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| Leader, member of ISIS ‘sleeper cell' killed in police shootout |
| 2017-04-22 |
| Russia's National Anti-Terrorism Committee says the leader of an Islamic State "sleeper cell" and one of the cell's members have been killed in a shootout with police. The committee said in a statement Saturday that the shootout took place late the previous night in the Stavropol region, about 750 miles south of Moscow. Stavropol is adjacent to several majority-Muslim republics, including Chechnya where Islamic separatists fought an all-out war with Russian forces. The committee said the shooting broke out when police tried to stop an automobile and its occupants opened fire. It says the officers found bomb-making components in the car and later discovered IS literature at one of the suspects' residences "And a shuttergun!" |
| Posted by:Frank G |
| #1 Sleeper sleeps with the fishes |
| Posted by: Jumbo Ulomorong9378 2017-04-22 13:40 |