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WORLD NEWS Tuesday 6 March 2018

Turkey detains 4 IS suspects in probe of US embassy threat

By SUZAN FRASER only.
Associated Press Security was high outside
ANKARA, Turkey (AP) — the U.S. embassy on Mon-
Turkish police detained four day, and police searched
Islamic State suspects as pedestrians before allow-
part of an investigation into ing them to enter the street
a possible attack on the where the embassy and
U.S. Embassy in Ankara, the other buildings are located.
country's state-run news The U.S. embassy said on its
agency reported on Mon- web page late on Sunday
day. that the mission would be
The arrests came as the closed due to a security
embassy was closed on threat, and urged U.S. citi-
Monday over an unspeci- zens to avoid the embassy
fied security threat. as well as large crowds.
The Anadolu Agency said It also advised citizens to
police detained four Iraqi "keep a low profile."
nationals in connection Embassy spokesman Da-
with the threat against vid Gainer said the mission
the embassy. Two of them would open on Tuesday A banner emblazoned with the Turkish flag hangs on a building across from the U.S. embassy,
were detained on a bus at but would not provide right, and reads: "No force can block our struggle against terrorism," in Ankara, Turkey, Monday,
March 5, 2018. Turkish police detained four Islamic State suspects as part of an investigation into
a security check on a high- visa services or services to a possible attack on the U.S. Embassy in Ankara, the country's state-run news agency reported on
way linking the Black Sea American citizens — in an Monday. The U.S. Embassy was closed on Monday over an unspecified security threat.
city of Samsun to Ankara. apparent measure aimed (AP Photo/Burhan Ozbilici)
Two others were detained at limiting visits and minimiz-
in Samsun by police acting ing risks to the public. security services in making U.S. embassy had shared " He said the U.S. diplo-
on information they provid- "We appreciate the con- our facilities as safe as pos- intelligence with Turkey's matic missions in Istanbul
ed, the report said. tinuing strong support we sible," Gainer said. intelligence and security and the southern city of
The agency identified the receive from the Turkish Turkish Deputy Prime Min- authorities, leading to "im- Adana remained open for
suspects by their first names National Police and Turkish ister Bekir Bozdag said the portant results. business.q

British media say former Russian spy in critical condition

By RAPHAEL SATTER an English city about 90 "They are currently being Freya Church as saying it be any further immediate
JO KEARNEY miles (145 kilometers) west treated for suspected ex- looked like the two peo- risk to public health."
SALISBURY, England (AP) of London. posure to an unknown sub- ple had taken "something "PHE understands that
— British media reported British media identified him stance. Both are currently quite strong." those exposed to the sub-
Monday that a former Rus- as Sergei Skripal, 66, who in a critical condition in in- "On the bench there was a stances have been de-
sian spy was in critical con- was convicted in Russia on tensive care," police said in couple, an older guy and a contaminated," the health
dition after coming into charges of spying for Brit- a statement. younger girl. She was sort of agency said.
contact with an "unknown ain and sentenced in 2006 The discovery of the uncon- leaned in on him. It looked Public records list Skripal as
substance," a case that im- to 13 years in prison. Skripal scious pair led to a dramat- like she had passed out, having an address in Salis-
mediately drew parallels was freed in 2010 as part of ic decontamination effort. maybe," Church said. bury.
to the poisoning of former a U.S.-Russian spy swap. Crews in billowing yellow "He was doing some Skripal served with Rus-
Russian agent Alexander Wiltshire Police, which is re- moon suits worked into the strange hand movements, sia's military intelligence,
Litvinenko. sponsible for the Salisbury night spraying down the looking up to the sky," she often known by its Russian-
Authorities did not identify area, only identified the street, and the Salisbury said. language acronym GRU,
the man, saying only that man and woman by their hospital's emergency room Public Health England said and retired in 1999. He
he and a woman were approximate ages and said was closed. in a statement that it had then worked at the For-
found unconscious Sunday they appeared to know The BBC, which first identi- only limited information eign Ministry until 2003 and
afternoon on a bench in a one another and "did not fied Skripal as one of the about the patients, but later became involved in
shopping mall in Salisbury, have any visible injuries." victims, quoted eyewitness there "doesn't appear to business.q