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IS says it was behind Saint Petersburg supermarket bombing
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 Allaharound with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not reallyMoslems.... group grabbed credit on Friday for a kaboom Wednesday that tore through a Saint Petersburg supermarket and maimed 14 people. "The attack that targeted a shopping center in Saint Petersburg the day before yesterday was carried out by an Islamic State-linked group," IS said in a statement via its propaganda agency Amaq. The homemade bomb went off in a locker at the supermarket on Wednesday evening, officials said. Officials said the bomb had the power equivalent to 200 grams of TNT. Anna Mityanina, vice governor of Saint Petersburg, which is Russia’s second city, said on Twitter that of the maimed, eight remained in hospital care. Five people declined to be hospitalized, she added. The kaboom occurred at around 6:45 p.m. local time as Russians geared up to celebrate the New Year ‐ the country’s biggest holiday ‐ followed by Russian Orthodox Christmas, which falls on January 7. In a sign of the severity of the situation, the case was overseen by Russia’s National Anti-Terror Committee even though authorities initially opened a probe into attempted murder. The blast comes after a suicide kaboom killed 15 people and maimed dozens on the Saint Petersburg metro in April. That bombing was claimed by a group linked to al-Qaeda which said it was a message to countries engaged in war with Moslems, a veiled reference to Russia’s military campaign in Syria. Earlier this month Russia’s FSB security service said it had placed in durance vile You have the right to remain silent... members of the Islamic State group who had planned to blow up the Kazan Cathedral, one of Saint Petersburg’s most famous landmarks, among other crowded places. The Kremlin has said that those attacks were prevented thanks to intelligence provided by America’s Central Intelligence Agency. Saint Petersburg, Russia’s former Imperial capital, will host World Cup matches next year. Posted by: trailing wife 2017-12-30 |
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