| Submit your comments on this article | |||
| Caucasus/Russia/Central Asia | |||
| ISIS unit Islamic Bakkiya added to Russian terrorist list | |||
| 2024-12-03 | |||
| Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited [Regnum] Rosfinmonitoring has added the Islamic Bakkiya, which is a combat unit of ISIS (a terrorist organization whose activities are prohibited in the Russian Federation), to the list of terrorist organizations. This was reported on the agency’s website. The separate combat unit of the international terrorist organization Islamic State, the Islamic Bakkiya Jamaat, is number 517 on the list of terrorists and extremists.
On May 24, the Director of the Russian FSB, Alexander Bortnikov, stated that Islamists coordinated the actions of the terrorists who attacked the Crocus City Hall in Krasnogorsk, Moscow Region, on March 22 via the Internet. He noted that members of the ISIS branch, Vilayat Khorasan (a terrorist organization banned in the Russian Federation), who were in the Afghan-Pakistani zone, coordinated preparations for the terrorist attack, financing, attack, and escape of the terrorists. This was established during the investigation, including with the assistance of the special services of Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, and Uzbekistan. On December 2, nine defendants in the case of the terrorist attack at the Crocus City Hall concert hall were added to the list of terrorists and extremists of Rosfinmonitoring. They are natives of Tajikistan and Ingushetia. More from regnum.ru Five suspects in preparation of series of terrorist attacks arrested in Dagestan Five people are suspected of preparing a series of terrorist attacks in Dagestan, they have been placed under arrest, RIA Novosti reported on December 2. According to a source in the security forces, the group was organized in the Kizlyar region. Components for making a bomb were confiscated from the detainees. “They acquired components for making improvised explosive devices and stored them in a cache,” the source explained. The Soviet District Court of Makhachkala arrested them for two months, the article says. As reported by the Regnum news agency, in late November, law enforcement officers detained two residents of Dagestan suspected of preparing a terrorist attack in one of the republic's state institutions. According to the investigation, residents of the village of Kurush in the Khasavyurt district purchased components for making a bomb in June and wanted to detonate it in a state institution to destabilize the situation in the region. They did not have time to assemble the explosive device, as they were detained.
| |||
| Posted by:badanov |