Al-Qaeda's Tracks?

As Turkey reels from last month's suicide bombings in Istanbul--which killed 61 and seemed to open a new front in the war on terrorism--Turkish police are homing in on several obscure Islamic militant groups, notably Turkish Hizballah, a senior police official tells TIME. Security analysts say Hizballah, not to be confused with the radical Lebanese organization that shares its name, is a loose association of some 20,000 extremists based in Bingol, an impoverished province bordering Iraq. Turkish officials say three of the four suicide bombers, and many of their accomplices, called Bingol home.

If Turkish authorities are right, Hizballah may...

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