
Russia's interior ministry said Wednesday its agents had detained 14 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. It said the group had been funding its activities by "conducting general crime". Takfir wal-Hijra was quashed in Egypt in the 1970s but is believed to have cells linked to Al-Qaeda in several European and other countries. Russia remains on heightened alert ahead of the February 7-23 Winter Olympic Games in the Black Sea resort of Sochi that lies near the volatile North Caucasus region. A top guerrilla commander in the North Caucasus who has claimed responsibility for a string of deadly suicide bombings in Moscow has threatened to target the Sochi Games. Source: Arab Today
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