Russia takes seven alleged IS members

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Russia takes seven alleged IS members

Alleged members of the Terrormiliz “Islamic state” (IS) supposed attacks in Moscow, St. Petersburg and in the Ural region is planned. Seven Islamists were, according to Russian security authorities arrested.

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The group have terrorist attacks with homemade explosive devices planned, said the domestic intelligence service FSB in Moscow. In the case of the arrests in the city of Ekaterinburg in the Urals, there was a Sprengstoffwerkstatt, weapons, grenades, and books with Islamic content discovered.

The arrested were part of Russian citizens, some of them came from the former Soviet republics in Central Asia, reported the Agency Tass. The alleged leader of the group was from Turkey entered the country.

After the assassination, wanted the IS-followers to travel to Syria, to the side of the jihadis to fight, it said in a statement from the secret service. The security agencies have, therefore, proceedings against the group initiated.

Revenge for use in Syria?

May the alleged attack plans of Russia’s involvement in Syria in the context. Moscow has at the end of September started to become actively involved in the Syrian civil war to intervene. Russian fighter planes to take since then, the positions of the IS in the Bürgerkriegsland under attack. Russia is fighting on the side of Syria’s ruler Bashar al-Assad with the goal of the Islamists push back.

Debris the at the 31. October 2015 downed Russian machine

The IS has in the past already for this Russian intervention avenged: On 31. October was a Russian passenger airliner on the way from Egypt to Moscow over the Sinai explodes. All of the 224 occupants died. The Terrormiliz known to the stop.

nem/kle (dpa, rtr, afp)