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Police detain 15 radical Islamists in Moscow

Russia's interior ministry said Wednesday its agents had detained 15 radical Islamists in Moscow who belonged to a banned offshoot of the Al-Qaeda terror network.

27.11.2013

(AFP) Russia's interior ministry said Wednesday its agents had detained 15 radical Islamists in Moscow who belonged to a banned offshoot of the Al-Qaeda terror network.

The ministry said members of Takfir wal-Hijra, a group formed in Egypt in the 1960s and outlawed in Russia in 2010, had been discovered hiding weapons and explosives in their apartments but provided few other details.