Russia says it thwarted planned attack on synagogue

From Deutsche Welle

Russia’s Federal Security Service (FSB) said on Thursday that it had thwarted a planned “terrorist attack” on a Moscow synagogue, Russian news agencies reported.

The FSB said that a so-called “Islamic State” (IS) cell, based in Kaluga, situated southwest of Moscow, had planned on attacking Jewish worshippers.

“While being arrested, the terrorists put up armed resistance to the Russian FSB officers, and as a result were neutralized by return fire . . . Firearms, ammunition, as well as components for the manufacture of an improvised explosive device were found and seized,” the security service was quoted by the TASS news agency as saying in a statement.

Security services footage circulated by Zvezda news — run by the Russian Defense Ministry — showed FSB personnel searching a house in which the bodies of two men could be seen along with weapons, ammunition and knives.

The FSB said the men had been part of the Afghan branch of IS, but did not state their nationality.

It is not known if this plot is connected to the warning issued by the US and UK embassies this morning about an imminent terror attack today in Moscow.

The UK and US embassies in Russia have warned that a terrorist attack could take place in Moscow within the next 24 hours. The security alert, issued by the US embassy and repeated by the UK, urged American citizens to “avoid large gatherings over the next 48 hours”. The embassy said it is “monitoring reports that extremists have imminent plans to target large gatherings in Moscow, to include concerts,” but it did not specify what kind of threats it referred to, or who might be behind them.

The embassy also advised its citizens to “monitor local media for updates” and “be aware of your surroundings”.

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5 Responses

  1. While our leaders are doing all they can to drag us into a nuclear confrontation with Russia, a timely reminder of who the real enemy is.

  2. Huntington’s remarks remain quite aprops re the Islamist challenge to world pease everywhere:

    The Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of World Order
    Chapter 10: From Transition Wars to Fault Line Wars
    By Samuel P. Huntington, Simon & Schuster, New York, NY 10020

    “In all these places, [reference is to Middle East and Africa] the relations between Muslims and peoples of other civilizations — Catholic, Protestant, Orthodox, Hindu, Chinese, Buddhist, Jewish — have been generally antagonistic; most of these relations have been violent at some point in the past; many have been violent in the 1990s. Wherever one looks at the perimeter of Islam, Muslims have problems living peaceably with their neighbors. The question naturally rises as to whether this pattern of late-twentieth-century conflict between Muslim and non-Muslim groups is equally true of relations between groups from other civilizations. In fact, it is not. Muslims make up about one-fifth of the world’s population but in the 1990s they have been far more involved in intergroup violence than the people of any other civilization. The evidence is overwhelming. P. 256

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