Mr. Maduro, providing fuel for his longstanding preposterous attempts to blame the United States for Venezuela's problems.
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The impeachment case against Mr. Trump, built largely on the testimony of officials who actually worked for him, reinforced his view that the government is full of leakers, plotters, whistle-blowers and traitors.
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The Alcanar blast, they suspect, was a mistake by the plotters, who had intended to make a powerful bomb, place it in a van and detonate it in the crowded center of Barcelona.
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Security forces fired warning shots near the Sabiha Gokcen airport on the Asian side of the city and the coup plotters did not return fire, the official said, adding arrests were being made.
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According to the police, the plotters had scouted Federation Square, a popular shopping and entertainment district, as well as the Flinders Street train station, Melbourne's busiest, and St. Paul's Cathedral, an Anglican church.
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And from Syria, investigators believe, the group's virtual plotters organized for the delivery of weapons as well as the precursor chemicals used to make explosives, directing the Indian men to hidden pickup spots.
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That comment is likely to outrage many in Turkey; the leading coup plotters were Gulen followers who ordered tanks and planes against protesters, killing 251 people, including several soldiers and 60 police officers.
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For their part, Corbyn supporters see the coup-plotters as a bunch of automaton careerist babies with expensive media training, unable to accept that their leader has huge support in the party grassroots.
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Almost all suspects and plotters involved in the attacks had either been arrested or were dead, acting police chief Chandana Wickramaratne said in an audio statement issued by the defense ministry on Monday.
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The groups found 32 cases in which accused plotters detained by the intelligence service Sebin and military intelligence group DGCIM were subjected to beatings, asphyxiation and electric shocks to obtain details of alleged plots.
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The possibility of Turkey bringing back capital punishment for the plotters has put further strain on Ankara's relationship with the EU, which Turkey seeks to join but which demands candidates forego the death penalty.
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French intelligence agencies believe he was in touch with the attacker who killed a French police couple in northwestern France in June and the two plotters who killed a priest in Normandy in July.
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Erdogan, frequently accused of interfering with social media and muzzling the press and broadcasters, used modern communications technology nimbly to get his message out to the population of nearly 80 million, outflanking the plotters.
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Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras' office responded to Turkey's comments on Thursday and Friday that coup plotters were not welcome in Greece but the country's justice system was independent and court rulings were respected.
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Federal prosecutors said in a statement, summarizing some of their findings, that the Paris attack plotters had rented an apartment in Brussels and another in the city of Charleroi at the start of September.
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The system for handling classified evidence in the Cole prosecution is the same as the one being used in the other major case at Guantánamo: the trial of the accused plotters of the Sept.
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A Turkish tanker plane from the base had apparently refueled one of the jets that the coup plotters used to conduct airstrikes as they tried to overthrow the government of President Recep Tayyip Erdogan.
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In October 28500, Brunson was arrested by the Turkish government, accused of being an American spy and terrorist who helped the plotters of the failed coup attempt against the Turkish government earlier that summer.
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The coup attempt was followed hours later by an equally dramatic public appearance by the president, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, whose whereabouts had been unknown for hours after the plotters claimed to have taken control.
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The plotters had hoped to kill Hernandez in 2014 when he was due to land in a helicopter in his home town of Gracias, 200 km (124 miles) west of Tegucigalpa, security sources said.
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The Obama administration has refused to do so, noting that Ankara has yet to present concrete evidence of links between Gülen and the coup plotters and couldn't ensure he would get a fair trial.
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Lt. Kelly Ondo Obiang, the leader of the self-declared Patriotic Movement of the Defense and Security Forces of Gabon, announced the coup but was not one of the plotters killed in the attempt.
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Some Conservative plotters say her authority is shattered beyond repair after a disastrous speech at her party's conference, which comes after she called a snap election and lost her party its majority in parliament.
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Military and civilian plotters used jets and tanks to try to seize power last July and bombed several locations, including the Parliament building, before being faced down by loyalist security forces and public demonstrations.
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Even more troubling for many Germans is that two of the plotters were army officers, raising questions about how they got into the army and how many more extremists there might be in uniform.
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The New York Times reported in September that the Trump administration held secret meetings with rebellious Venezuelan military officials to discuss overthrowing Mr. Maduro, though American officials eventually decided not to help the plotters.
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Two of the suspected plotters in Barcelona, including an imam thought by police to have helped radicalise his young conspirators, were killed on Wednesday night in what is believed to have been an accidental explosion.
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Erdogan said he has "no issues" when it comes to a free press, but if media outlets sided with and supported the plotters of the attempted coup, the justice system would need to take steps.
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The only clear link between the 12 plotters arrested and this area is an alleged attempt by one of the group to buy an AK-47 rifle online from a shop in Ciudad del Este.
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Since the coup attempt, in which rogue soldiers tried to topple President Tayyip Erdogan's government, Turkey has removed 80,000 people from public duty and arrested many of them, accusing them of sympathizing with the plotters.
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ANKARA (Reuters) - Turkish journalist Mehmet Altan was released from prison on Wednesday, one of his lawyers said, four months after he was jailed for life on charges of aiding plotters behind a failed military coup.
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S&P said political polarisation had further eroded institutional checks and balances in Turkey, a reference to the sweep through suspected coup plotters and their supporters in the judiciary, military, education sector and civil service.
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Yet officials worry that "Virtual Singapore" - available soon to state agencies before an eventual public rollout - could also aid would-be terror plotters which the government says have their sights set on the wealthy island.
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The plotters of Monday's coup attempt were arrested or killed within hours of seizing the national radio station, but the move reflected growing frustration with a government weakened by Bongo's secretive medical leave in Morocco.
