The Insider: Daily Terrorism Report

ByABC News
November 19, 2003, 1:01 PM

Nov. 19 -- Turkish investigators have identified the remains of the two suicide bombers who carried out Saturday's deadly attacks in Istanbul. The Israeli parliament speaker says the two attackers were educated in Afghanistan and trained in Iran. Meanwhile, President Bush defends going to war in Iraq on the first full day of his state visit to Britain. Also, more on the U.S. Supreme Court and putting terror suspects on trial what constitutes an 'enemy combatant?'

THE WAR ON TERROR

TURKISH BOMB INVESTIGATION

Istanbul Bombers Were Turks, Investigators SayThe two suicide bombers who carried out Saturday's attack on synagogues in Istanbul were Turks who sympathized with al Qaeda and may have been trained outside the country by the terrorist network, Turkish and Israeli officials said Tuesday. (LA Times)

The attackers were identified as Mesut Cabuk, 29, and Gokhan Elaltuntas, 22.

REGIONAL REPORTS

South KoreaSouth Korea Probes Al Qaeda Threat Reports South Korea's intelligence agency said on Wednesday it was investigating a case in which a suspected member of Osama bin Laden's al Qaeda network had entered and left the country earlier this year, undetected by authorities. (Reuters)

Police Chief Says Al Qaeda Rumors Not True The chief of the Korean National Police Agency, Choi Key-moon, said Wednesday that rumors that an al Qaeda terrorist entered, and left, Korea are "not true," as far as he knew. (The Chosun Ilbo)

IndonesiaNew Terror Chief Planning Attacks The purported new military chief of a Southeast Asian terror group is among a handful of Indonesians in direct contact with al Qaeda and is now considered the most lethal terrorist in Asia, plotting fresh attacks in the region, officials told The Associated Press. (AP)

United Kingdom Palace Security Review Announced David Blunkett announces a security review after a lapse at Buckingham Palace ahead of President Bush's visit. (BBC)

U.K. to Make MI5 Web Site Its Outlet for Terror Tips Britain will make the secretive counter-espionage agency MI5 its public face for terror alerts with the launch next year of a Web site dedicated to threats on U.K. soil, a home office official told Reuters on Tuesday. (Reuters)