A suspected ISIS jihadi has been arrested in Turkey after allegedly plotting to down a US jet using a drone, police said today. Turkish cops swooped to detain the Russian national who they say was planning the terror attack against US forces operating out of the Incirlik air base, which is used by Nato forces. The US Air Force has used the base as a staging post for the air campaign against ISIS in Syria and Iraq since 2015. Officers reportedly moved to arrest Renad Bakiev when
surveillance showed him to be scouting the area ahead of his planned attack. During his interrogation, cops said he admitted to surveying the base for the atrocity. Bakiev also intended to attack the local Alevi community in Adana city, police alleged. Alevis – who ISIS regards as heretics – belong to an offshoot of Shia Islam and are the largest religious group in Turkey after Sunnis. READ MORE