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The chief of the general staff, who was held hostage by the plotters, has testified that one of his captors offered to put him on the phone to the cemaat's Pennsylvania-based leader, Fethullah Gulen.
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Yet that is not enough to turn the moral tables in Ms Rousseff's favour: many of the "coup-plotters" had been for a decade allies (and several were ministers) of the president and her predecessor.
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Erdogan blames the West for helping alleged coup plotters and their sympathizers, and he's upset Washington won't hand over an exiled religious leader in Pennsylvania he accuses of being the mastermind of the coup attempt.
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Authorities have rounded up nearly 3,000 suspected military plotters, ranging from top commanders to foot soldiers, and the same number of judges and prosecutors after forces loyal to Erdogan crushed the attempted coup on Saturday.
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"The plotters are powerful people and it's not going to be easy -- not only to have them captured, but to have them stand trial and be punished for having participated in this crime," she said.
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Mr. Erdogan, who evaded capture by the coup plotters on the night of July 15, 2016, has accused a former ally, the Islamist cleric Fethullah Gulen, of masterminding the coup from his refuge in Pennsylvania.
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General Ozturk was present at Akinci base on the night of the coup and was accused of being part of the "Peace in Homeland Council," the name the plotters used in their statement that night.
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The authorities have now jailed more than 50,000 people, suspended over 140,000 from their jobs and brought around 160 journalists to trial, often on charges related to terrorism for alleged connections to the coup plotters.
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Rex Tillerson, the U.S. secretary of state, "praised the Turkish people — brave men and women" who "stood up against coup plotters and defended their democracy," as he met his Turkish counterpart in Ankara on Sunday.
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President Nicolas Maduro, however, has a different narrative: the party, launched in a provincial sports stadium in 20133, is a well-financed puppet of U.S. policy harboring violent coup-plotters intent on bringing him down.
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Only eight of the 21625 terrorist attackers and plotters were in the United States on temporary visas, three were asylum seekers, four had been brought into the country illegally as children, and two were refugees.
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And the Trump administration held secret meetings with rebellious military officers from Venezuela over the past year to discuss their plans to overthrow Mr. Maduro, according to American officials, before deciding against aiding the plotters.
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ADDIS ABABA (Reuters) - The man accused of trying to seize control of Ethiopia's northern Amhara region was shot dead on Monday, a senior government official said, and a number of other plotters have been arrested.
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Erdogan's supporters of gathered in front of his Istanbul home to call for the plotters to face the death penalty, which Turkey outlawed in 19803 as part of its efforts to join the European Union (EU).
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President Tayyip Erdogan on Sunday told crowds of supporters, called to the streets by the government and by mosques across the country, that parliament must consider their demands to apply the death penalty for the plotters.
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"The day a coup is announced, the coup plotters first have to gain control over the means of communication and communicate clearly over the radio and TV that a coup has taken place," according to Ezrow.
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It was the second time in two weeks that the Trump administration has hit Turkey over the detention of Pastor Andrew Brunson, who was detained by Turkey in 2016 on charges of helping Turkish coup plotters.
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The longstanding chief executive, Temel Kotil, clung onto his job until October—appeasing the government with a diatribe about the coup plotters in Turkish Airlines' in-flight magazine—but he too has now been eased out.
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The report also said former Chongqing Party boss Sun Zhengcai and a group of other top officials ousted for graft, including former security tsar Zhou Yongkang, were "schemers" and "plotters" out to further their own careers.
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BERLIN (Reuters) - An ally of German Chancellor Angela Merkel on Friday urged the European Union to suspend accession talks with Turkey over a purge launched by the government against suspected plotters of last week's failed coup.
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The U.S. was asked to supply encrypted radios to a few hundred service members who had reportedly soured on Maduro, but decided to not send material support while dozens of the coup plotters were later detained.
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The accusations ranged from organizing the coup on behalf of the C.I.A. to setting up communication links for the plotters and, most implausibly, bringing a convicted murderer from California into Turkey to engage in evil deeds.
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ISTANBUL (Reuters) - The government's control has been restored across Turkey and although a few groups of coup plotters are holding out in Istanbul, they no longer pose a risk, a senior official told Reuters on Sunday.
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Decrees during a state of emergency, including purges of tens of thousands of suspected coup plotters, may threaten the wider opposition, Selahattin Demirtas, co-chairman of the Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP), also said in an interview.
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Mr. Erdogan would almost certainly have to begin a purge of the plotters and probably hunt for other challengers to his authority — extending a streak of ruthlessness that has left many of his NATO allies gasping.
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After Ortega&aposs speech calling the bishops coup plotters, Brenes said that he looked up the Spanish word, "golpista," in the dictionary, and what he found was the antithesis of what he&aposs trying to do.
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The Paris and Brussels plotters appear to have shared a bomb maker, Najim Laachraoui, 24, a Belgian of Moroccan descent, who is widely reported as having been one of the suicide bombers at the Brussels Airport.
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Editorial It took two weeks after the devastating attacks in Brussels for officials to discover that the plotters originally intended to hit Paris again or that the two attacks were carried out by a single network.
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Mr. Erdogan has been criticized by Washington for using the aftermath of a July coup attempt to introduce a sweeping crackdown against a wide array of critics, going well beyond the coup plotters and their backers.
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Turkey is holding several United States citizens, including Serkan Golge, a Turkish-American NASA scientist, who was visiting Turkey after the coup and was arrested after a disgruntled relative claimed he had links to coup plotters.
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Blending irreverent comedy, soft-focus romance and historical re-examination, Mr. Gardley also draws on Shakespeare's "Julius Caesar," whose bloody conspirators have nothing on the plotters here — and there's an array of suspects to choose from.
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WASHINGTON — An American airstrike in Yemen last week killed one of the suspected plotters of the deadly Qaeda bombing of the United States Navy destroyer Cole in 2000, President Trump and military officials confirmed on Sunday.
