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Caucasus/Russia/Central Asia
4 suspected Islamic State group members detained near Moscow
2018-04-28
[Ynet] Russia's main intelligence agency says it has detained four men from a Siberian oil town who are 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 Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems....
 group and are suspected of plotting terror attacks in Moscow.

The FSB agency said Friday that the four members of the suspected IS "sleeper cell" were detained in the Moscow region after they traveled from Novy Urengoi, an oil town in western Siberia. The FSB said the men plotted attacks in Moscow and were receiving orders from IS members in Syria via a messaging app.

Twenty people were detained in Novy Urengoi on suspicion of aiding the group.

Russia has been providing air cover for Syrian Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneck al-Assad
Horror of Homs...
 since 2015, while thousands of its own citizens went off to Syria to join IS in fighting against Assad's government.
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