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| Al-Qaeda militant accidentally detained in Moscow | |
| 2024-07-26 | |
| Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited. [Regnum] Police officers accidentally detained a native of Azerbaijan in Moscow, who turned out to be a militant of the Al-Qaeda group (a terrorist organization whose activities are banned in the Russian Federation). This was reported on July 25 by a source familiar with the situation. According to the informant, whose words were quoted by Izvestia, the detainee took part in military operations in Syria on the side of terrorists from 2012 to 2013.
According to the Telegram channel Mash, law enforcement officers detained the 37-year-old militant when they stopped him on Michurinsky Prospekt to check his documents. In 2019, a Baku court issued a warrant for the militant's arrest, but he managed to escape to Russia via Kazakhstan. As reported by the Regnum news agency, on July 15, Federal Security Service (FSB) officers detained two migrants from the Central Asian region in Omsk who had organized a collection of money to buy weapons for militants of the Islamic Katiba Tawhid Wal-Jihad (a terrorist organization whose activities are banned in the Russian Federation). The detainees regularly transferred money to the accounts of the international terrorist organization. On July 11, the FSB prevented an armed attack by a member of a terrorist organization banned in Russia on an Orthodox church in Adygea. The detainee turned out to be from one of the countries of the Central Asian region. Later, the man who was preparing the terrorist attack admitted that he was going to set fire to the Holy Dormition Cathedral in Maykop. He specified that he did this on the instructions of the terrorist organization "Islamic State" (a terrorist organization whose activities are banned in the Russian Federation). | |
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