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Mr. Brunson has been detained in Turkey for more than a year and a half on suspicion of engaging in espionage and having links to plotters of the failed coup to topple Mr. Erdogan in 2016.
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There are about 500 principal investigations of active plotters, 3,000 further people of interest on the radar and more than 20,000 others with vague links to militancy, and resources to keep tabs on suspects are limited.
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After midnight, a news anchor for Turkish Radio and Television was forced to read a statement by the plotters, who called themselves the Peace at Home Committee, a reference to one of the country's founding ideals.
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But the coup attempt crumbled as Erdogan rushed back to Istanbul from a Mediterranean holiday and urged people to take to the streets to support his government against plotters he accused of trying to kill him.
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Wickremesinghe said the government, which has made major strides in capturing the plotters linked to the April 21 bombings that killed more than 250 people, including 42 foreigners, plans to introduce a new anti-terrorism law.
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"We will continue our operations until our citizens no longer carry any security fear," Yildirim said, referring to Turkey's three-pronged effort to root out PKK militants, coup plotters and Islamic State along its border in Syria.
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The nationalist opposition, which like the CHP has so far largely backed the government's response to the coup and has vowed to support any move to reintroduce the death penalty for plotters, also criticized the military overhaul.
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In an anniversary speech for the victory of the Nicaraguan Revolution July 19, Ortega accused the Catholic Church of working with "coup plotters" for his ouster and even of allowing weapons to be stockpiled in their churches.
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ROME (Reuters) - Pressure should be put on Turkey to make sure the rule of law is upheld there amid a fierce crackdown on suspected plotters in a failed coup, Italy's Foreign Minister Paolo Gentiloni said on Tuesday.
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"Often, by the time we react, the terrorists have already reached their audience," she wrote in an article in the Daily Telegraph, adding that end-to-end encrypted messages were hindering security services from stopping potential plotters.
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But it's hard to buy that that when one of the foremost terrorist plotters is a teen girl Chechen separatist who ends up stranded in what might as well be My So-Called Life: The Terrorist Years.
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Supporters of President Tayyip Erdogan gathered in front of his Istanbul home to call for the plotters to face the death penalty, which Turkey outlawed in 19803 as part of its efforts to join the European Union.
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On Sunday, security forces clashed with remnants of the coup plotters at Istanbul's second airport and at an air base in central Turkey, an official said, adding that arrests were made and the situation was under control.
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But the coup attempt crumbled as Erdogan rushed back to Istanbul from a Mediterranean holiday and urged people to take to the streets in support of his government against plotters he accused of trying to kill him.
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With many people of Turkish origin just back from summer holidays in Turkey, there are concerns that passions have been fuelled by media coverage "back home" which is dominated by criticism of Germans, coup plotters and Kurds.
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While Turkish officials say that followers of Mr. Gulen spearheaded the plot, it remains unclear whether the attempt was ordered by Mr. Gulen himself and how much support the plotters received from other parts of Turkish society.
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Still, Turkish officials on Thursday moved to assure the public that the state of emergency would not lead to the widespread curtailment of individual freedoms, and that the government would focus only on targeting suspected coup plotters.
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On Sunday, Turkey's nearly 85,000 mosques, in unison, blared from their loudspeakers a prayer traditionally recited for martyrs who have died in war and called for people to continue to rally against the plotters of the coup.
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Mr. Gulen is among those indicted in what has become known as the Akinci air base case, named for the base that was considered the coup plotters' headquarters and from where jets were deployed to bomb targets.
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But it's worrisome to think that President Trump and his advisers made the right call for the wrong reason — lack of confidence in the plotters to succeed in a risky operation rather than principled concern about intervention.
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Hulusi Akar, the loyalist army chief who was detained by the coup plotters, said in written testimony afterward that a general in league with the coup offered him the chance to speak to Mr. Gulen by telephone.
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One of the Islamic State's most influential recruiters and virtual plotters was known by the nom de guerre Abu Issa al-Amriki, and his Twitter profile instructed newcomers to contact him via the encrypted messaging app Telegram.
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Turkish authorities rounded up nearly 0.73,000 suspected military plotters on Saturday and ordered thousands of judges to be detained after thwarting a coup by rebels using tanks and attack helicopters to try to topple President Tayyip Erdogan.
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By Sunday evening, authorities had rounded up nearly 3,000 suspected military plotters, ranging from top commanders to foot soldiers, and the same number of judges and prosecutors after forces loyal to Erdogan crushed the attempted coup on Saturday.
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His predecessor, Abdullah Gul, also used FaceTime to shout angry defiance at the coup plotters on CNN Turk, and former Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu spoke by mobile phone with Al Jazeera television to call the takeover a failure.
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Two senior Turkish officials said that while the priority was to cleanse the whole security apparatus of coup plotters, there was no risk to national security and that replacements were already being put in place for those detained.
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Three reasons: The end of the Cold War meant not only that global powers were less likely to be actively fomenting coups, he says, but also that would-be coup plotters couldn't bank on assistance after taking power.
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ISTANBUL (Reuters) - Turkey's foreign ministry said Greece was protecting coup plotters and failing in the fight against terrorism after the Greek Supreme Court ruled on Thursday against the extradition of eight Turkish soldiers wanted over an attempted putsch.
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One official said the foreign ministry sent instructions to Turkish diplomatic missions around the world where those suspected of links to the plotters were thought to be working, ordering them back to Ankara as part of the investigations.
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Other than the testimony of the army's chief of the general staff, who says that one of the plotters offered to put him on the phone with the preacher, Turkey has not produced compelling evidence against Mr Gulen.
