[IsraelTimes] Russia’s security agencies arrest seven people suspected of preparing New Year’s terror attacks in Moscow on orders from 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 in Syria.
Russia’s main domestic security and counter-terrorism agency, the FSB, says its agents tossed in the calaboose
Maw! They're comin' to get me, Maw!
the suspects in the North Caucasus province of 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...
. The FSB says the suspects were preparing attacks with automatic weapons and explosives in crowded places.
Islamist Death Eaters in Dagestan have mounted frequent attacks on police and officials, and some have sworn allegiance to the Islamic State group.
| The Daily Mail has photos of the arrest here. Those of you who know about weapons will get more out of them than I did. |