Turkey ‘foils bomb attack on NATO summit’

TURKISH police yesterday said they had foiled a bomb plot targeting world leaders, including US President George Bush, at a NATO summit to be held in Istanbul next month.

Police arrested 16 men believed to belong to militant Muslim group Ansar al-Islam. They were detained on April 29 in the town of Bursa, 160 miles south of Istanbul.

The police also seized guns, explosives, bomb-making booklets and 4,000 compact discs featuring training instructions from al-Qaida leader Osama bin Laden.