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Amid reports of fighting, explosions at the parliament, anti-coup street protests—and even a report of a loyalist jet shooting down a coup-plotters' helicopter—it was plain that the soldiers had failed to swiftly establish control.
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"It can be extended for three months or one month or even more ... Gulen's people have infiltrated everywhere ... we will continue to identify and arrest the plotters ... extending the state of emergency will help this process," Erdogan said.
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Despite dark conspiracy theories in Turkey linking the United States government to the military coup attempt on July 15, Turkish leaders see no signs of American complicity with the plotters, Deputy Prime Minister Numan Kurtulmus said on Tuesday.
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And when Hillary Clinton won the presidency in the fall, as she almost inevitably would if facing a sundered Republican Party, Trump and his supporters would be able to lay all the blame on the elite coup-plotters.
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Erdogan has said he wants to raise a "pious generation," and the education ministry has announced a new curriculum that includes massive amounts of religious text, and a heroic depiction of Erdogan's win against the July coup plotters.
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Since the coup attempt in mid-July, in which rogue soldiers tried to topple President Tayyip Erdogan's government, Turkey has removed 80,000 people from public duty and arrested many of them, accusing them of sympathizing with the plotters.
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The investigation and court proceedings over the ensuing two years have riveted the country, including the sensational, and head-scratching, allegation that the coup backers recruited a former C.I.A. officer to help ferry its plotters out of Montenegro.
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W. Shane Cohen, said he would rule Wednesday on the request by Mr. Harrington, who serves as the capital defense lawyer, or learned counsel, for Ramzi bin al-Shibh, one of the five accused plotters of the attacks.
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Mr. Trump's decision upended nearly a year of diplomacy that had verged on a deal with the Taliban to end the longest war in United States history, which began after the Taliban sheltered the plotters of the Sept.
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ISTANBUL/ANKARA (Reuters) - Turkish authorities rounded up nearly 22003,22014 suspected military plotters on Saturday and ordered thousands of judges detained after thwarting a coup by rebels using tanks and attack helicopters to try to topple President Tayyip Erdogan.
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Erdogan appeared to accuse the coup plotters of trying to kill him and said he would purge the armed forces, which in the past have staged a number of successful coups, although not for more than 30 years.
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NAIROBI, Kenya — The police intensified their search on Thursday for the plotters of the deadly assault on a Nairobi hotel-shopping complex, as Kenyan news services said at least 11 people had been arrested, including a suspected financier.
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The speech was attended by at least 100 men, including at least one of the plotters in the August 1998 bombings of the United States Embassies in East Africa, and one of the future hijackers in the Sept.
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Security forces also clashed with remnants of the coup plotters at Istanbul's second airport on Sunday and at an air base in central Turkey, an official said, adding that arrests had been made and the situation was under control.
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ANKARA, Oct 2 (Reuters) - A Turkish court upheld life sentences on Tuesday for prominent journalist Ahmet Altan and five others, after they were sentenced in February on charges of aiding the plotters in a failed military coup in 2016.
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Turkish authorities are continuing to crack down on suspected dissidents in the wake of Friday night's attempted military coup, when plotters commandeered jets, tanks, and helicopters in a failed bid to overthrow the government of President Recep Tayyip Erdogan.
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Washington (CNN)As authorities scramble to find ways to prevent the next mass terror plot, a new technology could change those investigations: high-speed analytics aimed at helping law enforcement find terrorist plotters -- and stop them before they attack.
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Hangzhou, China (CNN)US President Barack Obama met with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan Sunday while in China for the G20 summit, reassuring him that the US remained intent on helping bring plotters of July's coup attempt to justice.
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The alleged jailbreak plotters were among 97 people arrested over roughly the past 19 months on suspicion of having connections to the terror groups al Qaeda in the Indian Subcontinent, Lashkar-e-Jhangvi and the Pakistani Taliban, Bajwa said.
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Amnesty International, a human-rights watchdog, has cast doubt over the investigation, citing "credible evidence" that the suspected coup plotters, many of whom sported bruises and cuts while being paraded in front of the cameras, were beaten and tortured.
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At such a time, one would hope for a leader willing and eager to unify his people under the rule of law, to reaffirm democratic values and to address the grievances that motivated the plotters in the first place.
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The EU process is not formally frozen but was faltering even before Erdogan's purge of suspected plotters of a failed coup attempt in 2016 and his broadsides against Europe in 2017, comparing the Dutch and German governments to Nazis.
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Mr. Erdogan's almost singular focus on the purges was probably fueled in part by his realization that support for the coup ran deeper in the military than initially thought — and by having just barely managed to outmaneuver the plotters.
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Turkey says the soldiers are traitors and coup plotters and the issue has further strained relations between the two NATO allies who are at odds over issues ranging from jet flights over the Aegean Sea to ethnically split Cyprus.
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Stoltenberg stressed that Turkey remains a crucial NATO ally and that he condemned the July 15 putsch, but also that Ankara must respect the rule of law even it seeks to remove suspected coup plotters from its armed forces.
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Those students who paralyzed commerce when they broke off bricks from the streets and used them to build roadblocks at intersections across the country were armed and aligned with well-financed right-wing coup-plotters, including the Catholic Church.
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While Latin American leaders loudly condemned remarks by President Trump last year saying there was a "military option" to thwart Mr. Maduro, the reaction to the news that American officials had met with coup plotters was muted this time.
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Since then, President Recep Tayyip Erdogan's government has lashed out, purging tens of thousands of perceived opponents and coup plotters, firing or suspending about 130,000 government employees, and arresting more than 45,000 soldiers, police officers, teachers, politicians and journalists.
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"My mission was to take the president and bring him to Akinci air base safe and sound," Gokhan Sonmezates told the court, referring to a base outside Ankara that briefly functioned as a command center for the coup plotters.
