Turkey recently requested that Iraq extradite two Turkish Islamists suspected of involvement in the 2003 bombings of two Istanbul synagogues. U.S. troops in Iraq arrested the men in January on unrelated charges, and they’re being held in Abu Ghraib prison, The New York Times reported.
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