Russia Claims Foiled Terrorist Attack at Bus Station, Detains Suspect Acting ‘Under Orders’ of Islamic State
Russia’s Federal Security Service (FSB) claims that it foiled a terrorist attack on a bus station and arrested one suspect in connection with the alleged plot.
Knewz.com has learned that the agency has since released footage of the arrest and a confession from the detainee.
Said footage, released to a state-owned media agency, depicts a bearded man making a purchase at a roadside vendor selling coils of cable and building equipment.
The footage then skips to the individual with his face blurred walking purposefully through a residential area with two plastic bags in his hands.
Thereafter, he can be seen photographing what is said to be a bus schedule inside a building using his cellphone before the video skips to him opening the twin doors of what appears to be a garage.
He is then violently tackled to the ground by camo-clad individuals and manhandled into an unmarked utility vehicle.
The video then shows him making a confession saying: “I joined the Islamic State, swore allegiance to ISIS, and planned to commit a terrorist act on its orders.”
The FSB has since also released a statement of its own.
“A terrorist act planned by a member of an international terrorist organization (ITO) banned in Russia, a native of one of the countries of the Central Asian region, was prevented in Stavropol Krai,” the Russian agency said.
“The terrorist swore allegiance to the head of the ITO and was preparing an attack on the transport infrastructure facilities of the city of Yessentuki using a homemade explosive device.”
It further stated that the individual “conducted reconnaissance of the city’s bus station, studied the time of mass gatherings of people and selected a place to plant the homemade explosive device, acquired the components, chemicals and striking elements necessary for its manufacture, which he placed in a pre-equipped hiding place in a rented garage.”
Russia’s state news agency, TASS, noted the detainee planned on escaping to Syria where he was to join the ranks of a terrorist organization after the attack had been executed.
Moscow is still reeling from the most recent attack on the Crocus City Hall where no less than 130 people died.
The perpetrators were alleged to have been caught and “detained”.
A report by Knewz.com at the time quoted Russian leader, Vladimir Putin, saying:
“All four direct perpetrators of the terrorist attack, all those who shot and killed people, were found and detained…”
“They tried to hide and moved towards Ukraine, where, according to preliminary data, a window was prepared for them from the Ukrainian side to cross the state border.”
The attack was said to be the largest since the Beslan School Siege in 2004 when disgruntled Chechen rebels took 1,100 hostage for three days.
The Putin administration opted for the sledgehammer over the scalpel and sent his troops in. The result was 334 deaths, 186 of whom were children.
Source » msn.com
