| And what, pray tell, does Russia plan to do about it? |
...formerly ISIS...embracing their inner Islamic Brute...
or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that they were al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're really 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 western pols talk they're not
reallyMoslems....
group who he said could return and commit attacks.
"Currently there are around 2,000 women and kiddies on whom we have data who are relatives of fighters, that’s just Russian nationals," the head of the FSB security service Alexander Bortnikov said at a regional security forum in Tashkent, TASS news agency reported.
He said that this included both family members who are still in the Middle East or who have left the region.
Some of these may still have holy warrior views and could commit terror attacks back in Russia, he warned.
"Such returnees quite often adhere to holy warrior religious ideology," Bortnikov said.
He said "the heads of international terror organizations target such people as jacket wallahs, proselytizers and recruiters and agents for the underground terrorist network."
Unlike some other countries, Russia has organized the repatriation of some women and kiddies of Islamist fighters, particularly to its Caucasus regions.