Wednesday, 01 September 2004

ISLAMBULI BRIGADE TAKES RESPONSIBILITY FOR MOSCOW METRO STATION BOMBING

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The radical Islamic group Islambuli Brigade has claimed responsibility for the terrorist act near Moscow\'s Rizhskaya metro station, Arabic broadcaster Al Jazeera reported. The channel quoted a statement from the group which said that attacks on Russia will continue. Islambuli Brigade, which is supposedly tied with the international terrorist group Al Qaeda, earlier took responsibility for explosions on board two passenger planes, that killed 90 people, in the Rostov and Tula regions on August 24.
The radical Islamic group Islambuli Brigade has claimed responsibility for the terrorist act near Moscow\'s Rizhskaya metro station, Arabic broadcaster Al Jazeera reported. The channel quoted a statement from the group which said that attacks on Russia will continue. Islambuli Brigade, which is supposedly tied with the international terrorist group Al Qaeda, earlier took responsibility for explosions on board two passenger planes, that killed 90 people, in the Rostov and Tula regions on August 24. The group has named itself after Khaled Islambuli, a Egyptian soldier, who was at the head of the 1981 plot to kill the Egyptian president Anwar Sadat. In July, the Islambuli Brigade took responsibility for the attempt on the life of the Pakistani finance minister Shaukat Aziz. Shaukat Aziz was not hurt, but nine people died and twenty-five were wounded in that attempt. (Interfax)
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