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What links have seven countries got with terror attacks?

Several countries around the world are protesting at the executive order signed by President Donald Trump which suspends the entry into the US of all nationals from seven countries, all of which are overwhelmingly Muslim. President Donald Trump holds up the executive order he signed on Friday, which bans individuals from seven mainly Muslim nations from entering the United States Mail Online has analysed all the terrorist attacks in Europe, including Turkey, since 9/11. No individuals from five of the countries on the list - Iran, Libya, Somalia, Sudan and Yemen - had been linked to any terrorist attacks in Europe in the last 15 years, although some could be linked to Islamist bases and training camps in Libya, Somalia and Yemen. Syria - 3 In 2007 Loa'i Mohammad Haj Bakr al-Saqa, a Syrian, was convicted of masterminding the November 2003 truck bombing of two synagogues in Istanbul, which killed 57 people. Libya - 0 But earlier this month US jets bombed an ISIS training camp near Sirte, Libya - the former home town of the late dictator Colonel Gaddafi - after intelligence linked it to Anis Amri, the Tunisian refugee who killed a lorry driver and 11 people at a Christmas market in Berlin last month.

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