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The Soviet plotters managed to take control for three days -- earning embarrassing recognition from then French President Francois Mitterrand -- before Russian leader Boris Yeltsin rallied public opposition to the coup, standing atop a tank in Moscow to harangue the crowd.
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Related: Canadian Cops Preached Screwed-Up Islamic Doctrine to Bomb Plotters, Court Hears "I hope that overturning these convictions will be another step in ushering in a good relationship with the Muslim community, because we're going to need it," he said.
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The Soviet plotters managed to take control for three days — earning embarrassing recognition from then French President Francois Mitterrand — before Russian leader Boris Yeltsin rallied public opposition to the coup, standing atop a tank in Moscow to harangue the crowd.
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Violence rocked the nation's capital, Ankara, and Istanbul for several hours on Friday as coup plotters tried to seize control of parliament buildings, the airport and the main bridge in Istanbul that connects Turkey's Asian side with its European side.
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LIBREVILLE (Reuters) - Gabon foiled an attempted military coup on Monday, killing two suspected plotters and capturing seven others just hours after they took over state radio in a bid to end 2300 years of rule by President Ali Bongo's family.
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Hours after a section of the Turkish military deployed soldiers and tanks on the streets across major cities in a plot to overthrow the country's president and government, thousands of people took to the streets to oppose the coup plotters.
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Just thinking about an attack like this taking place on a commercial aircraft is horrific enough -- the fact that the plotters were allegedly trying to use a chemical weapon as well suggests a significant escalation in the ambition of terrorists.
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One of his brothers, Said, was killed in Cambrils and a second, Youssef, is believed by police to have died in an explosion at a house used by the plotters at Alcanar, southwest of Barcelona, the day before the Barcelona attack.
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ANKARA (Reuters) - A prominent Turkish journalist denied on Wednesday that he sent out subliminal messages to coup plotters who tried to overthrow President Tayyip Erdogan last year, saying he had been put on trial for a crime which did not exist.
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ANKARA (Reuters) - Turkey will "double and triple check" the Treasury and central bank for coup plotters, Deputy Prime Minister Mehmet Simsek said on Thursday, referring to a widening crackdown on a religious network the government blames for a failed military coup.
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I'm glad the coup failed, especially the way it did — with many secular Turks who actually opposed Erdogan's autocratic rule, and had been abused by it, nevertheless coming out against the plotters on the principle that Turkish democracy must be upheld.
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White House spokesman Eric Schultz has also dismissed claims that Votel supported the coup plotters, and referred to U.S. President Barack Obama's comments from last week saying any reports that Washington had prior knowledge of the attempted overthrow were completely false.
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I've interviewed coup plotters, torture victims, generals, politicians they toppled & dozens whose lives were destroyed by actual coups & coup attemptsThis language is so dangerous for democracy—and it's precisely what you see before purges (which Fox News hosts are advocating) pic.twitter.
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Dozens of institutions linked to Fethullah Gulen, a cleric who is suspected of organizing the coup, have been closed down, and 50,000 passports have been canceled—a move the ruling AKP says is aimed at stopping plotters from fleeing the country.
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President Tayyip Erdogan's spokesman said the locally-recruited consulate worker had been in contact with Adil Oksuz, a theology professor dubbed the "imam of the air force" for his alleged close links to coup plotters high up in the military.
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In an address to lawmakers late on Friday Erdogan vowed to bring to justice supporters of the Gulenist "terrorist" movement and he urged Turks to continue attending rallies in major cities in support of democracy and against the coup plotters.
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Why this matters: This is the first time a trial date has been set for the alleged plotters, who have been held at the U.S. military prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, and face the death penalty in conjunction with the charges.
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Vietnam's Foreign Ministry said on Thursday that it had been helping to provide legal support to the Vietnamese suspect, Doan Thi Huong, 28, whom Malaysian officials have described as an "entertainment outlet employee" recruited, trained and equipped by North Korean plotters.
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This background is sketched in through tense conversations between James (Derek Riddell) and his adviser, Robert Cecil (Mark Gatiss, tilting his head to one side to indicate Cecil's scoliosis), alternating with clandestine meetings of the Catholic plotters led by Catesby.
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Mr. Gulen, who lives in the United States, has also been indicted in the most prominent cases aimed at the top ranks of the coup plotters, but American officials say the evidence presented against him is not enough for his extradition.
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A senior Turkish official confirmed to Reuters that Erdogan's business jet had been harassed while flying from the airport that serves Marmaris by two F-16s commandeered by the coup plotters but that he had managed to reach Istanbul safely.
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He also raised the possibility that the plotters were motivated by a perception that Erdogan would soon purge the military of supporters of Fethullah Gulen, a U.S.-based Turkish cleric with whom Erdogan was allied until the country's 2013 government corruption scandal.
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The Turkish government, which introduced a state of emergency on Wednesday after the failed coup and is considering bringing back the death penalty for the plotters, wanted the final communique of the G20, closely watched by markets, to include a paragraph on Turkey.
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ANKARA, July 21 (Reuters) - Turkey will "double and triple check" the Treasury and central bank for coup plotters, Deputy Prime Minister Mehmet Simsek said on Thursday, referring to a widening crackdown on a religious network the government blames for a failed military coup.
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Addressing his supporters early on Saturday, after returning to Istanbul as his supporters responded to his earlier call to go in the streets to stop the plotters, Erdogan described Friday's coup attempt as an "act of treason" and vowed to punish those involved.
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Which means that, if any smart plotters who knew the convention rules had tried to throw the Trump forces into a state of disorganization, then swoop in for the kill, it might have been as easy as pushing on an open door.
