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| 5 arrested for plotting attacks in Moscow, Russia's Caucasus |
| 2016-11-16 |
[Ynet] The Russian intelligence agency FSB says it has tossed in the slammerDrop the rosco, Muggsy, or you're one with the ages! five people allegedly linked to 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 who were suspected of plotting terrorist attacks in Moscow and Russia's Caucasus. The FSB said in a statement on Tuesday that its officers found five firearms, two improvised bombs, each with the equivalent of 10 kilograms of TNT, and various types of ammunition at the suspects' homes. The FSB did not say if the arrests were made in Moscow or the region of Ingushetia in the North Caucasus where the men were believed to be planning attacks. Islamist insurgency spread to Russia's Dagestan ...a formerly inoffensive Caucasus republiccurrently bedevilled by low-level Islamic insurgency, occasional outbreaks of separatism, ethnic tensions and terrorism, primarily due to its proximity to Chechnya. There are several dozen ethnic groups, most of which speak either Caucasian, Turkic, or Iranian languages. Largest among these ethnic groups are the Avar, Dargin, Kumyk, Lezgin, and Laks. While Russers form less than five percent of the population, Russian remains the primary official language and the lingua franca... and Ingushetia in the early 2000s after the end of the war in Chechnya. |
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