Russia says it thwarted terror attack, arrested 2 suspects
[Ynet] The Russian counterintelligence agency has announced the arrest of two suspected supporters of the Islamic State
...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems....
group who it says were planning a terror attack.
The FSB said Wednesday the two men were tossed in the clink
Keep yer hands where we can see 'em, if yez please!
in an apartment in Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk, a city on the Pacific island of Sakhalin.
It said one was a citizen of Russia and the other of one of the former Soviet republics in Central Asia. They were not identified.
The agency said a search of where they were living turned up a homemade bomb and ISIS propaganda literature.
Moscow says 4,500 Russian, ex-Soviet nationals in ISIS ranks
[Ynet] Up to 4,500 Russian and ex-Soviet nationals were fighting for ISIS in early 2015, the RIA news agency quoted Russian army official Sergei Rudskoy as saying on Wednesday.
Posted by: trailing wife 2017-04-27 |