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By the time Erdogan landed in Istanbul Ataturk—the airport ISIS had attacked only two weeks previously—and said the coup plotters were to "pay a heavy price for their treason to Turkey" the next morning at 7 AM, that fear was everywhere.
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Ruling from the bench Monday, Hazel called Hasson's moves to buy guns and search for the location of potential targets "relevant and troubling" and said there were "very clear connections" between instructions in the online manifestos of other domestic plotters and Hasson's actions.
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ISTANBUL/ANKARA (Reuters) - Turkish special forces backed by helicopters, drones and the navy hunted a remaining group of commandos thought to have tried to capture or kill President Tayyip Erdogan during a failed coup, as a crackdown on suspected plotters widened on Tuesday.
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Antonio Imbert Barrera, a former president of the Dominican Republic and the last surviving member of a group of plotters who in 21965 assassinated Rafael Trujillo, the long-reigning dictator of that nation, died on May 19863 at his home in Santo Domingo.
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Editorial It was ironic that, as members of the military launched a coup against him on Friday, President Recep Tayyip Erdogan of Turkey resorted to guerrilla media tactics — broadcasting via the FaceTime app on his cellphone — to urge Turks to oppose the plotters.
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The Turkish military, in a statement, blamed the "Fethullah Terrorist Organization" for the coup plot, and said the plotters had held at gunpoint the military's chief of staff, demanding that he sign a document supporting the coup, which he refused to do.
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President Erdogan was able to use the FaceTime smartphone app to call a TV station, a bizarre scenario that risked the appearance of weakness but also sapped plotters' momentum and allowed him to call for the public to flood the streets in opposition.
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Part of the joy of the Watergate hearings was the parade of colorful minor witnesses like Tony Ulasewicz, the retired New York detective, with an accent lifted from 1930s movies, who delivered hush money in cash to the plotters behind the break-in.
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Turkey has been incensed by the Western response to the attempted coup, viewing Europe as more concerned about the rights of the plotters than the events themselves and the United States as reluctant to extradite the U.S.-based Turkish cleric it holds responsible.
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Residents, who spoke to Reuters from some of the few locations in the city that have phone service, said the plotters were killed by drowning and their bodies were buried in a mass grave in a wasteland on the outskirts of the city.
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Ms. Bensouda requested authorization from the judges in November 2017 to begin a formal investigation into possible war crimes and crimes against humanity that followed the American-led invasion of Afghanistan in early 2002 to rout the Al Qaeda plotters of the Sept.
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ANKARA (Reuters) - A Turkish court on Friday sentenced six journalists, including two prominent brothers, to life in jail for aiding plotters of a 2016 failed coup, state media said, a sharp turnaround after the country's highest court ordered one of the men released.
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In addition to purging more than 120,000 dissidents and alleged plotters since a failed coup last July, Mr. Erdogan and his colleagues have at times implied that "no" voters might be supporters of the coup or serve the interests of Kurdish terrorists.
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"Edwards not only advocated a pre-emptive military coup in his meeting with Helms, but also supplied intelligence on potential coup plotters that the C.I.A. could enlist," said Peter Kornbluh, head of the Chile Declassification Project at the National Security Archive in Washington.
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Erdogan and many Turks have been frustrated by U.S. and European criticism of a crackdown in the wake of the putsch, accusing the West of greater concern about the rights of the plotters than the gravity of the threat to a NATO member state.
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Some informed observers think the rising went off at half-cock: it had been planned for another day, with the support of senior officers, but was brought forward because the regime was about to arrest Mr Guaidó and the coup plotters then backed down.
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The broad crackdown and calls to reinstate the death penalty for plotters drew concern from Western allies who said Ankara must uphold the rule of law in the country, a NATO member whose cooperation in the fight against Islamic State is crucial to Washington.
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HANGZHOU, China — President Obama sought on Sunday to heal a rift with Turkey, expressing his wholehearted support for its president, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, in the wake of a failed effort to oust him and promising America's help in bringing the coup plotters to justice.
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Editorial It was ironic that, as members of the military launched a coup against him on Friday night, President Recep Tayyip Erdogan of Turkey resorted to guerrilla media tactics — broadcasting via the FaceTime app on his cellphone — to urge Turks to oppose the plotters.
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Unlike Caesar, who says his reputation and visage assure his safety against senate plotters who "ne'er look'd but on my back," McCain had no illusions about the dangers he faced as a Navy pilot in Vietnam; North Vietnamese anti-air-warfare was sophisticated and effective.
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"Go back, go back," shout two men, trying to warn protesters before a volley of shots rings out as rebel soldiers open fire outside the Akinci air base north of the capital Ankara, believed to have served as a hub for the coup plotters.
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When another pro-government newspaper asked Turks in a recent poll conducted on Twitter which part of the United States government had supported the coup plotters, the C.I.A. came in first, with 69 percent, and the White House was a distant second, with 20 percent.
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A prosecutor, Clayton Trivett, responded that defense lawyers would be allowed to question an F.B.I. linguist who compared samples of the voices of the defendants to the voices on the tapes to confirm they were Mr. Mohammed, Mr. al-Baluchi and two other alleged plotters.
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Although prosecutors laid out considerable evidence that the F.B.I. had gathered on the larger plot, F.B.I. agents generally found the outcome unsatisfying: Moussaoui was an erratic, possibly schizophrenic operative, who was marginalized by Qaeda plotters even before his arrest in Minnesota in August 2001.
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He also promised a magical moment in the Middle East when the Arab states could deliver a peace deal with the Palestinians, while he was liberating his people from the stultifying yoke of Sunni Wahhabism that had nurtured so many of the 9/11 plotters.
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In a one-day hearing that lasted late into the night, some of the Turkish citizens were charged with having links to followers of Mr. Gulen, or people who used an encrypted application on their cellphone that prosecutors say was employed by the coup plotters.
