Days after the Istanbul
airport massacre, reports emerged about the identities of the suicide
bombers as well as the organizer a man who a U.S. official says is a top
soldier in the ISIS war ministry.
Two of the three
assailants in the terror attack that killed 44 people at Istanbul's Ataturk Airport have been
identified as Rakim Bulgarov and Vadim Osmanov, according to Turkey's state
news agency Anadolu, citing an anonymous prosecution source.
The Friday report did not
identify the third attacker.
The report did not reveal
their nationalities. But officials have said they believe the three attackers
are from Russia, Uzbekistan and Kyrgyzstan, and entered Turkey a month ago from
Syria's ISIS stronghold of Raqqa.
Turkish
media reported that a man nicknamed "Akhmed One-Arm" organized the
attack.
While his whereabouts are
unclear, Chatayev's ties to jihadist activities are well-documented, McCaul
said.
"He's ... probably
the No. 1 enemy in the Northern Caucasus region of Russia. He's traveled to
Syria on many occasions and became one of the top lieutenants for the minister
of war for ISIS operations," he told CNN's Brianna Keilar.
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