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Turkish national intelligence and police reported that the Islamic State of Iraq and the Sham is planning to attack targets inside Turkey with car bombs; it also said Turkish forces destroyed three ISIS vehicles inside the Syrian border on Jan. 28. According to the report, ISIS now controls the Azaz, Jarablus, and Yayladağı border posts and is fighting with the Islamic Front, which controls the Bab al-Hawa crossing near Hatay's Reyhanlı district. The activist group Greenpeace claimed that in Mersin unauthorized construction has begun on Turkey's first nuclear power plant.