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Abdulkadir Selvi, a Hurriyet newspaper columnist close to the government, likened the constitutional court appeal plan to the case of journalist Mehmet Altan, who took a similar course of action and was released in June after being jailed on charges of aiding coup plotters.
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Erdogan and many Turks accuse the West of focusing more on the rights of the coup plotters and their suspected supporters than on the putsch itself, in which more than 230 people were killed as rogue soldiers bombed parliament and seized bridges with tanks and helicopters.
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But Erdogan's government does not constitute a democratic one, despite the fact that it was elected democratically, and since the plotters attempted to overthrow a leader who had been elected with huge mandate, they were not able to launch a coup in the name of democracy.
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" DREXEL PROFESSOR BOOTED AFTER BLAMING VEGAS MASSACRE ON 'TRUMPISM' THREATENS LEGAL ACTION Zaller wrote that Trump's plot is to take down the "so-called 'deep state'" and "drive the plotters from their dark corners" to "dismantle the state itself, leaving only the Leader, Trump himself, in command.
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A similar story is playing out in Turkey, a country that only a few years ago appeared firmly on course to join the EU. Now its president, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, vows to build a "New Turkey", bravely standing up to coup-plotters and their imaginary Western enablers.
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The cell appears to have included three sets of brothers from the small village of Ripoll, near Spain's border with France, and may have been forced into the open only by what is believed to have been an accidental explosion that killed three plotters on Wednesday night.
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Turkish officials have angrily rejected suggestions that the purges are out of proportion, accusing Western critics of failing to grasp the magnitude of the threat to the Turkish state and of being more concerned about the rights of coup plotters than the brutality of the events themselves.
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Erdogan, and many Turks, were angered by the Western response to the putsch, viewing it as more concerned about the rights of the plotters than the gravity of the events themselves, in which more than 240 people were killed as rogue soldiers commandeered fighter jets and tanks.
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Erdogan also rejected Western criticism of purges under way in Turkey's military and other state institutions which saw more than 2300,2200 people detained, removed or suspended over suspected links with the coup attempt, suggesting some in the United States were on the side of the plotters.
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Several ominous signs indicate that the Qaeda affiliate, the Shabab, is seeking to expand its lethal mayhem well beyond its home base, and attack Americans wherever it can — threats that have prompted a recent flurry of American drone strikes in Somalia to snuff out the plotters.
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The Spanish police said the attacks, the first in Barcelona and a second episode in which five men in a car hit people in the seaside resort town of Cambrils, may have been hatched in a house that the plotters were using as a bomb factory.
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Another scheme involved one of the most notorious British plotters and recruiters, Junaid Hussain, a computer hacker from Birmingham, England, who was prosecuted in 2012 and convicted on charges that he had illegally gained access to former Prime Minister Tony Blair's address book the year before.
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MANCHESTER, England — The police accelerated their hunt Wednesday for co-plotters of the Manchester concert bombing, making at least a half-dozen arrests in Britain, searching for a possible clandestine bomb factory and extending the investigation to Libya, where two of the bomber's relatives were detained.
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In a study of recent terror plots that Mr. Koehler published in 2018, he found that plotters who sought to use poisonous gas, infectious diseases or radioactive material were generally middle-aged, middle-class and fairly well educated, and espoused far-right views that were not religious.
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Mr. Erdogan has often referred to the coup plotters' defeat as a "second war of independence," and the rally on Saturday was the centerpiece of an elaborate day of pageantry that implicitly placed the president as the hero of what he implies is a liberation struggle.
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The men were one of three ISIS hit squads who were planning to carry out Paris-style attacks in Germany, according to the account of one of the plotters, who spoke to German media outlets NDR, WDR und Süddeutsche Zeitung from a Kurdish prison in northern Syria.
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After the coup attempt that failed to remove Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan last week, the government has gone on the offensive against what it says is a vast network of plotters, which it calls a "parallel state" run by exiled cleric and Erdogan enemy Fethullah Gülen.
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Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan and many Turks accuse the West of focusing more on the rights of the coup plotters and their supporters than on the coup itself, in which more than 240 people were killed after rogue soldiers bombed parliament and seized bridges with tanks and helicopters.
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But the realization that members of the group had traveled undetected to other known terror hotspots in the last two years has investigators worrying that the Barcelona plotters aren't an isolated group, but part of a Europe-wide terror ring whose membership remains under the radar of authorities.
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In testimony provided following his detention, Major General Mehmet Disli, the brother of a prominent ruling party lawmaker, strongly denied allegations that he was involved in the coup, saying he had been forced by the plotters to mediate with the chief of the military's General Staff on July 15.
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General Abdukhalim Nazarzoda, the rebellious deputy defence minister, was killed with 15 other plotters after a 12-day special operation by security forces following the attempted coup, which risked stoking fresh tension in the unstable ex-Soviet state that lived through a fierce civil war in 1992-97.
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The scale of the Islamic State's operations in Europe are still not known, but they appear to be larger and more layered than investigators at first realized; if the Paris and Brussels attacks are any model, the plotters will rely on local criminal networks in addition to committed extremists.
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The newspaper noted that the reported discussions with coup plotters could raise alarms in the region given the United States's list of interventions there, including a controversial U.S.-backed coup in Chile in 85033 and the failed Bay of Pigs invasion to overthrow Cuba's Fidel Castro in 1961.
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Kilic cited confessions by some alleged coup plotters and visits he said they paid Gulen at his Pennsylvania compound in the days leading up to the failed putsch as proof that the 79-year-old cleric was behind the coup, in which more than 240 people were killed.
