Russia says Daesh implicated in foiled Moscow terror plot
Intelligence officials in Russia have announced that the Daesh Takfiri terror group had planned a major attack in the country, with confessions by members of a busted cell showing they were trained in the group’s camps in Syria.
In a statement released on Monday, Russia’s Federal Security Service (FSB) said that two members of a terror cell that was busted by Russian security forces a day earlier in the capital, Moscow, have confessed that they had received training from Daesh in Syria.
“It was determined that at a certain address in Moscow, six to 11 people have occasionally been, some of them had undergone military training in camps of Islamic State (Daesh) terrorists on Syrian territory and arrived in Russia long before the start of Russian military operation in that country,” the statement said, referring to an ongoing air campaign by Moscow against Daesh militants in Syria.
Since September 30, Russia has been conducting airstrikes on the positions of Daesh and other militant groups in Syria based on a request by the government in Damascus. Russian President Vladimir Putin had said before the attacks started that military action was needed to block the return of Russian nationals fighting alongside the ranks of Daesh in Syria.
The Monday communiqué, which did not mention how many people were detained in the Sunday operation, said that the suspects had been planning to carry out major attacks on Moscow’s public transport.
The FSB said that a ready-to-go bomb containing five kilograms of explosives was seized from the suspects during the raid by Russia's counterterrorism agency. It said the two suspects told security officers that they had received financial resources and elements of an improvised explosive device from their superiors in Daesh.
Russian news agencies also said Monday that law enforcers had blocked militants in two private houses in the village of Gazi-Yurt in the Russian North Caucasus republic of Ingushetia, saying the fighting between security forces and suspects still continues.
Local officials with the FSB also said that a counterterrorism operation was launched in the town of Karabulak, as well as the villages of Ekazhevo and Pliyevo and a few others in Ingushetia.
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