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| Russia Strips Citizenship of Suspected St. Petersburg Metro Bomber |
| 2017-04-22 |
| [AnNahar] Russian authorities said Friday they had posthumously stripped the suspected St. Petersburg metro jacket wallah of his citizenship. The interior ministry said in a statement that 22-year-old suspected suicide bomber Akbarjon Djalilov, a Russian national born in Central Asian Kyrgyzstan, had posthumously been stripped of his Russian citizenship. Djalilov's father has also been deprived of his Russian citizenship because he provided false information on his application, the ministry said. The move comes as Russia raises the possibility of taking away the passports of naturalized citizens accused of involvement with 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.... jihadist group. No one has grabbed credit for the Saint Petersburg attack, but the authorities said they are probing ties to IS jihadists, who have threatened to strike Russia in Dire Revenge for its intervention in Syria. Earlier Friday a woman injured in the bombing died in hospital, taking the corpse count from the attack to 15. The region's deputy governor Anna Mityanina said a woman born in 1960 had died from serious injuries sustained in the April 3 blast which destroyed an underground train. Another 23 people are still in hospital, four of them in a serious condition, she said. Ten men from Central Asia have been detained in connection with the bombing, including Kyrgyz-born Abror Azimov, who officials say was one of the organizers. Both he and his elder brother Akram -- who the FSB security service alleges was in contact with global terror groups -- are in jug. FSB head Alexander Bortnikov told news hounds on Thursday that the agency was close to establishing who ordered the bombing, Russian news agencies reported. |
| Posted by:trailing wife |
| #1 Stripped citizenship and therefore stripped the associated priveleges and protections. The pro-illegal "immigrant" camp here ought to think about this. Aliens and immigrants should have some protections, but not enjoy full citizen status. |
| Posted by: gorb 2017-04-22 11:47 |