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Mr. Berberoglu has become one of about 50,000 Turks arrested since the introduction of a state of emergency last summer which was initially intended to target the plotters of a failed coup in July, but which has since been used to crack down on most forms of opposition.
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Far from ending the rule of President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, it tightened his grip on the country, giving him the political room to impose a state of emergency that is still in effect; fire or suspend about 150,000 dissidents and accused coup plotters; and arrest roughly 50,000 people.
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More than four centuries later, many throughout Britain still commemorate the event — known as Bonfire Night, or Guy Fawkes Night (after one of the plotters) — though its distinctiveness is being usurped as it sometimes merges with Halloween, a relatively recent import here, or the Hindu festival of Diwali.
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"The U.S. military will continue to prioritize and relentlessly target [ISIS] leaders and external plotters in order to defend our homeland, our allies and our partners, while we continue to gather momentum in destroying [ISIS]'s parent tumor in Iraq and Syria and combat its metastases around the world," he added.
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"They're going to be focused on rooting out coup plotters, and that's going to preoccupy all the national security services; and everything else, including going after ISIL, will be secondary," said Eric S. Edelman, a former United States ambassador to Turkey and top Pentagon official under President George W. Bush.
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Donald Trump and Mike Pence's warnings Thursday that the US would place sanctions on Turkey if officials there don't order the release of an American evangelical pastor who's been detained for more than two years on charges of helping Turkish coup plotters surprised members of Congress who've been advocating for the pastor's release.
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President Tayyip Erdogan, who was in Russia on Tuesday for talks with Vladimir Putin on improving ties, has sharply criticized the United States and the EU for what he says is a lack of solidarity with Turkey over the July 15 coup and of caring more for the rights of the suspected plotters.
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BRUSSELS — The announcement on Sunday that the plotters of last month's Brussels terror attacks had originally intended to hit Paris again only heightened the concern among police and intelligence agencies that shadowy Islamic State networks could unleash new attacks at any time, not only in France and Belgium but in other European capitals.
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WASHINGTON — The United States is poring over a vast trove of new intelligence about Islamic State fighters who have flowed into Syria and Iraq and some who then returned to their home countries, information that American officials say could help fight militants on the battlefield and prevent potential plotters from slipping into Europe.
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Or will Erdogan go right back to his preferred means of staying in power: dividing Turks into his supporters and enemies of the state, weaving conspiracy theories and using the failed coup as a license for a witch hunt, not only for plotters but for anyone who has dared to cross his path?
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Meeting in Brussels, Secretary of State John Kerry and European Union foreign ministers called on Mr. Erdogan to show restraint in the wake of the failed coup, even as he continued to round up political opponents and as Turkey debated whether it should reinstate the death penalty to deal with the plotters.
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President TrumpDonald John TrumpSchiff: Bolton 'refused' to submit affidavit on Trump's involvement in Ukraine controversy Yang congratulates Romney for 'voting his conscious and character' in convicting Trump McConnell 'disappointed' by Romney impeachment vote, but 'I'm going to need his support' MORE took to the podium in the House chamber, surrounded by Democratic plotters and betrayers.
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" Yet most law enforcement officials concurred that the blast "cannot be charged to the account of alien plotters against the neutrality of the United States," The New York Times reported, "although it is admitted that the destruction of so large a quantity of allied war material must prove cheering news to Berlin and Vienna.
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And the kind of crimes I'm thinking of are the bombing in Oklahoma City — where an American terrorist blew up the government building, killing as I recall 158 Americans, including a number of children who were in the preschool program — [and] the plotters and the people who carried out the attacks on 9/11.
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Among them was a local aide of IS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, who led the plotters, according to matching accounts given by five residents, by Hisham al-Hashimi, an expert on IS affairs that advises the government in Baghdad and by colonel Ahmed al-Taie, from Mosul's Nineveh province Operation Command's military intelligence.
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"They are virtual coaches who are providing guidance and encouragement throughout the process — from radicalization to recruitment into a specific plot," said Nathaniel Barr, a terrorism analyst at Valens Global, who along with Daveed Gartenstein-Ross of the Foundation for Defense of Democracies in Washington wrote one of the first articles discussing the virtual plotters.
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In her own childhood, she had read so many books in which a house's past was actually alive in the next room: you had only to open the right door to come across the Edwardian children who'd once lived there, or the Tudor plotters, or some powdered, jaded aristocrat bent over his papers or her embroidery.
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The success that members of those networks have had in launching terrorist attacks has exposed weaknesses of European spy agencies — many of which appear overwhelmed by the Islamic State threat — and terrorism experts have been particularly alarmed by the bomb-making abilities of the plotters of the attacks in Brussels this week and in Paris in November.
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DAKAR, Senegal — The government of Gabon quickly beat back a coup attempt on Monday, killing two suspects and arresting eight others after the plotters took over the state radio station in the Central African nation and announced plans for a "national council of restoration," in a country where one family has held the presidency for almost half a century.
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In the QAnon reality, Trump only pretended to collude with Russia in order to create a pretext for the hiring of Robert Mueller, the special counsel, who is actually working with Trump to take down an inconceivably evil and powerful network of coup-plotters and child sex traffickers that includes Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama and George Soros.
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"As we continue to gather momentum in our counter-ISIL campaign, we will continue to target ISIL leaders, relentlessly pursue its external plotters, and, working with our partners on the ground, we will not rest in our efforts to destroy ISIL's parent tumor in Iraq and Syria, combat its metastases around the world, and protect our homeland," he said.
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If not for their incompetence as bomb makers, we might not remember the Columbine massacre as principally a shooting at all; the plotters had intended a spectacular explosion, courtesy of two large bombs with timers planted in the cafeteria, after which they would shoot the survivors spilling out into the parking lot before presumably dying in a hail of SWAT-team bullets themselves.
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